Strange Brotherhood

AttAck AttAck, 1998

The mid-90s were turbulent for NMA. They split from EMI and tensions grew between Justin Sullivan and Robert Heaton. No one would have been surprised if they thought the world had moved on without them.

Their response was typical NMA: dig their heels in and do what they’d always done. The result was an album that sparks with moments of backs-againstthe-wall brilliance, encapsulated in Wonderful Way To Go’s rush of death-or-glory euphoria.

This would be Heaton’s last album with the band. He left soon afterwards after being diagnosed with a brain tumour and sadly died five years later.