December 02, 2019

No Bra's new album 'The Outside In' - "arty by appearing artless"

The Quietus has a very interesting review of 'The Outside In', about No Bra’s "queer blurring of intentionally artless delivery and (quote-unquote) ‘arty’ style. No Bra’s music appears artless; and it appears so precisely inasmuch as it’s arty. No Bra sounds roundly, soundly, flagrantly artless, and roundly, soundly, flagrantly arty. This paradox – it’s arty inasmuch as it’s artless – defines No Bra’s style". Still, although it might not seem that way, it's very listenable.