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Spare Me the Decision (Cutouts Remix)

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NoL Show Soundtrack

Our most replayed 🔁 songs of the moment.  10 tracks chosen by each of us.

NoL’s Obsessions

Gallop Hits

duh-duh | duh-duh-duh | duh-duh-duh | duh-duh-duh

Motorik Hits

Shuffle Hits

I’m studying these dance moves to do at work on the kitchen line

I&#39;ll turn 50 in 2 months. I&#39;m dancing and crying to this masterpiece filled with love, youth, emotion, pain and everything else that makes us human. I&#39;m instantly transported back to middle school on my way to class with my Sony Walkman blasting in my ears dreading having to turn them off and put them in my locker until I can play it again during my lunch. Thank you for honoring those glory days for me and connecting with kids who are the age today I was then. Brilliant work! And thanks for performing live on my local radio station where I discovered you...KEXP.

I'll turn 50 in 2 months. I'm dancing and crying to this masterpiece filled with love, youth, emotion, pain and everything else that makes us human. I'm instantly transported back to middle school on my way to class with my Sony Walkman blasting in my ears dreading having to turn them off and put them in my locker until I can play it again during my lunch. Thank you for honoring those glory days for me and connecting with kids who are the age today I was then. Brilliant work! And thanks for performing live on my local radio station where I discovered you...KEXP.

Kraftwerk, Blancmange, Depeche Mode &amp; OMD all over. With a proper modern twist. Got the &#39;A Way Forward&#39; album today on CD. Wonderful stuff. This isn&#39;t just 80&#39;s nostalgia, it&#39;s a new version of what them genius&#39;s did back then. This band really is refreshing to hear

Kraftwerk, Blancmange, Depeche Mode & OMD  all over. With a proper modern twist. Got the 'A Way Forward' album today on CD. Wonderful stuff. This isn't just 80's nostalgia, it's a new version of what them genius's did back then.
This band really is refreshing to hear

Underrated song. One scene from a film or series will bring people to this music video in years to come.

As a man who grew up in and obsessed with all things 80’s and living in a constant state of nostalgia, I love this! OMD’s first album reborn…….

As a man who grew up in and obsessed with all things 80’s and living in a constant state of nostalgia, I love this!
OMD’s first album reborn…….

Total takes me back to 1988 middle school Depeche Mode.

I am 55 years old.  A brilliant pop masterpiece that captures the joy and love of my youth in SoCal listening to KROQ and 91X.

Love the dancing...so me on a Friday evening glass of wine in hand dancing around the kitchen making dinner.

Big OMD /Mode influence circa 83 like the guys dancing its cool

Possibly the greatest tribute to 1982 I&#39;ve ever heard

Possibly the greatest tribute to 1982 I've ever heard

The world survived the pandemic and the universe brought us Nation of Language in reward. We come out the winners. Incredible talent. I’ve waited for this band for decades.

This band will probably be ruling the world at some point very soon

Heard for the first, second, third, fourth, and 55th time today.

Am I the only one that melts when Aiden‘s backing vocals chime in during the last chorus

This is better than the 80&#39;s music I heard in the 80&#39;s.  Singer&#39;s voice is beyond description.

This is better than the 80's music I heard in the 80's.  Singer's voice is beyond description.

I was just &quot;introduced&quot; to this band five days ago and have been listening non-stop since. I&#39;m 49 and when I listen to them I feel 15 again listening to my new wave cassettes! Best band I&#39;ve listened to in a very long time. Simply Amazing!

I was just "introduced" to this band five days ago and have been listening non-stop since. I'm 49 and when I listen to them I feel 15 again listening to my new wave cassettes! Best band I've listened to in a very long time. Simply Amazing!

BBC radio 6 brought me here What a melody What a voice...synths like I&#39;ve NEVER heard them

BBC radio 6 brought me here
What a melody
What a voice...synths like I've NEVER heard them

So much in love with this band!  They are like Devo, OMD, Joy Division all rolled up into one.

This track is as close to a &#39;modern classic&#39; as you&#39;ll probably ever find.

This track is as close to a 'modern classic' as you'll probably ever find.

I&#39;ve just discovered Nation of Language and they are on stuck on repeat on my Spotify. This tune is fantastic, especially from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cidhSoFte3k&amp;t=147">2:27</a>. It&#39;s like squeezing the best of the 80s into one song! Right up my street!

I've just discovered Nation of Language and they are on stuck on repeat on my Spotify.  This tune is fantastic, especially from 2:27. It's like squeezing the best of the 80s into one song! 

Right up my street!

The quality of the production on their music is amazing

Perfectly recreated feel of early 80s. OMD, Blancmange, pinch of Kraftwerk, something like 80s music from Canada or Australia. Great time machine effect - thank you guys! See you in 1982!

Sounds like Dreaming of Me by Depeche Mode and Enola Gay by OMD. Can I just say I love this band?!! Great job!!!!

One of the best bands I&#39;ve heard in years, absolutely love em!

One of the best bands I've heard in years, absolutely love em!

I now know where #3 subway goes in New York

This is like finding a time capsule from the ‘80s filled with unreleased music from OMD, early Depeche Mode, Erasure… I love every song I’ve listened to and can’t wait for the new album.

Ah... about time that my ears loved something again...I feel the soul of David Byrne...even though he is still alive...lol...love it!

Not only a great song, but their best, funniest video yet. I can&#39;t wait to get the album...

Not only a great song, but their best, funniest video yet. I can't wait to get the album...

The band ticks all the right boxes. It&#39;s a brilliant feeling to discover that the eighties music is still alive. The band&#39;s three albums are indeed brilliant. Well done Brooklyn ❤

The band ticks all the right boxes. It's a brilliant feeling to discover that the eighties music is still alive. The band's three albums are indeed brilliant. Well done Brooklyn ❤

London, Jan 2022

The Grey Commute

Music Video for "This Fractured Mind" from the album A Way Forward, out November 5 2021
Pre-order at https://www.nationoflanguage.com
On tour this Fall: https://www.nationoflanguage.com/events

Video:
Directed by James Thomson

Song:
Written by Nation of Language
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio
Mastered by Heba Kadry


Reeling from the moment
I stumbled on the life we left behind
Crippling innuendo
Unaffiliated but waiting on the side

Drew a line
Slightly undermined
But I want to find
Meaning, motion
And help me out
I can’t seem to dream about
Anything I can defend
I wonder now and then

D’you think that I could simulate 
My life, but done a better way
In this fractured mind
I get to feeling turned around
And turned around again

Blinding lights a-flashing
Down the Garden State Parkway of your mind
One last call for alcohol
A night that’s for the books and then you die

Faster now
Spiraling and crashing now
Waking on the cold hard ground
Worth it, it’s worth it
Perpetual 
Pseudo-intellectual 
Kicking ‘round your town again
I wonder now and then

D’you think that I could simulate 
My life, but done a better way
In this fractured mind
I get to feeling turned around
And turned around again

I’m not the one
Can you believe I’m not the one
Staring out the window
At every living thing I’m passing by
We’ve reached the end
Standing on the edge of it
Thinking back I can’t complain
But I wonder now and then

D’you think that I could simulate 
My life, but done a better way
In this fractured mind
I get to feeling turned around
And turned around again

Nation of Language - This Fractured Mind [Official Music Video]

Music Video for "Across That Fine Line" from the new album A Way Forward, out now.
Pre-order at https://www.nationoflanguage.com
On tour: https://www.nationoflanguage.com/events

Video:
Filmed and Edited by Nation of Language

Song:
Written by Nation of Language
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Nation of Language - Across That Fine Line [Official Lyric Video]

Music Video for "The Grey Commute" from the album A Way Forward, out November 5 2021
Pre-order at https://www.nationoflanguage.com
On tour now: https://www.nationoflanguage.com/events

Video:
Directed by Gary Canino

Song:
Written by Nation of Language
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio
Mastered by Heba Kadry


I was in love
That was enough
I swear to god
I’m coming apart
Cut up

Eyeing the mask
Singing at last
Consume and collapse
It’s violence
Violence

Broken hands,
Begging at the altar of the grey commute
Some of the weight
We can’t carry it

Hand on the wall
Reading it wrong
I look around but
They covered us
Covered, cut up

Promising the world if we only bear the cost, yeah
Picking out the change from your purse and your pockets

Broken hands,
Begging at the altar of the grey commute
So much so, its untenable 
Broken hands,
Praying to see if there’s someone to remove
Some of the weight
We can’t carry it

And there’s a foot on your throat
That you’re fighting to undermine
There’s gonna come a time
They’ll get what they’re owed
It’s a crime

Nation of Language - The Grey Commute [Official Music Video]

Music video for "On Division St" from the debut album Introduction, Presence

Vinyl available at www.nationoflanguage.com
IG: @nationoflanguage

Video:
Directed by James Thomson
Featuring Wisha Kungsanant

Song:
Written by Nation of Language
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Nation of Language - On Division St [Official Music Video]

From the forthcoming album Strange Disciple - Out Sept 15th.
Pre-order: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple

Nation of Language - Weak In Your Light

From the forthcoming album Strange Disciple. Released September 15th
Pre-order: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple 

Stream/Download Sole Obsession: https://ffm.to/sole-obsession

Ian Richard Devaney
Aidan Noell
Alex MacKay
Euan Lathrop as the Disciple

Directed by John MacKay
Producer: Siân Lathrop
DP: Cece Chan
1st AC: Haitao Zeng
2nd AC: Lily Nordheimer
Art Director: Astrid Terrazas
Editor: Patrick Drummond
Colorist: Zach Chalmers
Catering by Ian Salazar

Processed by Metro NY


Sole Obsession written by Nation of Language
Produced by Nick Millhiser
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

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You promise not to run away
I promise not to overplay my card
Feign survival
I must stop limiting myself
You and your sensational soul
Slowly reframing our roles:
Empty idol, strange disciple

I float across the temple grounds
Three whole years from side to side
To only seek and never find

My sole obsession
Finally I feel it fading
Walk me home and walk away
Sole obsession
Suddenly a different shading
Walk me home and walk away

Too far along to operate
Don’t offer me this measured attention
End the cycle
I must stop limiting myself
You and your sensational soul
Ornamentation and all
Empty idol, strange disciple

My sole obsession
Finally I feel it fading
Walk me home and walk away
Sole obsession
Subtly I see it changing
Walk me home and walk away
Walk me home and walk away

Nation of Language - Sole Obsession [Official Music Video]

From the debut album Introduction, Presence

Nation of Language - The Wall & I [Official Music Video]

From the debut album Introduction, Presence
Produced by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry

I wander off on
some kind of vision of sunlight
but our hands fall
from your left
from my right

so you go back to church to reclaim the feeling
you say you don’t understand why
and you spend extra time standing naked in the mirror
when you wanna wear something nice
and it’s September again
flipping through the same old books
but you’re reading less
and it’s September again
I don’t mind

I’m gazing upon
stained glass and ceilings of pure white
the choir calls
from the back
and it’s nice

so you go back to church to reclaim the feeling
you say you don’t understand why
and you spend extra time standing naked in the mirror
when you wanna wear something nice
and it’s September again
flipping through the same old books
but you’re reading less
and it’s September again
I don’t mind

now you’ve got to know
you move in cascading light

oncoming autumn
you can’t remember the last time
a life so long
and you fade
and it’s fine

so you go back to church to reclaim the feeling
you say you don’t understand why
and you spend all your time standing naked in the mirror
when you wanna wear something nice
and it’s September again
flipping through the same old books
but you’re reading less
and it’s September again
I don’t mind

Nation of Language - September Again

Stream/Download: https://nation-of-language.ffm.to/fromthehill

Directed by John MacKay
Cinematography - John MacKay, Penina Warren, Cece Chan
Editing - John MacKay

Lyrics:

In a park alone
So suddenly
You get swept aside
With friends like these
From the hill I see them passing
From the hill I see the rivers freeze

Everyone for themselves 
Then it comes apart

And I want the days
When I had no shame
Coming by the house
Calling out my name
You were always walking over
You were always walking over me

Everyone for themselves 
Then it comes apart

We're a long way from the easy days
A long way from the easy days
We're a long way from the easy days of old

You were always walking over me

Everyone for themselves 
Then it comes apart

Nation of Language - From The Hill

Music video for "Rush & Fever" from the debut album Introduction, Presence

Vinyl available at www.nationoflanguage.com

Video:
Filmed by Angel Labarthe del Solar
Edited by Nation of Language

Song:
Written by Nation of Language 
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio 
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Nation of Language - Rush & Fever [Official Lyric Video]

From the forthcoming album Strange Disciple. Released September 15th Pre-order: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple 
Stream/Download Too Much, Enough: https://ffm.to/nol-too-much-enough

Directed by Robert Kolodny
A House of Nod Production
Produced by Taylor Medrano
First AC: Mike Cicchetti
Gaffer: Summer Sierra
Stylist: Katerina Packis
Key PA: John MacKay
VFX Artist: Herman Zupan
Post by House of Nod

Starring:

Ruby Wolf
Jimmi Simpson
Reggie Watts
Adam Green
Kevin Morby
Robert Greene
Greg Rutkin
Carolyn Funk
Nolan Kelly
Ian “Skinny” Salazar
& The Strange Disciple
Sarah Beth Tomberlin
Astrid Terrazas
Jessica Gurewitz
Auden Galbraith
Crystal Huang
Jacob Moeller
April Clyburne-Sherin
Daniel Wu
Jaden Gunn
Jingling Liu

LYRICS

I pretend it’s fine - really alright
But I hear the sighing 
Bleeding into the room
Prone to selfish revision 
The details may be light
Destination’s known
It comes as no surprise
The collision
I can brace myself for the alarm
The decision
I debate myself, break myself
All for what?


So predictable
Too much, enough
A talk show that cannot help but hurt
Swimming in sweat
Television set
Too much, enough
Too much, enough
Too much, enough


Experts standing by
Ten at a time
Kindly remind me 
To take some time
I’d like to breathe and consider
A gentler redesign
Expectations low
But that’s not what I like
It’s just


So predictable
Too much, enough
A talk show that cannot help but hurt
Swimming in sweat
Television set
Too much, enough
Too much, enough
Too much, enough 


Neverending ride
Open my eyes
If I need reminding

Nation of Language - Too Much, Enough (Official Video)

Music Video for "Wounds of Love" from the album A Way Forward, out November 5 2021
Pre-order at https://www.nationoflanguage.com
On tour this Fall: https://www.nationoflanguage.com/events

Video:
Filmed and Edited by Nation of Language
Featuring Wisha Kungsanant, James Thomson, Joe Vescio, Taylor Medrano, Michael Sue-Poi, and Aidan Noell.

Song:
Written by Nation of Language
Produced and mixed by Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park Studio
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Nation of Language - Wounds of Love [Official Lyric Video]

From the forthcoming album Introduction, Presence
Produced by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry


and that’s fine
I’m wasting away
I took the long road home
and it never paid off for me
but to feel the proof 
as I’m walking around the city 
in a torrent of rain 

to feel the proof
as I’m walking around the city
in a torrent of rain
but you can see for yourself
I’m not rushing away

‘cause I’ve been waiting for a long long time,
watching
I’ve been waiting for a long long time

by the second day, the mystery was gone
and ten thousand lights would shine
on nothing else
but you can see for yourself
I’m not rushing away

cause I’ve been waiting for a long long time, watching 
I’ve been waiting for a long long time

I can build a world around me
underneath the light 
and another and another
I can build a world around me
underneath the light

there’s people on the phone
you need to tell them what you want
laying on your side
your words have never felt so far off

Nation of Language - Tournament

From the debut album Introduction, Presence
Produced by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry


one touch
look away
and as far as I can tell
I can’t defend myself

before you know my name
I can’t defend myself
I was an open book
all the weight of the spine

to the cold curbside
I need a friend machine to help me outside
and tomorrow comes 
and they all stop singing along
I need a friend machine to help me just to last the night

I look for deliverance but
I’m living under some kind of spell
I can’t defend myself

it’s just an itch
there in the bottom of the mind
come out with it
you make me wonder all the time
are you listening, friend?
will you tend to me and I’ll tend

to the cold curbside
I need a friend machine to help me outside
and tomorrow comes 
and they all stop singing along
I need a friend machine to help me just to last the night

Nation of Language - Friend Machine

Produced by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry

I lock the door, adjust my seat
and think on distant friends
when they were mine
and I was theirs
all lying end to end

but if I try to fall asleep
could I even pretend
‘cause in my eyes
there’s nothing else
but this space
and that’s it

they walk
concrete
manic in the way
they walk
beside me
I’ll never get an answer now
turn the pages
try to find another way

the sun is low
I watch them move
drifting scene to scene
the basic plot is lost on me
but all the shots are clean

and it’s my intention 
to find redemption
but elusive it proves to be
so my love, keep my close tonight

they walk
concrete
manic in the way
they walk
beside me
I’ll never get an answer now
turn the pages
try to find another way

Nation of Language - The Motorist

Nation of Language - Spare Me the Decision (Cutouts Remix)

Stream / Download: https://ffm.to/spare-me-the-decision-remix
Spare me the Decision is taken from the new album 'Strange Disciple'. Out Now: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple

Nation of Language - Spare Me the Decision (Sextile Remix)

The official video for Nation Of Language - Sightseer

From the album Strange Disciple: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple 

Directed and Edited by John MacKay
Cinematographer - Cece Chan
Colorist - Zack Chalmers

Processed by Mono No Aware

Sightseer written by Nation of Language
Produced by Nick Millhiser
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

LYRICS:

I could wander ‘round like a sightseer
‘til you say to me “child, there’s an answer here”
And if all I ever get is a reticent nod
I’d be falling madly in love
So now you see see see my selfish needs

Maybe I’ll have to feel this on my own
You can get what you want:
Experiences, I’m told
Maybe I’ll have to feel this on my own
You can get what you want:
Another kind of love

Idly shifting piles of the looseleaf 
And you say to me “child, what about the last scene”
Talking to myself, I remember every breath
C’mon, kill me, please

Maybe I’ll have to feel this on my own
You can get what you want:
Experience, and a way home
Maybe I’ll have to feel this on my own
You can get what you want:
Another kind of love

Did I call too late tonight?
All I do is work anymore
Bet I could fix up my face between 8th and 9th
And I could be what you want
Before I start lying to myself
What do I care what some tarot says
But when the car pulls ‘round I feel it in my eyes
I feel it
And they fall

Nation of Language - Sightseer (Official Video)

Too Much, Enough is from the forthcoming album Strange Disciple - Out Sept 15th.
Pre-order: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple

Nation of Language - Too Much, Enough (Miss Grit Remix)

Weak In Your Light is from the forthcoming album Strange Disciple - Out Sept 15th.
Pre-order: https://ffm.to/nol-strange-disciple

Nation of Language

Strange Disciple

A Way Forward

Introduction, Presence

Spare Me the Decision (Cutouts Remix)

Spare Me the Decision (Sextile Remix)

Too Much, Enough (Miss Grit Remix)

Weak In Your Light (Daniel Avery Remix)

Across That Fine Line (Joe Goddard Remix)

Across That Fine Line (Working Men's Club Remix)

From The Hill

Androgynous

Stars and Sons

Across That Fine Line