Nerve Up

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Nerve Up
Lonelady - Nerve Up.jpg
Studio album by
Lonelady
Released22 February 2010
GenreIndie rock
Length40:22
LabelWarp
ProducerJulie Campbell and Guy Fixsen
Lonelady chronology
Nerve Up
(2010) 		Hinterland
(2015)

Nerve Up is the debut album by Lonelady, released by Warp on 22 February 2010.

Background[]

In an interview for Pop Matters with Guy Mankowski Julie Campbell stated that she wanted the album to "crackle with energy and clarity, and retain the intimacy of a home-recorded aesthetic". She elaborated on her artistic process, saying "some of those songs first existed as four-track home recordings; I was using minimal means and this informed the aesthetic. It is not, for example an intentionally bass-less record; I just didn’t, and don’t, think in terms of conservative/traditional arrangements. I started out with a crappy keyboard and a few other bits and pieces (but no bass guitar) and this small armoury of tools instilled a love of the economical, the stripped, the stark, the trebly and harsh."[1]

Reception[]

Nerve Up
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[2]
NME(9/10)[3]
Pitchfork Media(7.7/10)[4]
The Skinny4/5 stars[5]
Q4/5 stars[6]
The Quietus(8/10)[7]

David Raposa of Pitchfork Media awarded Nerve Up a 7.7 rating, praising the album's "wonderful wall-to-wall skittishness" and commenting on its "nervous, contagious energy".[4]NME reviewer John Doran celebrated "the arrival of a fresh and invigorating voice" and awarded a 9 out of 10 rating.[3] Nerve Up narrowly missed out on a Guardian First Album Award.[8]

Track listing[]

  1. "If Not Now"
  2. "Intuition"
  3. "Nerve Up"
  4. "Early the Haste Comes"
  5. "Marble"
  6. "Immaterial"
  7. "Cattletears"
  8. "Have No Past"
  9. "Army"
  10. "Fear No More"

References[]

  1. ^ Mankowski, Guy (May 6, 2015). "An Artist Living in an Edgeland: An Interview With LoneLady". PopMatters. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  2. ^ Phares, Heather. "Nerve Up - Lonelady". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Doran, John (February 22, 2010). "Album review: LoneLady - Nerve Up". NME.com. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Raposa, David (March 8, 2010). "Nerve Up album review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  5. ^ Ferguson, Euan (3 Feb 2010). "Lonelady - Nerve Up". theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  6. ^ Mullholland, Gary. "Album review: LoneLady - Nerve Up". www.qthemusic.com. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  7. ^ Rogers, Jude. "Nerve Up - Lonelady". www.thequietus.com. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  8. ^ Hann, Michael (December 24, 2010). "Guardian First Album Award". www.Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2010.

External links[]

Nerve Up at Discogs (list of releases)



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