Strange Disciple

Description

The Brooklyn band’s third album is one that is meant to invoke wandering, wondrous walks through city streets both foreign and familiar. In the three short years since their acclaimed debut, 2020’s ‘Introduction, Presence’, Nation of Language have sustained an increasing ascent from small, hyperlocal scenes to international stages and late-night television, while their musical evolution has embodied three distinct modes of moving through the world: lead singer and songwriter Ian Devaney imagines the band’s first album, ‘Introduction, Presence’, as taking place in a car, whereas second album ‘A Way Forward’ occurred on and as a locomotive, influenced by the chugging sound of krautrock. Now, as their first record to be fully created and released outside the confines of a pandemic-instilled lockdown, ‘Strange Disciple’ is centred around groove-driven songs and bouncing basslines that feel ambulatory and wayfaring, informed by the excitement of exploring new places the band never thought they would see on tour.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Weak in Your Light – Nation of Language
2. Sole Obsession – Nation of Language
3. Surely I Can’t Wait – Nation of Language
4. Swimming in the Shallow Sea – Nation of Language
5. Too Much, Enough – Nation of Language
6. Spare Me the Decision – Nation of Language
7. Sightseer – Nation of Language
8. Stumbling Still – Nation of Language
9. A New Goodbye – Nation of Language
10. I Will Never Leave – Nation of Language