Turning Out is the second single from NUN's forthcoming album, The Dome. Turning Out swings between NUN's ‘synth punk’ moniker to ‘sweetly gobbed’ choruses.
The band's development echoes the first wave of post-punk and Industrial music, from the malevolent broken electronics of Throbbing Gristle to the sensual trance of Chris and Cosey, or Human Leagues journey from the turgid grind of Being Boiled to the giddy synth-pop of DARE.
Vocalist Jenny Branagan cites the song as offering "disturbance and reward… we wanted the chorus to feel like a release from the frantic tension of the verse". "Musically it sounds triumphant but lyrically it’s a negative outline of those formative experiences that leave you altered and filled with rage".
credits
from The Dome,
track released September 21, 2018
NUN are Jenny Branagan, Steven Harris, Hugh Young and Tom Hardisty.
Competing for my favourite album of all time. Feels like it was an ancient relic unearthed from a tomb, imbued with the power of rock and roll eternal. Feels like watching mad max for the first time. It's perfect. weak_person
I don't hear a lot of this kind of music, gives me ,loose Sonic Youth vibes. Everything about it is cool, like too cool for school cool. I want to skip class and spray paint an alley with these people. Kyle Zarnoch
On their 10th record, the Glasgow-based group serves up more wonderfully menacing, gothy synthpop, perfect for dungeon dancing. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 19, 2023
Krautrock goes to Woodstock on this collection of pinwheeling electronic tracks that are as spiritual as they are mechanical. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 8, 2019
Brilliant, high energy album. It was really hard to set a favourite track because the tracks flow so well. I’m so impressed that Bitumen are definitely on my list of must see bands live. suzygen