If you’ve spent any time listening to the Aquarium Drunkard show via satellite lately, you’ll know that Michael Nau’s “No Quit” has brought us continued respite from the quickly thickening air and ever-rising temperatures. The Cumberland, MD-based maestro’s latest is the perfect summer elixir; his ethereal tenor kite-flying atop a gust of blown-out of organ, synthesizer and percussion. Like a lost Richard Swift gem. Is there any bigger compliment?
Category: Michael Nau
Cotton Jones :: Paranoid Cocoon
Few contemporary artists have graced these pages as often as Michael Nau. As Cotton Jones, Nau and his wife, Whitney McGraw, landed on our radar a decade ago with the […]
Michael Nau :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Michael Nau opens his new album, Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread, with a Wall of Sound ode to thinking you might know, but knowing you might not. “Now in […]
Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread :: Funny In Real Life
“Funny In Real Life” is the latest cut from the forthcoming self-titled Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread LP. Where lead single, “Less Than Positive,” was soaring with Spector-isms, “Funny” finds Nau and company easing off the throttle and settling […]
Some Strange Rain :: Michael Nau / A Mixtape
On his new ep The Load, Michael Nau chases his latest album, Some Twist , with another shot. The songs are drawn from the same batch as that full-length, but fully […]
Michael Nau :: Some Twist
Michael Nau’s latest long player, Some Twist , finds the Maryland native following the breezy, off-kilter charm of last year’s Mowing, his solo debut. And that is to say it’s great. Album […]
The Lagniappe Sessions: Michael Nau
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Last November we debuted a track off of Michael Nau’s solo […]
Michael Nau :: Winter Beat
Cotton Jones have been relatively quiet since their last studio album, 2010’s luminous and glacial Tall Hours in the Glowstream , a master recording of Cosmic Americana that placed the group in a category all their […]
