Nouvelle Vague - Should I Stay or Should I Go

Nouvelle Vague - Should I Stay or Should I Go20 years after the release of it's first eponymous album, which has since become a classic, the French group Nouvelle Vague is back with Should I Stay Or Should I Go. More than covers, Nouvelle Vague has been reinventing post punk classics since the early 2000s, retaining their melancholy while infusing them with an air of bossa nova, revealing along the way singers who have become iconic such as Camille or Phoebe Killdeer. Should I Stay Or Should I

reckless energy

and esteemed dancefloor cornerstone

The band was scheduled only to be a 'one-off' side project but has produced ten official studio albums and a number of live albums since

the album opens with the influential nine- minute mini- opera

Opening track "Stop Trying" was commissioned by NYC-based artist/designer Stefan Sagmeister (of Sagmeister & Walsh) as the theme song for the film and installation project "The Happy Show" and "The Happy Film"

this was the album that initially brought them to wider acclaim in the US

this set is beautifully packaged with photography by Tony Demin and Senor McGuire

The British shoegaze pop band Engineers was formed in London in 2003 by Mark Peters

Well let's have another little experiment : imagine we'd put members of the Ramones

the band has mixed in a decidedly more devastating tone to their already pointed metallic hardcore influenced extreme noise rock

the recordings were never meant for commercial release but were pressed on LP for the students

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