Label: ICR

2021年にUnited Dirterより4種のカラフルジャケットにて出版された瞬殺完売レア物件[Opium Cabaret]が拡張版仕様にてCD化！！カナダの女性SSWであるLynn Jacksonをボーカルゲストに招き、Steven Stapleton、Andrew Liles、Colin Potterの三者で仕上げた持続音タイトル。Nurse With Woundのドローン録音の傑作[Soliluquoy For Lilith]を彷彿させる一枚となっており、本再発版にはColin PotterがICスタジオで作り上げた2つの未発表曲[Pigment Drift]、[Zonked](計40分)を追加収録。ズブズブと濃密なスパイラルに引き込まれる事必至の4編。

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Contains the full Opium Cabaret album plus an additional 40 minutes previously unreleased studio material. Housed in deluxe full colour digipack with new art by Santini.

4 tracks, 74 minutes

Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles & Colin Potter

1. Floating Body

2. Sleep Sweeping Down

3. Pigment Drift

4. Zonked

Tracks 3 & 4 reassembled by Colin Potter & mastered at IC Studio, London 2021

REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL OPIUM ALBUM FROM DISCIPLINE MAGAZINE (No. 2 albums of the year):

Over two drone-afflicted tracks, this album harkens back to the moods explored and perfected in the drone masterpiece, Soliluquoy For Lilith. But rather than falling further down the endless spiral of Lilith, Opium Cabaret functions as a distorted simulation of a familiar experience.

The loud, colourful, and psychedelic album cover (with NWW’s signature collage work) seems fitting enough to represent a cabaret themed event. Although, a step inside reveals that the sounds present are a distant inebriated haze from any kind of conventional performance.

This is a record that moves in slow motion. It unfolds into a floating nothingness to appease broken minds so drenched in opiates, time and place are but frivolous footnotes in a wider narrative of distorted reality.

More than his other recent works, Stapleton’s latest effort hits a similar note to that of his ‘80s output. Speaking of this era, as the surviving acts from England’s esoteric underground of industrial stalwarts get fewer and fewer, the importance of new Nurse With Wound music cannot be understated.