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New Model Army / Re: NMA Genre (Genre fluid?)
« Last post by cthulhu on June 09, 2026, 06:54:21 AM »Genre fluid is a good description. I think "genre" has always to do with identitiy "Trouble always begins with the naming of things" or the search for it, managing expectations, trying to describe patterns or examples for something. When i think about it, it's very hard to describe how i perceived them.
It's been a really long time listening..;-)
And after TGOC, almost every album following needed time for me to get into it, so i always expected something soundwise, sonically, which then was at first very different from the expected and known sounds. But NMA had always the constant, the true identity i would say in bringing great poetry to life.
The lyrics and the music combined tell such great storys and it also was always Justins voice and delivery of singing and emotions, which for me was the main connection to NMA. And in there was the search for identity rather than the conclusion of what they were, the element of change in life in generall, the embracing of ideas instead of playing it safe, experimental sometimes.
And i would even say that NMA are a spiritual band for me in the way that the wisdom of accepting the ever changing nature of things, the embracing of all kinds of influence while still having an identity and having the power of screaming "no!" is an elemental part of them..the process is important not the result...
It's been a really long time listening..;-)
And after TGOC, almost every album following needed time for me to get into it, so i always expected something soundwise, sonically, which then was at first very different from the expected and known sounds. But NMA had always the constant, the true identity i would say in bringing great poetry to life.
The lyrics and the music combined tell such great storys and it also was always Justins voice and delivery of singing and emotions, which for me was the main connection to NMA. And in there was the search for identity rather than the conclusion of what they were, the element of change in life in generall, the embracing of ideas instead of playing it safe, experimental sometimes.
And i would even say that NMA are a spiritual band for me in the way that the wisdom of accepting the ever changing nature of things, the embracing of all kinds of influence while still having an identity and having the power of screaming "no!" is an elemental part of them..the process is important not the result...