Nurses - Apple's Acre

Nurses - Apple's AcreIf indie rock has become, for the most part, an endlessly rotating set of established signifiers in 2009, then Nurses' second album, Apple's Acre, is perfectly at home in it all, skipping amid everything from bits of electronic echo and glitch to clap along sentiments to cracked voice ruminations on home and love and all this within the first song, "Technicolor," so if nothing else the band knows how to put all the pieces together from the start. But

enraptured by instrumental grandeur and the woven tapestry of marvelous

Luke Fitton (Little Mix

sing and slash their way to survival

He and Aaron made me feel extremely comfortable

Evans is joined by bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker

B-sides and a complete 1994 live show

glockenspiel

capturing the bold

layered sound and razor-sharp lyricism

By developing their sound further into sleaze rock on Devils (2004) and Angels (2007) and not shying away from pitch black Elvis allusions in singer Jyrki 69's dark voice and unique onstage dance moves

John Wetton (Asia)

and producer captures a period of intense creativity and emotion