Nathan Fake - Providence

New album, his first since 2012's Steam Days, out on Ninja Tune in March.

Pre-ordered. Love some Nathan Fake.

Plus the Bleep write-up really gushes over this.

Hmm. Those 2 tunes make it sound like a mashup between Rustie and Neil Landstrumm. Quite poppy and vibrant.

I can see why Ninja Tune have picked up on this, quite a departure from previous Nathan Fake music.

Will reserve final judgement until I've heard some more.

What's happened to Border community?

hmmm, Is Nathan pandering to trends with this changeup? Sounds a bit whatevs and the tuning is all over the place and I usually like odd clashing notes.

when artist dont know what to do they just start making cheesy electro pop

u say that like making good accessible music that people can enjoy is a bad thing. sounds good to me.

but they do it in a bad way is the problem.

mr fingers introduction is the manual

  On 2/8/2017 at 10:45 PM, Kavinsky said:

when artist dont know what to do they just start making cheesy electro pop

Ye, esp. those stupid hihat rushes into the 1 on the o.p. track.  Totes douche chillage c'mon man you're above tropes like that.

Even the one above is straight Ninja Tune stock footage from 2008-present, shit you could put all their releases since then on shuffle and I'd be hard pressed to tell you who's who on a given track

still curios for his new record until then a nice slices interview with nathan the hobbit

Well not to keen of the new track as well but I adore Nathan Fake's Hard Island and other stuff.

Also read he had writers block for 2 years and didn't write a single tune, good to be so honest about it and come back strong.

Also "Steam Days" already sounded like a compilation of older tunes to me? So very excited for the whole thing...

  On 2/11/2017 at 12:14 PM, tokn said:

Well not to keen of the new track as well but I adore Nathan Fake's Hard Island and other stuff.

 

Also read he had writers block for 2 years and didn't write a single tune, good to be so honest about it and come back strong.

 

Also "Steam Days" already sounded like a compilation of older tunes to me? So very excited for the whole thing...

i find it a bit ridiculous to say that 2 years without making tunes is allready a "writing block" but ok.

at least the other 2 tracks are bangers

  On 3/1/2017 at 9:29 PM, DorkingtonPugsly said:

That was good.

This one is really nice

solid

this exists and is alright

some parts are freakin OUTSTANDING tho

A little meh to me on first listen

Really like the new LP and crunchy digital sound. Very coherent whereas Steam Days sounded like a compilation of older tunes to me. RA nailed it with "salty instead sweet". Though there are a lot of ambient interludes, which always seems lazy.

http://www.factmag.com/2017/03/12/nathan-fake-providence-interview/

Great article on FACT...except they repeatedly mix up Hard Islands with Steam Days.

On first listen, this is my favorite album by him (with Hard Islands a close second). Really adventurous stuff here.

yeah this is really good would write more just tired....tired of life 

  On 3/12/2017 at 11:33 PM, Extralife said:

http://www.factmag.com/2017/03/12/nathan-fake-providence-interview/

 

Great article on FACT...except they repeatedly mix up Hard Islands with Steam Days.

 

On first listen, this is my favorite album by him (with Hard Islands a close second). Really adventurous stuff here.

might be his best album yet ? thats very wrong but anyway strange record with some amazing and some very unnecessary tunes, but what i love about nathan is his honesty about how he creates tracks and his "cheap" gear which gives his music a romantic touch to me.

On first listen it seemed like a series of underdeveloped hardware jams, but damn it if this isn't really growing on me. It's definitely got something interesting going on.

  On 3/14/2017 at 10:34 AM, Kavinsky said:

 

  On 3/12/2017 at 11:33 PM, Extralife said:

http://www.factmag.com/2017/03/12/nathan-fake-providence-interview/

 

Great article on FACT...except they repeatedly mix up Hard Islands with Steam Days.

 

On first listen, this is my favorite album by him (with Hard Islands a close second). Really adventurous stuff here.

might be his best album yet ? thats very wrong but anyway strange record with some amazing and some very unnecessary tunes, but what i love about nathan is his honesty about how he creates tracks and his "cheap" gear which gives his music a romantic touch to me.

 

Yeah this was a really refreshing album imo compared to a lot of other hyped stuff by peers and others of the same notoriety in the press.