Steve Albini, who produced Nina Nastasia's debut album, said that out of all the thousands of albums he's worked out, this is one of his personal favourites: "a record so simultaneously unassuming and grandiose that I can't really describe it, except in terms that would make it (and me) sound silly"
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once
That make ingrateful man!
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