Nothing, Nothing – NUNDALE (2022) – Album Review

Album: Be Somewhere Twice

Artist: NUNDALE

Label: ERRORGRID RECORDS

Release Date: October 5, 2022

Bandcamp: https://nundale.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-nothing-2

I’ve had the grim pleasure of witnessing NUNDALE in their natural habitat a handful of times across the shadowy underbelly of Portland. Okay, it wasn’t that dramatic, but I do remember one particular live set very well. It was an wall of sound where I felt like the last sea captain on an ocean filled with dead things, clinging to my broken ship as endless waves rose and crashed around me. NUNDALE was the waves.

Nothing, Nothing is nothing like that live set. This album feels less like drowning and more like staring into the void and realizing it’s staring back. While it still has roots in the DOOM parts of my mind, this album manages to strike that perfect, unsettling chord of despair – a great feeling. The production on this album is razor sharp. NUNDALE describes the album as a journey through the inner development of a human being: from the raw biological start, through the indoctrination of societal structures, to the final unraveling into nothingness. Heavy stuff. But for me, Nothing, Nothing isn’t all that complicated – it’s really just a stark reminder that we’re born alone; which (incidentally) is the name of the fourth track on this album.

As far as dark ambient goes, this is one of those albums that makes it feel all right to be depressed. It’s the sound of accepting the futility of it all and finding some warped beauty in the act. There’s something almost therapeutic about letting this album envelop you – the perfect album to indulge in on a cold Sunday afternoon while reading about mutually assured nuclear destruction.

Would absolutely recommend.

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  • This sounds sick as hell!

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