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HEATWAVE

by Negative Nancies

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    HEATWAVE on pure black vinyl and encased in a colour card sleeve in a limited run of 300 LPs worldwide of which 100 are available in NZ.

    Includes unlimited streaming of HEATWAVE via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Finally, here's Negative Nancies HEATWAVE on compact disc just in time for the CD revival. It's packaged in a heavy duty gatefold card sleeve reproducing the glowing hot LP art. Why stream when you can hold this glorious object in your own hands, then carefully remove the disc from the warm natural fibre card sleeve, feeding the disc gently into your own CD player, and pressing 'play' to fill your world with the sound of music?

    Includes unlimited streaming of HEATWAVE via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $19.50 NZD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

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Pig In A Pen 06:00
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Banned 06:42
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Monkey Chest 03:55
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Monkey Chest 02:49
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Heatwave 07:22

about

Negative Nancies exist in their own universe. The songs evolve organically through rehearsal room experimentation. Amid the art-punk chaos an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism and moments of eerie psychedelic calm shine through the noise.

Negative Nancies don’t play by anyone’s rules. Songs unfold in unusual ways. Sombre glory, impish mischief. Wired anxiety, manic glee. It makes sense until it doesn’t any more. And vice versa. It’s not so much Dada as Dunedin-a, filtering observations about everyday human behaviour through a unique appreciation of the absurd and an organic wild-yeast approach to song creation and performance. They don’t want to be banned, they just want to play in a band.

Forbes Williams's recording here once again brings out all the fizzing unsteady danger and punk energy of the band. HEATWAVE sounds like it was recorded in a concrete basement with power cords running through puddles of water, everything crackling with live arcing electricity and a sense of impending danger.

"Veering more towards willful art-rock experimentation... than controlled and constrained post-punk, Heatwave offers as much of a challenge as it does rewards when it is gothic and gloomy... or twisting structures into some like oblique, electrostatic dance music..." Elsewhere

“a riot, a cavernous and beat-driven practice of experimentalism.... unique in its beautifully chaotic structure..." Hard of Hearing

“this crazy quilt of melodic noise glitch indie inventiveness with a self-enforced minimalism of tools –…is barnstormingly good, …Fun, irreverent, as measured as it is off its head, …it’s genius, idiosyncrasy for a deeper purpose.“ Stereo Embers

“Discordant, deconstructed art-punk sound that grinds and crawls in a collision of Suicide, queasy Lynchian discomfort and no wave Sonic Youth yelps and chants.” Doubtful Sounds

"I saw this band and I just fell in love with them. They are just interested in sound exploration, there's homage to punk sounds and punk rhythms. There's some good Dunedin fury in them." Robyn Malcolm

"I stumbled across them in this loft in Princes Street one afternoon sometime last year and they really blew my socks off. They were one of the best new things I've seen for ages. I totally endorse Negative Nancies..." Shayne Carter.

Heatwave is available in the UK/ Europe etc. from occultation.bandcamp.com

credits

released April 2, 2021

Tess Mackay - Casio keyboard, vocals
Emilie Smith - Drums, vocals
Mick Elborado – Guitar, vocals

Recorded at Jutland Street and mixed and mastered by Forbes Williams at Studio Otoitu, Dunedin
Cover image courtesy of S Leek
Graphic design Gilbert May/ POINT DESIGN

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Fishrider Records Dunedin, New Zealand

Dunedin, NZ 'arts & crafts' record label, since 2006. Bandcamp Daily said "a swath of bands with new wave and post-punk tendencies have dominated the label’s roster".

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