LoneLady - Nerve Up

What this video is

Released February 2010 on Warp Records, 'Nerve Up' emerged at the intersection of the UK post-punk revival and Warp's expanding remit beyond electronic music. Julie Campbell recorded the album in a derelict Manchester mill in 2009, situating the work within a tradition of Mancunian industrial geography as creative catalyst — the same psychogeographic lineage as Joy Division, The Fall, and early Factory Records. The…

Why it matters

Occupies a precise junction between post-punk revival, angular art-rock, and Warp-adjacent leftfield indie. Sonically indebted to Gang of Four, Wire, and ESG, the track and its visual documentation represent a 2010 restatement of late-1970s/early-1980s Manchester and Leeds punk-funk economy,…