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Album: Nervous Cop
Label: 5 Rue Chistine
Artist: Nervous Cop

Composed mainly by Zach Hill and Greg Saunier on drums with Joanna Newsom on the harp and John Dieterich on the electronics, Nervous Cop is a exeprimental imrpov noise band, formed near the end the year 2001 or the start of 2002 after Zach asked Greg if he wanted to play togheter. they performed one live show in May 29, 2002 at capitol garage. then after a year and a half of recording, rerecording, remixing and reremixing, and including Joanna Newsom's Harp to the mix including some electronic noises in there too, Nervous Cop was finally ready for release, described by Zach as a "surrealistic master piece of musique concrete" and by Greg as a "total disaster", Nervous Cop was recived kinda mixed, which is to be expected from something this avant-garde and artistic, anyways after this, Nervous Cop went silent for the next 8 years, coming back in 2011 to play some live shows along with Deerhoof in their tour, recordings of these live shows have yet to surface sadly, though i think with some searching they can be found.

As for how this sounds, its indescribable honestly, i would love to spew some bullshit and throw random words at you to get some point across but to be honest, this is a piece of art that i think you should experience first hand and give your own explination of it, each person has something that can describe this, some people write it off as being trash, those people have to be ignore as they are clearly not seeing music as an art form, nervous cop is what to me shows how flexible the term music can really be, i think its also fair to say that this is a single compostition like Church Gone Wild, as in its meant to be played thru and thru instead of being separate tracks.

Anyways for my own description of the sound, its chaotic, its scary, starting with a disoritenting opera of some sort with a piano in pain, drums come in next constantly being tortured thru and thru out, its all so tense with all the simple electornic noises, beeps and boops with so much echo, tension build is real and as we go on the drums come more agressive, they stop being so silenced, its "Ill Pearls" and Nervous Cop is in full swng, the way these cymbals are distorted makes them just build up to the ambiance, they are so laggy, they last so long, you think you get what this is gonna be from now on up until... the harp gets introduced, the whole vibe changes, this instrumen'ts motives seem sinester, but as the track goes on, it becomes so indescribably beautiful, the harp seems to be friendly, it brings some semblance of cohesion into whatever fucked up world your ears ended up in, its a saviour, no matter how much these drums scream, it remains, the yin and yang of these 2 instruments are what i think make it so beutiful, they synergize yet are so against each other, just like how the Grasswarriors, Die and the Trailblazer saw the beauty that lies in conflict in "Destroying yourself is too accessible" (book by zach hill) you have aswell with this, drums finally fall silent, the harp remains, it seems it won right? the drums and electronics come back with a incredible punch so hard it sends the harp into the background, drums set themselfs as the only ruling force of this land, cymbals ring out like windy air, in this land: the drums are nature, and nature is cruel, a wave of indescribable noise comes thru, disorienting whatever knowlage you had left, electronics take the side of the drums in here, my favorite track "Nulflesh, Old Thirst" makes the electronic noises take stage, whatever machine is making these noises is computing a million miles an hour or is suffering through a meltdown, whatever the case you only know its screams, a final cry of the harp comes out as the drums destroy everything for one last time, or is, this world is still alive barely so, the second big bang takes place, a dog barks, its breaths are so tired, the drum beast now so powerfull it makes it self known, but something doesnt feel right, these drums are missing a piece of something, they are drowning, slowly you realize this, they arent how they used to be, the drums a fierce creature is dying, and this is its swan song, slowly it runs out of breath, this dog is dead, the harp so damaged, gives this beast a ceremony, atlast one final scream, one final bark, then, nothing...

my favorite tracks are: "Frank vs. Frank", "Colorchains of Outerspace" and specially "Nulflesh, Old Thirst"

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