Nature No Age for The Raw Nerves have

for The Raw Nerves have returned with their long-awaited sophomore record

But if the Pogues of the South sounds of "Cliché Guevara" and "You Look Like I Need a Drink" are any indication

Special Cases doesn’t succeed in being filler-free

this deluxe reissue finally gives Oldham the recognition he deserves for his influential work

a beatless autumnal drift fashioned from delicate keyboard textures and rich soaring guitar tones

Nature No Age for The Raw Nerves have. Five of the songs from NATURE are poems written by others Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Phillip Larkin. Four others A Bastard Like Me, Little Wolf, Seagulls of Seattle and The River Song are poems Kelly wrote and later put to music. The other three came along the usual way as sounds sung to chords that then turned into words, sometimes slowly, sometimes in a rush. What links them all is the natural world trees,