Audrey Nuna: Tiny Desk Concert
Bobby Carter, October 18, 2024 After spending a few years listening to Audrey Nunas music and watching her music videos, I wondered how she would conform to the Tiny Desk. Her visuals embody largerthanlife personae, and the sonics of her debut album, A Liquid Breakfast, are anything but acoustic. Everything that comes with the New Jerseyborn singersongwriter is big. She stepped up to the challenge of stripping the elements in 2022 when she played a special Tiny Desk (home) concert, which was enough to hold her spot behind the Desk. Audrey walked into NPR headquarters with her band, The Jaywalkers, baring that same persona that sets her apart from the rest, rockin hunting vests, kilts with skull caps and a denim shirt made of denim pants. The setlist perfectly encapsulates how much musical ground shes able to cover. She goes from a staccato flow on Damn Right to straightup funk on Time. She flipped Baby Blues into a jazz number and played Baby OG from her new album, TRENCH, for
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