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Nun Habit’s debut album Hedge Fun is out now on vinyl and digital download via Bandcamp and to stream on Spotifyįollow Nun Habit on Facebook / Instagram / Twitter Kate: A romantic ballad for that mate you love so much you never wanna leave the pub.
Gregory: A straight up love song! About the person I love!
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Gregory: It took quite a while for us to figure out how to record this one properly – Kate ended up having to send Ric extra piano parts & vocals from Australia – but we’re all so pleased how it’s turned out in the end. This song starts delicately with a minimalist, repetitive guitar motif overlaid with a single vocal and builds layer upon layer to it’s joyous noisy ending. Kate: Charts the course from being caught in an existential funk to finding reason for hope and happiness in the friends around you. Gregory: Normally Kate & I write the lyrics for the songs we sing ourselves but this one’s all Kate and I’m so glad I get to sing it. Kate: A shouty, fuzz filled romp detailing the perils of online dating from the bizarre randomness of dating profile information & chat to the universal lack of enthusiasm for meeting up for a drink in real life. Kate: that moment after a breakup (which can be months or years, but hopefully hours…) where you realise that the whole situation wasn’t healthy or right for you anyway and with hindsight you just wish you’d got in first to be the righteous, jerk-ish breaker-uperer instead of the brutalised and gutted breaker-uperee. Kate: Sometimes we just like to jam to the drum loops on this old keytar we have. Gregory: A true story, and a song basically cobbled together from pieces we left lying around by our wonderful producer Ric James. I can’t really remember if it’s about anything in particular beyond hoping that work gets snowed off. Gregory: This is one of the oldest songs on the record, written more than 3 years ago. This song is the musical embodiment of those two things colliding in real life, written roughly 12 months before they did. Selina also used to really enjoy messaging us every time Twitter announced that Prince Phillip was dead. Kate: One of Selina’s favourite sayings is ‘a broken clock is right twice a day’. We caught up with dual vocalists Kate and Gregory for a tour of the LP, track by track. One of the key ingredients that makes the album work is the heart, warmth and sincerity with which it’s all done – they’re clearly having a ball, but we’re all invited to join them – and it doesn’t hurt that the album is chock-a-block with three minute punk-pop bangers either.
The quirky, humorous DIY indiepop line is a perilous tightrope indeed, with fiery pits of vacuousness and irritation glowering below, but Nun Habit traverse it with consumate ease, cartwheeling back and forth along it like a garage rock Cirque de Soleil. London-based queer DIY garage pop quintet Nun Habit released their debut album Hedge Fun this week, a pick ‘n’ mix bag of fuzzy punk, catchy Britpop hooks and glitter-strewn disco stompers that covers topics including “eczema, the perils of online dating, otters, and people on Twitter continually announcing the death of Prince Philip in the months and years leading up to his actual death.”