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Backside (Dark Crystal Color Vinyl)
FORMAT
LP

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ROTOR 091C-LP ROTOR 091C-LP
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RELEASE DATE
5/8/2026

LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Dark crystal color vinyl. New studio album Backside by Nurse With Wound, includes unearthed fragments of Bladder Flask by Richard Rupenus, circa '80s, also released on CD in 2024. Cover art by Babs Santini. The paths of Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask first crossed in 1980 and the following year Bladder Flask's debut album One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling was distributed by United Dairies. Following the aborted project for a second Bladder Flask album, scheduled for 1981, some forty years later, Richard Rupenus approached Steven Stapleton to use fragments of old recordings he'd unearthed from "Bladder Flask", an invitation that Stapleton accepted, and rather than simply remixing or reworking existing Bladder Flask tracks, Steve Stapleton and Andrew Liles have succeeded in reinforcing Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask's sense of the absurd in this new opus "Backside".

"As the closest release style-wise to classic old NWW in decades, the album's opening track 'Backside' could almost be a relic of the early 1980s, full of squeaky and crunchy noises, big plate reverbs, lots of plunderphonics meets musique concrete type cut-up work, bizarre vocals and all sorts of unfathomable sonic elements. It's quite an intense listen, but totally enjoyable. 'Chernobyl Picnic' feels more like Cooloorta-era NWW, as it involves more use of extended tones, with lots of liberally chopped-up and totally messed about sounds, much of it fried and modulated in the most fascinating ways, a kind of harsher and more multi-faceted 'Soliloquy For Lilith.' An excellent release, especially for jaded old NWW fans who want more in the style of 'the good old days'" --Alan Freeman.