Nation of Language - Rush & Fever

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Nation of Language - "Rush & Fever" from the 2020 self-released album Introduction, Presence.

It will come as no surprise that Brooklyn synth-pop band Nation Of Language found inspiration in early new wave — specifically, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s 1980 single “Electricity.” Their debut LP, titled Introduction, Presence, shimmers with synths and vocalist Ian Devaney's post-punk-inflected vocals. In a press release, Devaney explains:

"It occurred to me that a moment in time existed when it seemed everyone still had a kind of ‘beginner's mind’ about how synthesizers could be used and fit into the musical landscape. They were wielding this technology as a blunt instrument, and it felt like I had been given permission to do the same..."

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0:00.0	Oh, the first. Fresh love, leaving there,
0:15.0	leaving there,urs the heart.
0:25.0	Causen me.
0:30.0	Like a no bit spite you seen in there. Like a no bit spite you sitting there with your second hammerlays.
0:37.0	I looked at you with a Russian fever and melts my teeth away.
0:45.0	Silla, sinner, sinner, sakes,
0:48.0	what, why would I say, but I'm for?
0:52.0	Sinner, sinner. What would I say? I'm for?
0:53.0	Senna, sinner saints for the month.
0:57.0	Why would I say put out for? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. I say how can be able fun but I can never find how can people find
1:36.3	how can people find like you never find.
1:38.3	Now you're supposed to feel you're in heart.
1:45.0	But I could know it's fine you sitting there with your second
1:48.0	and your second hand my legs, I looked at she with a rush ping-belt my teeth away.
2:00.0	Several, several saints from my legs. Say the same thing's, what, say the stings from above.
2:05.0	Why would I say, but I'm for.
2:09.0	Say, I, say the same things from above.
2:13.0	Why would I say what I'm for.
2:16.0	Because I don't know when you couldn could find the time.
2:27.0	Save me, save me, my soul. I couldn't save my soul. I couldn't find you there.
2:39.0	What are these tasteless moments but wandering and wasted them?
2:47.0	Save for him, save my souls.
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