a short history of decay Cassette + Candy Corn LP

Nothing have always been rulebreakers. Shoegaze renegades whove rebuilt the stereotypically lightweight genre in their own bloodyknuckled American image. Outlaw poets spilling existential dread on milewide canvasses of fuzz and reverb. Beginning as a Phillyborn bedroom solo project in 2010, Nothings music has always captured the full scale of the human condition, both the blaring anger and the whispering sadness. a short history of decay, Nothings fifth solo album and first for Run For Cover Records, widens that aperture even further, providing the most hidef rendering of Nothing to date.The band have never sounded this colossal, never felt this intimate, never been this honest. With the strongest arsenal in Nothings evershifting lineup locked in guitarist Doyle Martin Cloakroom, bassist Bobb Bruno Best Coast, drummer Zachary Jones MSC, Manslaughter 777, and third guitarist Cam Smith Ladder To God, also of Cloakroom singersongwriter Domenic Nicky Palermo knew he had the manpower to make the bands most ambitious record yet. Cowritten and produced with Whirr guitarist Nicholas Bassett, and with additional production and mixing work from Sonny Diperri DIIV, Julie, a short history of decay, is the most evolved musical statement in Nothings catalog. Songs like Cannibal World and Toothless Coal are cataclysmic lashings of mechanized industrialgaze that sound like My Bloody Valentine except more extreme. On the other end of the spectrum, the ornately morose Purple Strings boasts a beautiful string arrangement that includes harpist and twotime Nothing contributor Mary Lattimore. That baroque delicacy permeates other a short history of decay, highlights, particularly The Rain Dont Care, a lilting ballad that channels the worndown elegance of Mojave 3, and also Nerve Scales, a pattering bop that resembles Radiohead in its marriage of otherworldly atmosphere and mortal precision. Palermo calls the new record a final chapter. Not the end of Nothing, but the conclusion of a story that began with Nothings 2014 debut, Guilty of Everything another album about time, regret, and confronting uncomfortable truths and now resolves with a short history of decay,. As much a snapshot of Palermos past as it is a leap into Nothings future.