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Rancher Residence, Jackson, Wyoming, by Northworks Architects + Planners

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[stardust-dysania]

I think, despite everything we've said and discussed, you still hold me at arm's length and treat everything I say and do with caution. Perhaps subconsciously, but still.

I wonder if I can accept having a friend like that - someone whom I consider a one of my closest and best friends right now but doesn't really seem to accept me that way in return.

Maybe I'm just overthinking this. 

[squealermag-blog]

Nately's Whore's Kid Sister

Newcastle-based 5-piece Nately's Whore's Kid Sister (named after an unnamed character from Catch-22) excel in distancing themselves from their own influences. It is fairly easy, of course, to throw out a list of names with a band's press release, but in many cases this serves more as a hindrance than a benefit, muddying the waters or forcing a larger expectation.

NKWS mention several names, sure, but their music is more a distant relative of the collective middle ground of atmospheres offered by the band's music marker points than music devices borrowed from them. The weed-hazed repetition of Sleep, the twin galaxies of light and dark that Bjork so effortlessly jumps between (both names NKWS mention), the crushing, suffocating heaviness of Grief or early Boris and the dirtiness of Delta blues (Squealer's additions) - Nately's Whore's Kid Sister act like a Venn diagram between everything here, albeit one coloured with greys and black as opposed to the science-textbook primary colours.

A small shortcoming is that the longer form collections - self-released debut EP Ribs and its demo predecessor - occasionally seem like expansions of strong, solid material with weaker pieces. Forgiveable, certainly, but the sign of a potential shining through the immediate delivery.

<a href="http://nwkidsister.bandcamp.com/album/ribs" data-mce-href="http://nwkidsister.bandcamp.com/album/ribs">Ribs by Nately's Whore's Kid Sister</a>