Review: When the now defunct British music magazine Sounds took on Nurse With Wound's startling debut album, Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of Sewing Machines & An Umbrella, the critic decided to abandon the usual star rating. Instead, they awarded the record a 'maximum' five questions marks - ????? - nodding to the fact it's very difficult to know how to engage with it, let alone describe it. Since then, Chance Meeting has been reappraised and lauded by many, with FACT considering this among the Top 50 Albums of the 1970s. It's a wild ride, even if at times the 'noise' is actually more disquiet than anything else. Crackling, fuzzy, plucked, echoed, reverberated, refrained and made with a breadth of textures that go beyond most other listening experiences, this is a priceless and rare example of music as a tool of genuine, bold sonic exploration.
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