free music friday: viv albertine

Though her part in the recent Slits reunion was short lived, punk icon Viv Albertine has spent the last few years reacquainting herself with her much-neglected Telecaster, balancing the demanding role of motherhood with the task of drawing together enough material to perform both as a solo artist and with new band Limerence. With a solo single due for release through Manimal Vinyl some time next year, we thought Viv would be squirrelled away working on her upcoming album, so this unexpected collaboration comes as a pleasantly festive surprise. Having hit it off during a performance on The Late Late Breakfast Show on Resonance FM, Albertine and experimental noisecore group Braindead Collective played a show at a friend’s birthday party shortly after and decided to put their improvisational chemistry down on record, drafting in journalist/author and Slits biographer Zoë Street Howe on backing vocals. They describe the track as “a melodic, poignant remembering of childhood innocence and trust, with a skewed and intense musical interpretation,” a perfectly apt description for this hypnotic, atmospheric number.

FREE MP3: Viv Albertine fear. Braindead Collective and Zoë Street Howe, ‘When It Was Nice’

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Written by: Charlotte Richardson Andrews

Tags: braindead collective, the slits, viv albertine, zoë street howe

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