Nation of Language, Deeper [outside]

Ian Richard Devaney’s baritone recalls Ian Curtis, but Nation of Language’s old-school synth-pop is all New Order. Alongside his wife, Aidan Noell, on synths and vocals and Alex MacKay on bass, the New York trio promotes their fourth album in five years, Dance Called Memory. Danceable beats (“Inept Apollo”) and soaring choruses (“In Another Life”) have pushed the prolific Sub Pop signees to the front of the Eighties alternative revival.  – Flora Belle Farr