In fact, all the hallmarks of the band’s sound can be found here: there’s all-encompassing and sometimes even brutal drones made up of layers upon layers of guitar feedback, and they are often placed in front of rhythmic synthesizer lines and simple yet powerful drumming. Radiance of Shadows isn’t unlike anything else Nadja has done throughout their five or so years of making music. Known for creating formidable drone epics that are almost always creative and stunning, Radiance of Shadows may be the band’s most inaccessible album in a very inaccessible discography. Nadja is made up of workaholic Aidan Baker, who creates spectacular drone/ambient albums under his own name and is even known to publish a book of poetry from now and then, and Leah Buckareff, whose body of work is certainly less imposing than Baker’s. Nadja aren’t some pussy band you experience easily. You have to lie down on your bed, tell your Mom not to bother you for a few hours, and drift off with the monolithic and beautiful compositions this band can so effortlessly create. You, as lame as it sounds, have to experience a band like Nadja. There’s some great stuff from each of those genres, but you listen to those kinds of records, those records with more structure and melody, differently than you would of anything by Nadja. You can’t just really “listen” to a Nadja record in the same way you “listen” to a pop punk record, a hip-hop record, a power metal record, and so on. Review Summary: An experience that you should probably consider submitting your mind to almost immediately.
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