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Nurse with Wound
Nurse With Wound | The Bacteria Magnet
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GUSTAVO TURNER
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July 15, 2008
NURSE WITH WOUND, THE BACTERIA MAGNET
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Experimental elder statesman Steven Stapleton has just released
Huffin’ Rag Blues
, another intriguing full-length CD set of idiosyncratic compositions and sound collages.
Bacteria Magnet
is that record’s more radical companion piece, a limited-edition “mini album” pairing two remixes from the CD with two new tracks. The shorter work is an original riff on Stapleton’s obsession with film noir, soundtrack music, and the always rewarding (if you have a truly open mind) “Easy Listening” and “Pop Vocals” sections of used-record stores. This is cinematic pastiche at its best, similar to Barry Adamson’s phantasmal scores but with the dada knob tweaked way to the right. If opener “Cruisin for a Bruisin’ ” evokes a world where Tarantino’s
Death Proof
was scripted by J.G. Ballard, the rest is nothing if not pure Lynch, from the early-’90s Badalamenti vibe of “Thrill of Romance . . . ” (haunted by the souls of Peggy Lee, Julie London, and Jessica Rabbit) to closer “The Bottom Feeder,” an inland empire of debauched dolls doing the demonic frug to the strains of “Blues in the Night.”
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