6.8
Avg Score
3
Opinions
#38,343
All Time
10
Tracks
“Nation Of Language’s third album, ‘Strange Disciple’ opens with the deep, spatial synth-pop tryst ‘Weak In Your Light’. In it, frontman Ian Richard Devaney sings about tumultuous love, fumbling, being frantic and beleaguered, his subdued voice somehow displaying peak levels of yearning. The introduction speaks to the greater theme of the Brooklyn trio’s latest LP, which they’ve said deals with “in”
“The Brooklyn synth-pop trio expands its signature sound on its surprisingly idiosyncratic third album.”
“Strange Disciple, the third Nation of Language record, has been described by the trio (made up of Ian Devaney, Aidan Noell and Alex MacKay) as the ‘wayfarer’ album; a body of work which exists precisely nowhere, consisting of songs all written whilst in transit between different locations on their seemingly unending world tour. And indeed, this collection of cybernetic, synthy pop tunes do feel sl”
