Nauseous blends beauty and brutality in “Tracey Ullman”

In a world where genre lines frequently resemble walls, Nauseous crashes through with a poetic rage on the latest single, “Tracey Ullman.” It’s a soul-baring joyride that refuses to stay inside the lines and is all the better for it. “Tracey Ullman” pulls you in with an intimate hip-hop angle, as if you’re reading someone’s diary pages under a dim streetlight. But then, when you make yourself comfortable, the track switches gears, jazz-rap textures slide in, silky and reflective, like moments of clarity among the emotional static.

It erupts feelings long kept in check, the sonic equivalent of loving someone who only sees right through you. The contrast is deliberate and scalding. Nauseous is saying how it feels to want someone who does not want you back. The real wonder is that “Tracey Ullman” can still dance. Underneath all the emotional heft and genre-hopping, there’s an unifying rhythmic pulse that maintains the heart beating and the head nodding. The dance elements push it into the compulsive realm it’s a song to move through your sadness with.

The result is an uneasy tapestry of sound that feels raw, restless, and utterly alive. Nauseous seizes that contradiction of being drawn to someone who pushes you away. Nauseous breaks the musical chains of those injustices long since gone and eviscerates them, weaving influences with zillions of threads into something simultaneously highly personal and universal. This is emotion-melting, chewed-clear walls between sound and feeling until there isn’t any distinction at all. “Tracey Ullman” is a song you experience. And when you do, you won’t leave the same.