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Very, very broadly speaking, there are two kinds of Nurse With Wound albums: the sprawling, immersive, evolving drone-type recordings – think Soliloquy for Lilith, Salt Marie Celeste – and the wild, surreal freak-outs. A Sucked Orange is a prime example of the latter.
Originally released by United Dairies at the end of the 1980s, A Sucked Orange has long been out of print, especially on vinyl. Infinite Fog is beyond happy to bring this singular work back as a 2LP picture-vinyl edition in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, a tape and a DigiCD.
Across 36 tracks, each clocking in anywhere from five seconds to just over four minutes, A Sucked Orange is a beautifully deranged ride through the unexpected: cracked miniatures, tape mutations, absurdist interruptions, phantom folk, industrial jokes, and sudden moments of strange beauty.
It is also a fine introduction to the weirdest side of the Stapleton sound palette. Far from being merely a collection of cutting-room leftovers, or a simple compilation of material available elsewhere like the Automating albums, A Sucked Orange stands as a complete and deeply peculiar Nurse With Wound statement in its own right. As with much of NWW’s work, themes and sounds appear here that the avid fan may recognise from older, often obscure releases, alongside glimpses of what was still future soundwork at the time of the album’s original release.
Unlike the record probably closest to it in concept, 1985’s Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion – which boasted a long list of infamous contributors – A Sucked Orange never came with a “who-did-what” insert. But it is safe to assume that most of England’s Hidden Reverse were on board for this. Even though the only clear credit goes to Sinan Leong of SPK, via “Sinan Sings for Her Chums,” the rest remains mysterious.
At the end of the day, as with all of Steven’s work, it is the sound that matters, not the ego. And the sound here will blow clear your ear trumpets, that’s for sure.
A Sucked Orange returns at last: strange, funny, unstable, grotesque, beautifully bizarre, and ready once again to rearrange the furniture inside your head.
A note about picture discs: Some people love this format, some don’t. Nurse With Wound are solidly in the “we love picture discs” camp, but please understand that picture discs are not an audiophile format, rather it’s a collectible format. This is especially true for the music of Nurse With Wound, with its wide stereo spread, swirling high frequencies, and deep droning basses. The more stereo and bass, the wider and deeper the grooves have to be to carry the sound to the needle. But picture discs have only a very thin plastic foil over the pictures, meaning it’s not vinyl, just plastic, similar to softdrink bottles. Picture discs can’t be pressed with deep and wide grooves; it’s not going to like a real vinyl LP. This is true for all picture discs, not just Nurse With Wound. To get the best sound quality you should choose the CD. For your collection just buy whatever you think looks best.
Tracklist
1. Pleasant Banjo Intro With Irritating Squeak
2. It’s All Gone Weird
3. Spiral Theme
4. Man Is the Animal
5. A Precise History of Industrial Music
6. Raymonde Fluffs It
7. Musical Bovine Spongiform (The Mad Cow Two-Step)
8. I’m a Frayed Knot
9. Sinan Sings for Her Chums
10. It Just Ain’t So
11. Nasal Hair
12. Rockette Morton Part One
13. Rockette Morton Part Two
14. Dogs Breath Rising
15. This Piano Can’t Think
16. Crack Up
17. Scissor Rock Bicycle Revelation
18. Dream of a Butterfly Inside the Skull of a Horse
19. Raymonde Cries A River
20. Fade Crack Down
21. Ritva Sings for the World
22. Peccadillo
23. Great-God-Father-Nieces
24. It Just Ain’t So (Slight Return)
25. A Little Missing Part of “Homotopy to Marie”
26. S.B.B. Dragged Through a Hedge Backwards
27. Scrapie
28. Flea Bite
29. Scrambled Egg Rebellion in the Smegma Department
30. Wisecrack
31. Praying Mantis
32. Its All Gone Weird/Nasal Hair
33. Automating (Some More)
34. It Just Ain’t So/In Heaven
35. Well What D’ya Know Henry
36. Relax
37. Vinyl mix – Side A
38. Vinyl mix – Side B
39. Vinyl mix – Side C
40. Vinyl mix – Side D
