NINA NASTASIA

thanks, MaresNest x

Thanks guys!

It was a little problematic, the idea of meeting her as I'm a big fan, it could only be a letdown? In truth, NN and Kennan were incredibly gracious and nice to us, we plied them both with whisky and they hung out in the studio and chatted with us and some London friends of theirs for a good while afterwards. I really can't say enough nice things about them. And, of course the added bonus of watching/listening to her perform, well...damn.

I spoke to her twice after gigs when she was milling around. one feels like one shouldn't say hello and thanks to artists but she was lovely and, i think, even appreciated it. i have to say that the second gig was really special though, maybe my favourite gig ever, in fact.

I was lucky enough to see her and Jim white perform as a duo on that tour, what a show

her & jim white clanking along is still some sort of transcendent moment in acoustic-guitar-player-presentation, to me, like it was some amazingly novel moment, & record, that demonstrated making something that's more than the sum of its parts. so good.

couldn't get the above link to work today, but found this one:

http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1769

the best

truth bomb^

she really is.

So how does Outlaster stack up?

i think it's great....though honestly i have my personal favorites but i think all her albums are of super high quality

I have "Dogs" on socialist records and really like it. Have always been looking for the album with Jim White, and saw Outlaster on vinyl recently for pretty cheap, like $9.99. I wasn't sure about it though. Always considered her a less alienating alternative to Mirah, and not in a bad way.

don't know mirah....outlaster on vinyl for $10 is a bargain

Oh! Give her a shot. Try the "Advisory Committee" album.

Got Outlaster on vinyl the other week. As scott mentions in an Outlaster thread, it sounds great and the packaging is fantastic. I used to be a total stan for the simpler arrangements in Dogs, but the strings in Outlaster won me over in the end. I have to add Dogs to the vinyls wanted list, though. I first heard Dogs while visiting a friend in the Audio Recording program at IU. A professor let him borrow it as an example of a great recording.

Dogs has been reissued at least once on vinyl, I bought it from her when she played in mpls w/Jim White

Reissued in Europe maybe? All of the copies on discogs ship from Germany/the Netherlands

yeah no idea, but there's no way it was the orig. press...unless she had a box leftoever that she brought on tour

the jim white record is kinda hard to find i think, now...i grabbed the last copy she had from the merch table and bummed everyone behind me out

btw, evan - mirah (the name) was bugging me and i realized a friend of mine put out a bunch of her records (or at least the vinyl versions)

Jim white collab on lp recently went for 80+ on eebs.

damn, i don't think i'd part w/it though

when amazon says it's "temporarily out of stock", does it really mean "probably out of stock forever"?

yeah probably gone...

honestly, sometimes if you have a decent bigger indie record store in your town you could call over and see if they have one collecting dust for list price, i've found stuff like that before

That's neat your friend put out some Mirah records! She's really great, though her last album was OK.

Passing on Outlaster for $9.99 is going to bug me like crazy, though it would only have saved me what $6 or so?

It's going to cost me at least $5 in metro to make a trip if it is still there so I don't know if it'll remain such a bargain.

jim white album is straight fire, big ol bango drums

yeah that record is the shit. i was gonna say outlaster was my fav (tbh there is something pretty about the first couple of records that turns me off a lil, all of which is buried by you follow me) but i feel like it's such an exemplary & singular example of a successful combination of two instruments, like sunship or something, that it earns extra points.

outlaster slays though. side two. the best instrumentation, some of her spookiest songs. like writing wakes, it's so confident, the first line is just such a stray intriguing opening image.

i like them all

dogs and blackened air maybe have a bit of a vibe where someone might have once described her as "alt country"? (though i think even then she's very distinctive, but she had more conventional elements to her songwriting that were shed as she went on)

Blackened air is some p dark shit. Love the strings on that one

At the risk of extreme challops, the moment where the instruments land on 'Run, All You' might be the single greatest entry in recorded music history.

i like them all

Me too! I realized that when I was writing a review of Outlaster -- she's made six good-to-great albums in a row. I have personal favorites, both albums and songs, but I think everything she's done is worth having.

the best

― omar little, Monday, October 22, 2012 6:47 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark

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i'm only one lp away from completing my NN discography but unfortch it's 'you follow me'.

yfm is the bomb

sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready

there was that weird show she did w/kim deal, which was supposedly 'a new project' but i never heard anything about it other than that show.

sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready

sorry schlump, i just needed to post something cos i'm eager for new material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUgWg7JE1K8

"sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready"

argh! yeah got excited there for a second.

ready for a new rekkid too

she keeps pretty quiet on the social media front so there's not much in the way of recent updates. her last five tweets are over the past 18 months and are either a heads-up about shows or a quick mourning for christopher hitchens.

the peel sessions on that blog got a takedown request from the record company with the promise of a proper release in the works. that was, what, 2 years ago now?

apologies to schlump and scott - this is not an announcement of new material just a wish for some. i need some new nina in my life.

she just played 1 x show
she/some record label emissary operating under the nastasia umbrella is on twitter
end of bulletin

I wonder what happened to that band she was going to do with Kim Deal

yeah i wonder what the ... deal ... ;) ... was with that

Dang, I saw the revive and thought "That's where I'm spending my iTunes Christmas gift certificate!"

If/when there's a new album, I hope she does a tour that brings her within driving distance of me. She's probably top of my haven't seen/want to see list.

http://www.sonicscoop.com/2014/04/15/steve-albini-mix-with-the-masters-seminar-announced-august-21-27/

^^apparently the session that will be done here is a new Nina Nastasia recording, per Albini :) :) :)

http://www.sonyalooney.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/girlhappy.jpg

http://mikedeslandesaudio.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/sa-1.jpg

?!

Yep there sure is - there's a (pretty great) live performance of Old Collapser up which really highlights that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg7hic4iBkE

Gah another ILX formatting flub. Anyway thanks NuNuNu and glad people are enjoying the album. There is another interview up on the Great American Folk Show - apparently with a new song (I haven't listened yet): https://news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/the-great-american-folk-show/2025-05-03/the-great-american-folk-show-episode-140. Also they're back on Conan Neutrino too!

Oh sweet, they've released an LP release of Creatures - https://jolielaidemusic.bandcamp.com/album/creatures. I didn't really expect that!

New album just anounced on instagram. Songs For a World Of Trouble. Comes out friday june 13 on Bandcamp only. 8 tracks (digital only) also includes e book with poems, stories etc....

I saw her open for Mono in December, such a great show but her set was too short, around 30 mins. She did play 4 new songs, one she dedicated to Steve Albini. Ive been wanting to put the set on yt or archive but haven't yet had the chance. Video isnt great(peoples heads were getting in the way) audio is better. Think I should try to get it up before new album? not sure if songs will be on there, don't know any of the titles for the new ones she played.

im loving the new Jolie Laide album. I wish they were playing more shows besides Canada. Listened to the JL podcast from Kreative Kontrol and they said theyre definitely going to do a third album!

Nice, thanks SR - I remember the title but didn't realise it'd come so soon. Friday the 13th!

I for one would love to see your recording of that set!

https://ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-for-a-world-of-trouble-listening-party

Listening party for the new album happening in 4 hours on Bandcamp. I think there'll be a question and answer session with Nina afterwards. Should be fun.

https://store.touchandgorecords.com/products/nina-nastasia-run-to-ruin-180-gram-blue-vinyl

Also, a 180 gram blue vinyl of Run to Ruin was released back in May, for anyone who isn't aware. Still a few copies left.

I just noticed the Jolie Laide albums I purchased on Bandcamp are downloadable as 24-bit/96kHz WAVs. That's basically Vinyl/DVD-Audio quality, as opposed to standard CD 16-bit/44.1kHz quality. Pretty cool. I must remember to save those albums on a DVD.

Standard CD 16-bit/44.1kHz is already higher quality than vinyl, in terms of fidelity and dynamic range.

Didn't think I'd make it, but the listening party last night worked well. Some fun chat with Nina on the subject of favourite clowns and horror movies.

Really liking World of Trouble. Terrific to hear songs we've only had live like Old Goat and A Blazing Fire get a proper release - the latter remains haunting and rather terrifying. Other songs immediately striking and memorable - sounds a lot like the Run to Ruin and On Leaving eras to me. Lovely multi-tracked vocals. Happiness is positively catchy!

Don't know where you're getting your information from @Vast Halo, but the higher the bitrate/frequency range, then the more improved the "fidelity". And the dynamic range of a recording is almost wholly determined during the recording/mixing/mastering stages. All the bitrate in the world would never improve the likes of Death Magnetic.

Jolie Laide have just released a new 3-track single, by the way. "In the Low Light". Not listened yet, but I'm assuming "Ranchlands Hum" is the same track played in one of the podcast interviews posted here a few months back.

https://jolielaidemusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-low-light

It is! In the Low Light sounding great to me, somewhere in between the first and second records

Don't know where you're getting your information from @Vast Halo, but the higher the bitrate/frequency range, then the more improved the "fidelity". And the dynamic range of a recording is almost wholly determined during the recording/mixing/mastering stages. All the bitrate in the world would never improve the likes of Death Magnetic.

They are right. The first number in 24-bit/96kHz is not bitrate, but bit depth. This determines the maximum dynamic range of the container - with 0 dBFS being the loudest it can record without clipping, different bit depths will determine how quiet the quietest sounds can go before being lost to quantisation noise. 16-bit depth is indistinguishable from 24-bit or 32-bit float if the file has been normalised with peaks at or close to 0 dBFS (you would only notice the difference if for some silly reason the final mix's peaks were barely audible, forcing you to crank up the volume, thus increasing the digital noise floor). 24 and 32-bit float files are only useful if you're going to mix and master the track (i.e. if you're going to change the levels, add compression, etc). They make absolutely no sense as a final, end-user format. 16-bit already provides a higher maximum dynamic range than vinyl.

The second number is the sample rate (i.e. how many times per second the sound wave is recorded, or "sampled"). It's mathematically proven that you can perfectly reconstitute a sound wave of a frequency that is as high as half your sampling rate, i.e. a CD can capture and reproduce up to 22kHz perfectly, which again is higher than what vinyl reproduces in practice.

Re: your comment about the dynamic range being determined during the recording/mixing/mastering, this is because a modern recording only uses a sliver of the dynamic range provided by the medium (which is not a bad thing at all - you don't want overly compressed stuff like Death Magnetic, but listening to a recording with to much dynamic range is a pain, no one wants an album to go from barely audible to deafening).

There was an old CD version of Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson I remember being crazy in terms of dynamic range. Classical albums on any format can have a huge range.

Another album will be available soon - an old recording that never got released!

I have another self released album in the works that will be available only on BandCamp relatively soon. The digital masters are done. I just need to get going on artwork. It’s a lost recording from quite awhile back that never got released. I’m excited to hear what you all think. It was one of those experimental projects.

https://ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/community

This Friday!

Hi there! I have another album I’m about to release from a 2010 recording session that never saw the light of day … until now … well by Friday. I’m working on getting everything up and running for BandCamp Friday! Very last minute but I’m going to try and make the deadline! This release of 9 songs will only be available on BandCamp. Stay tuned!

Seaside Recordings released today on bandcamp! A 2010 recording made at the Seaside Lounge in NY engineered by Charles Burst. New versions of lots of Blackened Air and Outlaster era songs. It sounds like Nina had a bit of tech trouble with the platform but made it in time for today!

https://ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/seaside-recordings

Really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdXzMXMckC0

She released a bunch of outtakes/lost recordings today for Bandcamp Friday. I'd heard/taped Family Name live, it's really good song.

Speaking of which, does anyone have a recording of her 2012-12-02 All Tomorrow's Parties show? I have most of it, but just realised it's missing a couple of tracks.

Love Family Name. Just checking these out, The Sandman is amazing

I might have that ATP one! Let me have a look through my mp3s...

Speaking of which, does anyone have a recording of her 2012-12-02 All Tomorrow's Parties show? I have most of it, but just realised it's missing a couple of tracks.

― Rairun, Friday, 6 March 2026 15:57 (three hours ago)

I don't, but I was there, it was something