View basket “Brothers In Arms” has been added to your basket. Nikki Nack tUnE-yArDs SKU: CAD3414 Barcode: 0652637341416 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD Released Date: 1st May 2014 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Includes 7" Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When Merrill Garbus first committed her tUnE-yArDs persona to tape, she used a simple dictaphone to capture every part and then lovingly pieced it all together using GarageBand. A laborious process partly enforced by tight finances, the resulting album ‘Bird-Brains’ (2009) was a sheer joy. A record so unique, it immediately set hearts racing; The Guardian, in their fivestar review, went as far as to call her “the find of the year.” At the same time, she enlisted Nate Brenner on bass to help her make tUnE-yArDs an unmissable live act. It worked. Word of mouth quickly spread, helping to fill every venue they played and to take the magic of ‘Bird-Brains’ across the world. With a record deal also in the bag, she was able to now concentrate on being a musician full time. Shortly after, Merrill relocated from Montreal to Oakland, California, a new home that would have a huge influence on the themes for her next record, the call to arms that was ‘w h o k i l l’ (2011). Recording in a studio for the first time, it showed ‘Bird-Brains’ to be no fluke. Lyrically, Garbus explored constructs of femininity and sexuality, marrying it with the threat of violence that lurks on the streets where she lives, all the while maintaining the energy of their show and translating it perfectly to record. Cropping up in nearly all end of year lists, it was topped off with ‘w h o k i l l’ named Album Of The Year in the Village Voice’s highly prestigious Pazz & Jop poll, based on the votes of 700 of America’s most notable music critics. After 18 months of near solid touring around the second album, Merrill gave herself some much-needed time off; “It was nice; I was trying to be healthy and have a good time,” she says. It was also the first time since embarking on life as tUnE-yArDs that she was without any new material in the works, allowing her to reflect on what’s gone before and where to next. “I thought, ‘OK, if I’m going to grow as an artist, I need to do this differently.’” Where the second album saw her stepping in to a studio proper for the first time, her third album, ‘Nikki Nack’, sees her enlist producers to help her achieve new heights on some tracks; “To ask Malay (Frank Ocean, Alicia Keys, Big Boi) and John Hill (Rihanna, Shakira, M.I.A.) for input, I had to let go of tUnE-yArDs being rigidly my production. I have a very specific vision for the sound of the band and I don’t think women producers get enough credit for doing their own stuff, so I was resistant – but we grew, Nate and I both, and the songs grew. And it turns out that’s what’s most important: the songs, not my ego.” A record that could only have been made by its creator, at heart it’s heavy yet still retains a sense of fun. This is explained in part by experiences in between records – like a life-affirming trip to Haiti (which she wrote extensively about for the online magazine written by the artists themselves, The Talkhouse) and her finally catching up with 80s kid’s TV programme ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ some 25 years since first broadcast, proving influential during the songwriting process. Her upbringing was also at the forefront of her mind in this period, shown by her subtle use of the traditional American music her parents raised her on to help colour her new creation (her dad’s old fiddle too makes an appearance). Experimentation is still key for tUnE-yArDs. Where the loop pedal and the saxophone were main components of the first and second record respectively, it’s the drum that takes centre stage here, augmented by greater use of synth and Nate’s growing prowess as a bassist. With its jump-rope chant title, the brilliantly playful ‘Nikki Nack’ continues the tUnE-yArDs story gloriously. LP format pressed onto translucent red vinyl. Artist tUnE-yArDs Genre Rock And Pop Label 4AD Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Includes 7" Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes 7" , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Find A New Way Water Fountain Time Of Dark Real Thing Look Around Hey Life Sink-O Why Do We Dine On The Tots? 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