{"id":7084,"date":"2013-06-11T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:04:56","slug":"the-bad-nerves-alienate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/06\/11\/the-bad-nerves-alienate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Nerves &#8211; Alienate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/06\/11\/the-bad-nerves-alienate\/a3198356038_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7085\" alt=\"a3198356038_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/a3198356038_2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>With their debut EP <em>Alienate<\/em>, The Bad Nerves, give us five anthemic songs about social isolation, alienation and feeling bad.<!--more--> I don\u2019t know if this is intentional, but <em>Alienate<\/em> could be seen as a mini-narrative, where the protagonist tries to navigate a world lacking in empathy and genuine human interaction. On the title track opener grinding guitars, pulsing keyboards and chaotic drums surround Marc LeNeveu\u2019s screams of \u201cSo sick of feeling nothing . . . so sick of feeling small.\u201d This sets the formula for a prolonged indictment, that is both sonically catchy and relatable. Each of the succeeding tracks follow suit, focusing on different patterns of self destruction. Like the unfulfilled desire to escape in \u201cI Want to Live with the Aliens,\u201d the anger and rage of \u201cBlack Clouds,\u201d or the emotional vampirism of \u201cParasite.\u201d If this is indeed a narrative, then it is one that fulfils its dramatic arc by literally ending in disaster with the song \u201cWhiplash,\u201d in which our plucky anti-hero gets \u201csmoked by a semi\u201d and the story ends in a tangled mess of broken glass and twisted metal. The ultimate fuck you to surviving only to suffer more emotional pain. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebadnerves.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">thebadnerves.bandcamp.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-3093cc42-33f9-ede0-02d7-f2ce04b980f8\"> Dave Skene<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their debut EP Alienate, The Bad Nerves, give us five anthemic songs about social isolation, alienation and feeling bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81,563,766,806],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bad-nerves","tag-local","tag-punk","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}