Dagdrøm

Nadja's "rock" album, featuring live drums courtesy of Mac McNeilly from The Jesus Lizard. Mastered by James Plotkin. LP/CD available from Broken Spine Productions and special 2CD version exclusively available in Japan from Daymare Recordings. www.brokenspineprods.com www.daymarerecordings.com

The smoggy haze of fuzz and scuzz that permeates the Berlin-based doom-gaze duo's albums is so relentless and all-consuming that it starts to feel as comforting and commonplace as oxygen. Though by Nadja's standards, Dagdrøm starts off unusually serene.

But Dagdrøm showed they had one heck of a joker up their sleeve -- a live drummer replacing their drum machine, and said drummer being none other than Jesus Lizard veteran Mac McNeilly.

Of all the adjectives and sub-genres that have been employed to describe Nadja's experimetal, ambient dirge-gaze, "dreamsludge" is most rele...

There's been a lot of excited talk on the fuzz and buzz grapevine about the latest album from prolific drone/shoegaze metal two-piece Nadja.