In April, Nation Of Language released a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher Than The Rest" for a limited edition 7". Now, the Brooklyn synthpop trio is finally sharing the B-side, an unreleased track called "The Conversation."
"'The Conversation' is a song that's been haunting me for a few years now — one of my personal favorites I've written, yet it's never found a home on an album," Ian Richard Devaney expounds. "It's extremely contained in the sense that when I write out the lyrics it reads more like a standalone poem than most of our songs, and it dabbles in storytelling in a much different way than I'm used to doing. It's a vignette, centered around two people whose lives are so intertwined, and have been moving towards this one conversation, this inflection point, where the things that need to be said might finally be said."
Listen below.
TOUR DATES:
08/07 – Brno, CZ @ Pop Messe Festival
08/09 – Buftea, RO @ Summer Well Festival
08/11 – Erlangen, DE @ E-Werk
08/12 – Leipzig, DE @ Täubchenthal
08/14 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget
08/15 – Vienna, AT @ Flex
08/18 – London, UK @ Village Underground #
08/19 – London, UK @ Village Underground $
08/20 – London, UK @ Village Underground @
08/22 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
08/23 – Liverpool, UK @ Camp and Furnace
08/25 – Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
08/26 – Bristol, UK @ Electric Bristol
08/27 – Norwich, UK @ Waterfront
08/29 – Málaga, ES @ Canela Party
09/16 – Millersville, PA @ Phantom Power **
09/17 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar **
09/18 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar **
09/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount ** !
09/21 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small's Theater **
09/22 – Columbus, OH @ Skullys **
09/24 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall **
09/25 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Beanfield **
09/26 – Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace **
11/28 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Primavera Sound
12/05 – São Paulo, BR @ Primavera Sound
* w/ Deep Sea Diver
^ w/ Death Cab For Cutie
** w/ Anika
+ w/ Peel Dream Magazine
% w/ Modern Cult
! w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
# w/ Lael Neale
$ w/ Friko
@ w/ Miss Grit
