You Follow Me

AlbumMay 28 / 200710 songs, 31m 23s
Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk
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8.6 / 10

This deeply communicative collaboration with virtuoso drummer Jim White-- featuring  Steve Albini's stark and sinewy production-- is the most solid and striking thing Nina Nastasia has ever released.

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Dirty Three's Jim White has drummed for Cat Power and PJ Harvey, so it's no shock that he ended up with Nina Nastasia. Nastasia's mood-stricken folk-rock fits neatly among her better-known peers, but unlike her other White-backed discs, Run To Ruin and On Leaving, the new You Follow Me grants the drummer equal…

What do you get when you add Dirty Three/Tren Brothers drummer Jim White to a Nina Nastasia record?

The album feels fully fleshed out and, ironically, more lively than Nastasia’s 2006 effort On Leaving.

8 / 10

In the right hands, a drum set can become a magical instrument.