{"id":685,"date":"2016-07-08T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=685"},"modified":"2016-11-09T04:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:14:46","slug":"685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/07\/08\/685\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release Roundup – Comedy from Aparna Nancherla, Music from Night Verses and Slow Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMEDY <\/strong>
\n1. Aparna Nancherla<\/a> \u2013 Just Putting This Out There<\/em>
\nNancherla\u2019s debut album is also the first release on Tig Notaro<\/a>\u2019s Bentzen Ball Records<\/a>, an imprint of Secretly Canadian<\/a>. It\u2019s a strong showing, partly because Nancherla is a seasoned stand-up and writer. She\u2019s spent a lot of time on the road and landed a job writing on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em><\/a> last year. She has honed this material, and her perspective as an anxious outsider, not sure how to hop in the mix with her fellow humans. When she moved to New York, she wasn\u2019t prepared to see so many super models just walking down the street. \u201cModels, to me, feel like self-esteem pick-pockets,\u201d she says. \u201cLike, they\u2019re fine at a distance, but then you directly walk by one, and you\u2019re just like, \u2018Nooooo. I have nothing! Even my personality\u2019s the wrong shape.\u201d Her bright and cheery stage cadence belies the fact that she\u2019s often talking about depression. She\u2019s wistful about bad weather, for example. \u201cI love rainy weather. I love when it\u2019s gray and cold and windy. \u2018Cause for me, it reminds me why I got in the whole depression game.\u201d She even sounds like she\u2019s describing a glass half full when she asks, \u201cDon\u2019t you think that any pizza can be a personal one if you cry while you eat it?\u201d She\u2019ll be touring the U.S., with a stop in Quebec, in support of the album.
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