Released: 08/01/21
The 40th anniversary edition of Nurse With Wound’s Merzbild Schwet marks Steven Stapleton’s first true solo venture—a surreal, brain-bending journey through decaying jazz, avant-garde theatre, and sonic collage. Created after his bandmates departed, the album is a singular vision of experimental madness: Side A’s “Dada X” blends fractured concrète jazz and slowed pop fragments, while the 24-minute “Futurismo” drifts through eerie woodwinds, spectral electronics, and warped vocals. A foundational statement in industrial and abstract sound, now reissued in all its unsettling glory.