Originally released by NOTHingness Records in 2003 in a limited quantity of 120 copies, The End Records re-released the second Nadja album in 2008 with a different cover artwork and one LONG bonus track.
Nadja is a duo from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, lead by Aidan Baker who is quite well known within the experimental electronic scene, and Leah Buckareff whom I don’t believe plays in any other bands. Aidan and Leah’ music could probably be best described as ambient drone/doom metal with some shoegaze characteristics. Although only four songs are present the album runs for no less than seventy nine minutes and fifty five seconds. Needless to say these are long songs.
The music as you can imagine is slow but very heavy and mostly instrumental. It’s interesting to me the way the opener, ‘Sandskin’ has more of a traditional heavy doom vibe to it while the title track for example is mind crushingly heavy dark song with piano accompaniment and low growled vocals provided by Leah. ‘Slow Loss’ is again a very heavy song with lots of reverb present, but also plenty of calmer ambient drony moments that sort of fluctuate between these two moods. The untitled track on the other hand is almost purely ambient save for some heavy parts near the end of the song.
All in all this is a very good record and really one of the best drone/doom metal albums I’ve heard recently, even if it is a few years old. To date Nadja has released a lot of albums and EPs, and I do know I’ll definitely be checking them out in the near future. If you're into stuff like Sunn O))), Boris, Earth and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, then definitely check out Nadja!
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