Interview: Nadja’s Aidan Baker Discusses New Record, ‘Luminous Rot’

Luminous Rot—the latest full-length album from the ever-prolific drone-oriented duo Nadja—feels like a dream.  The record is a May drop from Southern Lord. Nadja, who are based in Berlin, turn here towards comparatively compact tunes, with feedback-drenched riffing that evokes shoegaze, alongside thudding percussion that suggests post-punk and industrial music. Tracks across Luminous Rot often prove captivatingly repetitious, as though Nadja are building out an uneasily shifting state of being to accompany their instrumentals.  Thanks to the resounding percussion and the harshly grooving guitars, the album consistently flows forward. Yet, rather than purely a sense of exploratory wonder, Nadja have also captured a sense of existential uncertainty, as though the fabric of reality itself has...

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