Review Revue: In the Nursery - Köda

In the Nursery must be one of the longest running and most prolific projects I've covered in this series, having released albums almost annually since 1983 (they've slowed down a bit in recent years, with only six full-length releases since 2005).

The idiosyncratic (is anyone else in the world classified by Wikipedia as neoclassical dark wave/martial industrial?)  Sheffield-based band seems to have had a fascinating career arc, beginning in UK's industrial music scene (which would explain their Wax Trax! affiliation), having their music featured everywhere from La Femme Nikita to a Game of Thrones trailer, and now creating and performing original soundtracks for classic silent films - one of which, A Page of Madness, has also been scored by Seattle's own Aono Jikken Ensemble. I sense an opportunity here for a pretty cool international screening/performance, if anyone wants to make that happen.

"All instrumental this time. Everything's connected together like a classical suite. Quite intriguing, & definitely not in the Wax Trax mold."

"Wax Trax is the US distributor. Their label is really Sweatbox. This is very much a Sweatbox record."

"Lovely."

"... At times."

"Right now H sucks. Put this in H so it won't suck anymore, at least 4 a couple weeks."

"In the Nursery have done much better."

"Very beautiful!"

"Heavenly. Yeah, push it up this is good! This is good!"

"Read the liner notes + you will (perhaps unfortunately) hate them." [I did not think to check out the liner notes while I was documenting this album cover, so this comment will have to remain a mystery and we will have to keep on not hating In the Nursery.]