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Presents

by The Nature Strip

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    Beautiful vinyl edition of the second full-length Nature Strip album. Reverse-board printed cover and double-sided insert includes lyrics and band portraits.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in gatefold card wallet with fold-out 18-panel insert (double-sided 9 panel)

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  • Full Digital Discography

    11
    releases

    Get all 11 The Nature Strip releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Prime Time, Rainmaker, Beyond the Sirens (remix EP), I Cannot Deny You, Sixth Sense, Surgery, Past Pacific EP, Beetle Bones, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Take Me Over 03:37
2.
Bad 03:21
3.
Beautiful Brain 02:12
4.
Hippie Dribble 02:32
5.
Shoes 03:04
6.
King Biggie 03:41
7.
Dark Matter 04:46
8.
Cup of Tea 04:50
9.
Leaving The Lights On 02:15
10.
Deadly By Night 02:30
11.
The Geeks Or The Fuzz 05:12

about

Unlike the western shirt, trucker-cap wearing ultramen that populate so many 21st century independent bands, The Nature Strip wears no uniform and adheres to no musical genremaster but rather the goddess of melody and the dictates of groove and noise. How else to explain the unity found among the continents of styles here? You would think it would take more than a rowboat to get from the poppy bliss of “Bad” with its primitive synth, to the lo-fi chamber pop of “Beautiful Brain”, or from the breakfast menu of “Cup Of Tea” to the relentless drum machine groove of “Leaving The Lights On” before picking up the banjo of “Deadly By Night”. And yet it is somehow all of a piece. It is all found on The Nature Strip, pop detritus from the new wave era and beyond (XTC, Blondie, Talking Heads, the dB’s, Guided By Voices, Cheap Trick . . . Mental As Anything?) that has been refurbished and repurposed for modern usage.

“Cup Of Tea” and “Dark Matter” have already received some radio attention. Next cabs will be “Shoes” and “Bad”. If you miss one, do try to flag the next. The Nature Strip - singer-songwriters Peter Marley and John Encarnacao, along with percussive hero Jess Ciampa and keyboard professor Matt Langley - is always making return trips.

credits

released July 15, 2016

The Nature Strip:
Jess Ciampa – drums, percussion, backing vocals (all tracks except 8 and 9), trumpet (3)
John Encarnacao – vocals, guitars (all tracks), keyboards (2, 3, 8), drum machine (9), bass guitar (3, 10), keyboard bass (8)
Matt Langley – keyboards (4, 5, 7, 10, 11), bass guitar (6)
Peter Marley – vocals, bass guitar (all tracks except 3, 6, 8, 10), guitars (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10), percussion (4, 5, 6), banjo (10), drum programming and loops (7, 8), keyboards (8)

Guests:
Rachel Marley – backing vocals (2)
Zoe Carides, Dom White, Stephen Helmen, Chris Muir – backing vocals (4)
Michael de la Motte – backing vocals (5)
Steve Fitzmaurice – baritone sax (8)

Recorded by Peter Marley except basic tracks by Matt Fell and Rebecca Guilhaus (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11) and John Encarnacao (9).
Mixed by Peter Marley at The Lab and Surfside Studios except ‘Cup of Tea’ by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Studios.
Mastered by Mitchell Hart.

Front cover image © Ruth Maddison - ‘Christmas holiday with Bob’s family, Mermaid Beach, Queensland 1978’, hand-coloured photograph. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Back cover photograph by Paris Mason.
Portrait photography © 2015 by Adrian Cook - adriancookphotography.com
Front and back cover titles by John Encarnacao.
Artwork by Zoe Skinner.

c + p 2016 The Nature Strip. LP and CD issued under exclusive license by China Pig Records.

CHI 1611

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