This is Nick Hudson's latest EP and is far gentler that his work with Academy Of The Sun. This Ep also contains on of the best song titles of the year.
The ep opens with The Ballad of K69996 Roma that is a gentle classically influenced piano ballad of quite some beauty with a story to tell about Pasolini and his death on November 2 1975. The songs title is the registration number of the Alfa Romeo Pasolini was in at the time tragedy struck. Once the strings come in this becomes far more elegiac and will need a few listens to get everything Nick is singing about.
We Darken Horses has some dark almost spoken word vocals and skittery synth almost glitchcore backing. You Eat With Your Eyes has all sorts of odd sounds and some very deep bass drums as a car keeps speeding by and it opens out into a twisted goth tune momentarily before retreating into its more molecular avant garde shell.
If I get Killed It's 100% The Fault Of Alain Delon And His Godfather Francois Marcantoni is probably the best song title of 2021 and should probably be listened too while reading some of the parts of You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone the Biography of Nico that concerns Mr Delon's errant behavior, this has a very cool ambient feel to it with squelchy noises and babbling voices as you try to separate Alain Delon the actor/artist from Alain Delon the despicable man.
Nick then covers Robert Wyatt and Hugh Hoppers Amber And the Ambergrines and the fact it’s not an obvious cover choice works in it's favor, as this sounds like Nick has been listening to Rock Bottom and trying to treat the song in that way, this is a magnificent version. Oh and for the pedants among you this version adds the G in Ambergrines that isn't on the original ep.
A Congregation Of One has a sort of minimal techno percussion base that has sparing keyboards and other effects added to it.
Asymetric A Forgery is a plaintive piano ballad with percussive elements that almost sound like they come from a different tune but somehow work together ok.
The EP closes with The Florist a gentle song about well a flower shop and what Nick imagines goes on there and what happens to the flowers, buried deep in the mix seems to be a classical figure that's being re-invented by all the synths and other musical adornments into a magnificent musical bouquet.
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