All the way from PERTH, scotland, electro-rock act Nuclear Club returns with their atmospheric and inspired sound on THEIR BRAND-NEW album Black Cats Are Bad Luck. To be released in November, the fourth full-length from the band deals with themes of social alienation, technological shifts, the environment and accelerationism in a very simple and digestible manner.
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Influenced by the works of post-war artists like Francis Newton Souza and Elizabeth Frink, as well as architectural movements like Brutalism on its aesthetic, the album is an amalgamation of different ideas and brings interesting and pertinent issues to light.
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Black Cats Are Bad Luck is a much darker and political album than the band’s previous work, and it comes at the absolutely right time. Nuclear Club does an outstanding job in raising those thoughts and questions through their thought-provoking lyricism and storytelling, creating songs that resonate and stay with you way beyond their end. As the band navigates through somewhat heavy topics that include both historical facts as well as modern concerns, the quartet crafted an album made to make you think about important things – even if for the first time ever.
By writing about the impact of conservative traditions in Britain, such as the protest against fox hunting dealt with on the title track and “I Fought the Law”, the band shines a light on the question of how far time-honored traditions should still have a place in today’s modern society given their environmental backlash.
Nuclear Club also wonders about obsolete discoveries and inventions from the 20th Century and their negative impact on later generations, as explored in songs like “Paternoster” and album opener “Hexavalent Chromium”. The culture of excess and shallowness of the super-wealthy in today’s late-stage capitalism is also the subject of tracks like “Classical Spaceflight” and they mince no words on their on-point social critiques and observations, as they shouldn’t.
Amongst such important topics of conversation, the band still manages to push themselves into new and bolder sonic directions as well. The self-produced album was recorded between Perth and Glasgow, and shows the group refining their sound and polishing it into something that feels intimate and crystaline. The gentle dream pop-ish vocals clash perfectly against the intricate electronics of the instrumentations, that range from ambient trip-hop to house and trance inspirations that fit their new wave stylings incredibly well. Each track is its own universe, built to superior transcendence and catharsis – it’s both inviting and challenging, contributing greatly to the expansion of their sonic vocabulary.
On their fourth album, Nuclear Club emerges with relevant social commentary and sonic innovation, painting a landscape of what a modern-day political album could sound like. Those types of criticism are usually associated with punk and rock music, but the Scotland band proved once and for all that politics are all around us and we all should be talking about it. Black Cats Are Bad Luck is an album that constantly defies expectations and surprises the listeners with an in-depth look at pressing and important contemporary issues while finding room to grow artistically. It transforms itself into a record that stands as a fearless political statement.
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Black Cats Are Bad Luck by @thenuclearclub is an album that constantly defies expectations and surprises the listeners with an in-depth look at pressing and important contemporary issues while finding room to grow artistically.
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