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"Toronto duo Nadja--drone explorer Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff--may be the best band in the world doing something exciting right now with Jesu/Godflesh/Napalm Death/etc." -- Pitchfork "Toronto duo Nadja play ambient doom that channels My Bloody Valentine more than My Dying Bride. But despite the obvious similarities with Jesu's shoegazy organ sounds and drum machinery, Nadja have evolved in their own right." -- Decibel "With enough subterranean dirge to please a room of Sunn O))) fanboys, Nadja are a Toronto-based duo (Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff) who delight in the kind of debased and caliginous excursions which match shoegaze aesthetics to a rimy style which can't help but evoke the spectre of Earth et al." -- Boomkat Canadian ambient doom band Nadja returns with Radiance of Shadows, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Touched. Radiance of Shadows is a mammoth monster of an album, spanning well over an hour with three tracks that are more epic and heavier than ever. Nadja's constantly increasing fan base will not be disappointed with this outing; it's classic Nadja. Radiance of Shadows has the feel of the super-saturated, dense recordings favored by the likes of Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but with the bite of metal. Nadja is one of the most respected outsider metal projects, with two previous releases on Alien8 Recordings, as well as Body Cage on Profound Lore and a number of limited edition offerings on labels such as Archive, Equation, and Conspiracy. Radiance of Shadows opens rather gently, taking its time to give birth to an amazing ISIS-like riff that becomes completely washed out by Nadja's trademark wall of ambient noise. Just when you think it cannot get any louder or more saturated, it begins to subside into another subdued section of ambience and occasional riffing. This eventually gives way to a brutal tandem of guitar and drums that recalls early Swans. The band recently completed a small European tour with Troum and, in the past, has performed with artists such as ISIS, Tim Hecker, Ocean, Fear Falls Burning, and Bloody Panda. The band plans to continue supporting their recorded output with live shows and touring whenever possible.