''Nerve Up'' is the debut album by
Lonelady
Julie Campbell, known as LoneLady, is a music artist from Manchester, England, influenced by the post-punk era, but later integrating dance and funk influences. She first started making music on a 4-track cassette recorder in her towerblock flat i ...
, released by
Warp
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on 22 February 2010.
Background
In an interview for
Pop Matters
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with
Guy Mankowski
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Julie Campbell stated that she wanted the album to "crackle with energy and clarity, and retain the intimacy of a home-recorded aesthetic". She elaborated on her artistic process, saying "some of those songs first existed as four-track home recordings; I was using minimal means and this informed the aesthetic. It is not, for example an intentionally bass-less record; I just didn’t, and don’t, think in terms of conservative/traditional arrangements. I started out with a crappy keyboard and a few other bits and pieces (but no bass guitar) and this small armoury of tools instilled a love of the economical, the stripped, the stark, the trebly and harsh."
Reception
David Raposa of
Pitchfork Media
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awarded ''Nerve Up'' a 7.7 rating, praising the album's "wonderful wall-to-wall skittishness" and commenting on its "nervous, contagious energy".
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NME
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'' reviewer John Doran celebrated "the arrival of a fresh and invigorating voice" and awarded a 9 out of 10 rating.
''Nerve Up'' narrowly missed out on a Guardian First Album Award.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Lonelady
#"If Not Now" - 3:21
#"Intuition" - 3:28
#"Nerve Up" - 4:41
#"Early the Haste Comes" - 3:48
#"Marble" - 5:07
#"Immaterial" - 3:38
#"Cattletears" - 4:09
#"Have No Past" - 3:41
#"Army" - 3:01
#"Fear No More" - 5:35
Personnel
*Julie Campbell - artwork, photography
*Andrew Cheetham - drums
References
External links
Warp (record label) albums
Lonelady albums
2010 debut albums
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