Nirosta Steel: My Skyscraper

Nirosta Steel: My Skyscraper

The longtime Arthur Russell collaborator finally gets a solo exhibition: a gorgeously realized and fundamentally incomplete work of sensual art-folk, leftfield disco, and experimental synth-pop. It’s at once an archival triumph and one of the year’s most thrilling new releases.

Nirosta Steel, 'MY SKYSCRAPER' Review

Danceteria is having a moment. On the recent Confessions II, Madonna memorializes her own origin story—sneaking cassette tapes of her debut single to the deejay over lines of cocaine—on a track named after the New York City nightclub where CBGB punks and post-disco clubgoers collided in the early eighties. English New Wavers Soft Cell also named their forthcoming album after Danceteria, inspired by their time recording in New York forty years ag…

Nirosta Steel :: My Skyscraper

Nirosta Steel's MY SKYSCRAPER arrives with the kind of mythology reserved for impossible records. Featuring Arthur Russell throughout, it resurrects an alternate history of experimental pop—one that still sounds stranger, freer, and more adventurous than much of today's underground. The post Nirosta Steel :: My Skyscraper first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.