A Symphony Of Terror

Nosferatu D2

Genre: Alternative From: Croydon, United Kingdom

As we enter the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and the days turn colder the race for the Devil's album of the year is hotting up. In recent weeks we've had the amazing second album from The Wild Beasts the front runner being strongly challenged by the astounding Rosa Alchemica album , the new album from Listen Lisse and David Sylvian's new album. Well here comes another great album to make the decision just that little bit harder, 'we're gonna walk around this city with our headphones on to block out the noise' by the apparently long since defunct Nosferatu D2. The band's debut album which comes over two years since slacker rock superhero brothers Ben (Superman Revenge Squad) and Adam Parker (drums) moved onto other things comes highly recommended by none other than Gareth from Los Campesinos!

The album is 10 tracks of clattering lo-fi which sound like The Vichy Government pounding the Pavement looking for a Wedding Present while their world collapses all around them. Album opener 'Broken Tamagotchi' is an unholy, uncoordinated racket that agitates like a rattlesnake in a washing machine. 'A Footnote' is a sweetly rambunctious little ditty that recalls The Wedding Present before Steve Albini got his hands on them while 'Colonel Parker' is more experimental and emotional with an underlying hint of anger that suggests violence isn't far away.

As well as being a contender for title of the year 'I Killed Burt Bacharach' is a brilliantly simple, bitter lo-fi Gedgesque alternative ballad. I could go on and on lauding the brilliance of each track from the delicate charms of 'Flying Things and Pests' to the doleful and downright depressing It’s Christmas Time (For God’s Sake) but part of the fun is finding out for yourself so go try the tracks below and then hop on over to the Audio Antihero site and bag yourself a copy of the album.

Even more depressing than 'It's Christmas Time (For God's Sake)' is the thought that the band no longer exist and that this is a memorial rather than the launch of a career. They had so much to offer, the campaign for them to reform starts here!

Go Try

MP3 - Nosferatu D2 - Kids From Fame
MP3 - Nosferatu D2 - Springsteen
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are linked direct from the Nosferatu D2 website and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

and one I've featured before but if you missed the Devil's New Year Special here it is again enjoy...

MP3 -Nosferatu D2 - Older, Wiser, Sadder
If anyone from the IFPI is reading this track is linked direct from the Filthy Little Angels website and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

Go Buy












Buy Nosferatu D2 'we're gonna walk around this city with our headphones on to block out the noise' from Audio Antihero here.

Go Visit

Nosferatu D2 - Myspace // Last.FM
Label - Audio Anti Hero

Go View

Nosferatu D2
Flying Things & Pests

If you like Nosferatu D2 then you'll love Ben Parker's alter ego Superman Revenge Squad...

MP3 - Superman Revenge Squad - The Angriest Dog In The World
MP3 - Superman Revenge Squad - Idiot Food
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are linked direct from the Superman Revenge Squad Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

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