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With the hundreds of Nadja albums being produced every day, it may be hard to know where to start. Desire in Uneasiness-- the most recent, for the next eight minutes or so-- seems as good a place as any, marching though it does to a very different drummer than its predecessors.

Indeed, the addition of any drummer at all makes Desire a little different for Nadja's Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. The droney Toronto duo employed a real live drummer this time out, adding even more depth to their strikingly lush soundscapes. The resulting disc, packed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, will arrive from Crucial Blast April 8.

Of course there are a half dozen other Nadja releases in queue, including some reworkings of classic Nadja CD-Rs. No, seriously: the Tümpsia split 12" (Accident Prone), Trembled 12" (Volubilis), Thaumogenesis (Level Plane) and Corrasion (Foreshadow) double twelves, and Skin Turns to Glass LP (The End) all await, as does a collaborative CD/LP with Black Boned Angel (20 Buck Spin).

Finally, Nadja have a few scattered live engagements over the coming months, with a stop at SXSW at least one Pitchfork news staffer can't shut up about.

Nadja:

02-09 Toronto, Ontario - Sonic Boom (in-store)
02-13 Brampton, Ontario - Rose Theatre (Brampton Indie Arts Festival)
02-26 Toronto, Ontario - The Ambient Ping
03-06 Montreal, Quebec - Under the Snow Festival
03-07 Brooklyn, NY - Club Europa
03-15 Austin, TX - SXSW (End Records showcase)
03-30 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
04-18 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
04-19 Tilburg, Netherlands - Roadburn Festival
04-20 Bremen, Germany - Die Friese
04-22 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
04-24 Aarhus, Denmark - Katapult (Nadja & Aidan Baker solo sets)
04-25 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen (Nadja & Aidan Baker solo sets)

* with Teith