NYLON UNION - DEFRAGMENT US

On their latest album Nylon Union’s songwriter, Slovakia-based Richard Imrich, has teamed up with experimental poet Peter Šulej, with whom he co-wrote the lyrics of all the songs on Defragment Us bar two. It’s Nylon Union’s fifth album since they debuted in 2001.

The songs do cover diverse topics, but the overriding theme is one of dislocation and the desperate feeling we all have when trying to reach out to each other in a world that is becoming more extreme, more polarised. Defragment Us is a denser, psychedelic, and more cold wave sound than its predecessor, with at times an unemotional 80s sound. Lyrically it’s very interesting with intelligent (it’s not often lyrics are provided with reference notes) and intriguing visons, but also laced with humour and quirkiness. LOUDER THAN WAR