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“Nrvs have an innate punk swagger” Hard of Hearing
“Uncompromising, irreverent & unnerving punk 21st Century style” Louder Than War
The ever-elusive Nrvs are back; this time with the emotive Free – a strikingly alternative lament about the existential experience of heartbreak, or as the band put it “Just another dumb song about love found & lost within the wreckage. It happens. What are you gonna do?”
A taste of what’s to come from their upcoming album produced by Luis Felber (Attawalpa) & Matt Allchin (Florence & The Machine, SOAK, Mark Ronson), Free features in this summer’s hotly anticipated Netflix show Too Much, written & directed by Lena Dunham.
Founding member Ten Pence is not shy about the fact that he spent time at His Majesty’s pleasure since their I Like You EP, for his involvement in environmental activism – but insists Free is “not about that: it’s more that there are jails everywhere. We’re sort of all in jail all the time. Well, that’s what I learned in jail anyway.”
A track that’s travelled much over the years, Free used to be played at grimy basement shows in then-unfashionable parts of London by an earlier incarnation of the band – but they loved the song so kept on playing it when they became Nrvs. However, it evolved faster than they could keep pace with laying it down – always preferring the latest live version over the one they’d just recorded. “We’ve done more reboots of this song than fu*king Spiderman!” says Ten Pence “Recording our album we were like sod this, Free should be on here. So we finally & definitively reimagined it like Battlestar Galactica … then Free was reborn as a different song about a different heartbreak lol”.
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