out for a while: Add N To (X) - Loud Like Nature [Mute]

Artist:
Add N To (X)

Title:
Loud Like Nature

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM204

Release Date:
21st October 2002

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Total All Out Water

02.
Electric Village

03.
Sheez Mine

04.
Invasion Of The Polaroid People

05.
Party Bag

06.
Quantum Leap

07.
Pink Light

08.
Up The Punks

09.
Take Me To Your Leader (Make Me Really Happy)

10.
Lick A Battery (Tongues Across The Terminals)

11.
. – U Baby

12.
Large Number

13.
All Night Lazy

Press Info:
Add N To (X) have announced details of a British tour in December, their first UK live shows for over a year.

The band are about to embark on a US tour throughout November having recently completed a successful tour of Europe in October.

One of the most chaotic, unpredictable and exciting live bands around, the dates coincide with the recent release of their brilliant fourth album “Loud Like Nature”, the follow up to 2000’s “Add Insult To Injury”.

Add N To (X) are set to return with a brilliant new album, “Loud Like Nature” on Mute on 21st October.

“Loud Like Nature”, their fourth long player and the follow up to 2000’s “Add Insult To Injury”, features 13 brand new tracks including the recent single ‘Take Me To Your Leader’. Add N To (X) have delivered their finest collection to date and proved, yet again, that they’re an edgier, more extrovert and coherently schizoid band than any other functioning band around.

Recorded by Ann Shenton, Barry 7 and Steve Claydon over the past twelve months in London, New York and Sheffield, the album features contributions from Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley, J.P. Buckle (National Bandit), drummers Joe Dilworth & Goldfrapp’s Rowan Oliver plus long time collaborator, Dean Honer. There is also a guest appearance from legendary American producer Kim Fowley who provides the spoken word piece to the eerie ‘Invasion Of The Polaroid People’.

“Loud Like Nature” is unlike any other album you will hear this year. It hints at everything from hip hop to ’50s rock ‘n’ roll and yet never settles on a recognisable sound. From the glamtronic opener ‘Total All Out Water’ to the frenzied, rock ‘n’ roll of ‘Sheez Mine’, the p-funk surrealism of ‘Party Bag’ and the pastoral analogue suite ‘Up The Punks’, the stomping single ‘Take Me To Your Leader’ and synth thrasher ‘Large Number’, the album gathers up the band’s history and spins it into gorgeously twisted nuggets.

Add N To (X) signed to Mute in 1998 shortly after the release of their debut album “On the Wires of Our Nerves” on the Satellite label. Later that year they released their first single for Mute, the epic ‘Little Black Rocks in the Sun’ and to coincide they played a live show in a disused nuclear bunker in Scotland. March 1999 saw the release of ‘Metal Fingers in My Body’, the first single to be lifted from their second album “Avant Hard”, extensive tours throughout Europe and America confirmed that they were one of the most exciting live bands around. “Add Insult To Injury” was released in October 2000 and was acclaimed as their best and most ambitious release to date. The last two years has seen them successfully combine recording and touring with their individual projects. Steve Claydon frequently shows his installation art in UK galleries, Ann Shenton publishes a satirical newspaper called the Dedworth Echo and Barry 7 runs New York based label Horseglue and club night Destroy It Yourself.

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