Many of these calls and emails are from managing agents on behalf of freeholders and leaseholders.Īnd we’re expecting lots more enquiries. We’re receiving lots more enquiries about EV charging points.

“Do we need permission to install electric vehicle charging points? Would we need to amend our leases? What if not all the tenants at the block agree or want them?” Could this be the first interactive album released? Maybe not intentionally, but you never know.By Nick Leedham on 26 th Jul 2022 Contact Nick Leedham Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Points For Blocks Of Flats Everything is perfectly in place, but it's up to the listener to find it all. There is not a sound on this album that is insignificant. It may be a small, little hook, but it makes perfect sense. The Nits may be artsy-fartsy, but they still know how to reel in the listener. Funny thing is, it all works brilliantly. Other tracks seem stripped down to their basics, then disassembled and rearranged for no apparent reason. 'New Flat,' the album opener, sounds like an early Devo outtake.

'Office at Night' does have a tortured, Lennon-esque vocal for the verses, but the chorus has a haunting Kraftewerk-like beauty to it. 'Zebra' has got to be one of the strangest songs this side of the Residents and it is based around a strange rhythm and distant shouted and whispered vocals and keyboards. In fact, rhythm seems to be the focus here, with many songs based around tribal-like thumps. Oddly enough, strange strums, beats, clicks, ticks, and plenty of studio tricks have replaced them. Gone are the straightforward melodic hooks of their previous albums, replaced by cerebral hooks that creep up on you when you least expect it.

New Flat is a strange album, plain and simple. After an enjoyable but relatively tame debut from 1978 and a creative leap forward with 1979's Tent, the Nits took a detour for this 1981 release, losing the casual fan along the way but gaining far more credibility and more fervent adulation from their remaining fans.

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