There’s certain music that just tunes me out of my surroundings and engulfs me. Songs that can’t be played as the backdrop to my life, instead they’re like sonic films that suck me into another world for a little while. That’s the kind of music that THE NAUSEA, solo project of multi-instrumentalist and composer Anju Singh (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Ahna, Grave Infestation), creates. The Nausea’s first full-length, Requiem, is classically beautiful while it inspires dread, overwhelms, astounds, and physically impacts the listener. I’m confronted by tones that rise in my throat like bile and course through my veins like adrenaline. These are songs that seem simple on their surface, but the layering of strings and electronics, singing violin and scathing noise, belies their complexity. It’s like through sound Singh is exploring death’s straightforwardness, it’s finality, but also its mystery and potential.
Requiem came out in June via Absurd Exposition and Buried in Slag and Debris — get it here. The Nausea is heading out on a European tour with Nadja starting September 25th, info below.
