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Artist......: Nadine Shah
Album.......: Holiday Destination
Label.......: 1965 Records
Genre.......: Rock
Catnr.......: OLIVE1033CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2017-11-04
Str.date....: 2017-08-25
Quality.....: 891kbps/44.1kHz/2 channels
Url.........: http://www.nadineshah.co.uk
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1. Place Like This 5:53
2. Holiday Destination 5:39
3. 2016 4:47
4. Out The Way 3:50
5. Yes Men 5:41
6. Evil 5:00
7. Ordinary 3:26
8. Relief 4:50
9. Mother Fighter 4:28
10. Jolly Sailor 6:31
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,: Nadine Shah's third album surveys the refugee crisis, Syrian :,
: families, gentrification, "a fascist in the White House," :
:' Islamophobia, and politicians' demonization of the north of ':
,: England. She does a lot of work in ten songs, but it rarely :,
: feels like it. On her first two albums, her theatrical voice :
:' oozed blood through fairly traditional guitar-band ':
,: arrangements. But on Holiday Destination, the setting is :,
: brittle, brooding post-punk, her singing lowered to a glowering :
:' monotone that makes more subtle use of her vocal power. It ':
,: sustains an unsettling mood rather than a series of bold-type :,
: headlines. :
:' ':
,: As a British Muslim woman with Norwegian and Pakistani heritage, :,
: Shah is all too familiar with the exclusionary rhetoric around :
:' concepts of æhome.' "Where would you have me go? I'm second ':
,: generation don't you know," she levels at racists who tell her :,
: to go back to where she came from on the intimidating "Out the :
:' Way." Her jagged saxophone and guitar rattle like old ':
,: machinery, evoking a knackered suspension unitùher bold :,
: North-Eastern accent and the smokestack aesthetic only deepening :
:' her connection with her industrial hometown. But as righteous ':
,: and exhilarating as Shah's protests are, she knows they're :,
: futile. "How can I compete with an ingrained thought?" she asks :
:' on the bittersweet "Evil." ':
,: :,
: In an unerringly compassionate record, Shah focuses on the :
:' scurrilous leaders and toxic groupthink behind these prejudices ':
,: rather than those who parrot them. She's well versed in how :,
: elite charlatans deploy their poison. Later in "Evil," she :
:' advises an opportunist hatemonger to "Tell your followers that ':
,: I'm crazy if it stops them questioning anymore." The corroded :,
: title track underpins a scene of refugees arriving to shores of :
:' angry tourists, their indignation stoked by "speakers grinning ':
,: in their address to the crowd, how capacities are brimming, but :,
: empty buildings all around." Coming from a personal angle, the :
:' clipped "2016" finds Shah alienated by her own body, invaded by ':
,: broodiness and anxiety. "Now my friends are all detoxing," she :,
: rues, a funny jibe at the cult of wellness and its inability to :
:' eradicate darker psychological toxins. ':
,: :,
: The sound of Holiday Destination mirrors that sense of being :
:' overtaken by insidious forces. These are long songs that lull ':
,: listeners into Shah's bleak world before delivering a joltùa :,
: guitar solo or tempo hairpinùthat makes you reconsider your :
:' surroundings. Only one track, "Yes Men," lacks intrigue: a ':
,: sodden torch song where her voice carries all the weight, though :,
: her accent lends distinction. "No way, man, you're surrounded by :
:' yes men," she sings, sounding dismissive and forlorn. As she ':
,: finds her world looking less familiar, the music also becomes :,
: more surreal. Monstrous backing vocals and playful percussion :
:' enliven the uncanny domestic setting of "Ordinary," and on ':
,: "Relief," creepy, Stereolab-indebted cabaret soundtracks the :,
: mundane becoming manic. :
:' ':
,: In the past, Shah has been compared to PJ Harvey, mostly for the :,
: bloodlust in her voice. But Holiday Destination has a fair :
:' amount in common with Harvey's last album, 2016's The Hope Six ':
,: Demolition Projectùthey're similar in tone and ambition, though :,
: Shah's personal investment in her themes gives her record an :
:' immediacy that was lacking in Harvey's dispassionate project. ':
,: Holiday Destination is always deeply felt, and no more so than :,
: on its last song, "Jolly Sailor," named for a pub in her :
:' hometown. Wobbling bass and dreamy synths channel the drunken ':
,: wooziness of Shah's lyrics, as she watches fathers and sons sing :,
: karaoke together, "toast to battles lost," "speak of holidays of :
:' work that pays." It's a tender portrait of the kind of ':
,: working-class community that politicians goad into fearing the :,
: other and voting against their best interests, only to be :
:' characterized as feckless drains on the economy themselves. ':
,: Holiday Destination is compellingly bleak, but Shah's defiance :,
: and willingness connect the dots to make it hopeful. :
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