The most immediately notable aspect of Teen Suicide’s latest offering – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’ – is that the production value is great. This is worth pointing out as the band initially made a name for themselves as a lo-fi project; ‘NDASH’ is the first time that Teen Suicide have released anything that wasn’t produced in-house. Far from using this as a reason to shed the layers of sonic texture that lend character to lo-fi production, Teen Suicide have taken the opportunity to fill the clean space of professional production with tightly controlled noise. The result is an open sound, sonically and emotionally, which churns with chaos and discord without ever becoming claustrophobic.
Lead single ‘Idiot’ outlines the album’s fundamental spirit. The opening off-mic “You ready?” gives the impression of a spontaneous live recording. Add in the thudding math and post-hardcore riff that dominates the song’s first half, and the dramatic change in dynamics that occurs in the…
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