Nada UV Perspective on Trust
I'm going to cheat and pick three. "I'm Keeping the Moon" is sort of a personal credo. "Sex Is Where We Hide Things" presents our frisky version of Carolyn Elliot's "Existential Kink" philosophy in a Bacharach-style package. "Die All the Time" completes the trifecta of demonstrating how we look at the world, and is a certified banger on top of that.
As a committee, we've arrived at: Cocteau Twins, Electric Youth, and Future. But we have the rest of our lives to decide.
We believe the concept of "intellectual property" is prima face ridiculous. Art is a celebration, not some widget someone can own like it's Baltic Avenue or something. Sometimes it feels like late-stage capitalism has strangled the public understanding of art, so we see it as our role to push back on that. We don't think it's healthy that making art requires constant "engagement," or that art so often dovetails with fame. In our view, art becomes art when the beholder beholds it, not before. The artist is a catalyst, but no one else should take credit for your experience, which is what really matters. Compared to that everyday alchemy, the nature of the work's origin is of marginal, trivial importance. This is the number-one reason we choose to remain mostly anonymous. There are many other reasons, too.
Nada UV means steamy, dreamy post-vaportrap noir for wounded lovers with exceptional tastes and questionable exes. Every romance has power dynamics in play. You can either take a good, hard look at them, or you can leave them unsupervised. Both ways hurt. One comes with a much rosier prognosis. One is significantly more dangerous. Which doesn't mean it's an easy decision!
Laura Vargas, one of three cofounders of Nada UV, singer with sass and pizazz, lover of almost all synthesizers.
Every morning, again, for the first time.
We started in the vaporwave scene, and that will always be an influence. "Trust" would be broadly categorized as synth-pop. We also just released Gnosis on the Low End, a postmodern G-funk excursion. We contain multitudes!
I mean, it can't not be Future.
We give our music to you. It only becomes art when you interpret it. So. Go bonkers!
"Genuine alien vintage," to crib from one of our favorite reviews.
We were the Cocteau Twins of vaportrap. Then we were a Camper Van Beethoven tribute act. Now we have fully and fearlessly embraced the funk in all its forms.
