In May, London indie folk duo nudista will put out their second EP, Nothing Makes Sense Until It Does, via Sad Club Records. We wrote about the release’s first single ‘Different Eyes’ back in October, describing how the song was “delivered with a little more verve and rough edges” compared to the previous nudista EP, with a killer chorus and country-gaze rock swagger enlivening the sincere emotion underneath. The song explored what Robbie Carman called “a distrust of my own narrative […] a gradual realisation that I have outgrown some previously held opinions,” and the sound dialled into the freedom gained from such acceptance.
Latest single ‘Waiting Line’ builds upon this spirit, ramping up the rhythm and packing all the heart we’ve come to expect to build something as cathartic as it is compassionate. “‘Waiting Line’ is about being frustrated with someone who is constantly trying to escape reality and scared to face life, constantly running away from it,” Pilar Matji Cabello explains, but instead of allowing the frustration to harden into anger, nudista take the opposite approach. “I just wanted to write a fun song that gets people shaken up a bit so you can dance off all your frustrations away.”
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Nothing Makes Sense Until It Does will be released by Sad Club Records on 16th May. Order it now from the nudista Bandcamp page.
Photo by Nat Faulkner