Nic T - The Use (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Soon
02. Full Grown Sun
03. Tea
04. Dust
05. Tyrant's Trident
06. Crossing Battled Eyes
07. The Ladder
08. The Cliffs
09. Blindfold
10. Lord Mary
11. The Kid
12. Cerebro
13. Using

There is an intimacy that trembles in the cracks of sound, a truth that reveals itself only when imperfection is allowed to be recorded. That is where The Use lives, the second album by Vicenza-born singer-songwriter and composer Nic T. After The Saint, he returns with a denser, more mature record that is still deeply instinctive. A subtle sonic breath that moves between Canterbury sound, freak folk, and a playful, cosmic psychedelia.

Written and mostly recorded in his garage-studio, among cables, tapes, and improvised microphones, The Use is a work shaped with the patience and vulnerability of a sound craftsman. A mosaic of 13 songs born at different times and in different places, yet united by a shared breath — music that seeks more than it declares, that welcomes rather than imposes.

Around Nic T’s voice swirls a constellation of sounds: prepared guitars, distorted vocals, grainy cassette textures, small sonic accidents that become living matter. Some tracks feature contributions from his band — Luca Sguera (She’s Analog, C+C Maxigross, Scope, A Nice Noise), Nicolò Masetto (Mamuthones), and Ed Bernez (LL Burns) — who bring pulse and choral energy, amplifying a sense of community within an inherently solitary record.

The title, The Use, suggests a question more than an answer: what is all this for? What meaning do we give to things, to actions, to relationships? In this exploration, cynicism and romanticism, concreteness and dreamlike drift coexist. There is the fear of loss and the tenderness of attachment, distance and its opposite. As in Full Grown Sun, the album’s first single, where human fragility becomes a gesture of love — a soft touch offered at the edge of disaster.

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