Building on the fuzzy, thrashy, darkwave-influenced sound from their two previous albums, Dead Deer and Repulsion, Nag takes what you think you know about the band and its influences, throws it into an acid vat straight out of a sci-fi film, and keeps it there until out of the vat emerges an album uncategorizable by conventional standards and disgustingly captivating (and covered in glowing green goo, of course). The evolution of Nag across albums is like the progression of a parasite taking over a host body, and Human Coward Coyote is the perfect soundtrack for the overtaking of the host’s brain. Human Coward Coyote, the band’s first album under Denver-based DIY hardcore label Convulse Records, ensures that both pre-Convulse and newly acquainted listeners recognize that Nag never settles for less than complete ruination.

Send us feedback about these examples.By Liz Van Horn ( likely familiar with the saying that hardcore music will “rot your brain.” While many musicians over time have fought tirelessly to debunk this belief as a myth, Atlanta’s veteran punk freaks, Nag, have released a third full-length album that treats this warning like an enticing challenge to produce proof. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'nag.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Rachel Besser, Vogue, 1 July 2021 And that the ever-insightful manager of a brilliant fund has spotted a better horse to ride while realizing a loss on a horse that turned out to be a nag. 2022 With the world increasingly opening up, there’s no need to spoil dinners or drinks reuniting with friends with the constant nag of a chill. Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2020 Katie Lowes, who plays Jen, Tom’s wife, wasn’t like a one-dimensional nag. 2021 Let some poor nag so much as lay back his ears and people mutter threats and reach for the nearest club. 2022 To a kid like Tony - whose own dad (Jon Bernthal) is a blunt distracted goon and whose mother (a mournful, putty-nosed Vera Farmiga) is a joyless nag - Dickie is everything: Suave, calm, charismatic. 2022 But Helen is a controlling nag, while Emily acts like a bratty child. Noun There’s Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), a lowly corporate security apparatchik with the pretensions of an Imperial officer and with simmering, repressed rage instilled by a tyrannical nag of a mother. Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023 If the macro environment weren’t challenging enough, there are also nagging technical problems. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023 These queries nag even more when secondary characters, like Cummings’ Kessler, are rendered more robustly.

Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, His development was hindered by nagging injuries that started in high school and continued into the early part of spring drills. 2021 Every step brings risk that his muscles will cave, his legs will crumple, and calculations constantly nag in the back of his mind to prepare for a fall. Stephen Macknik, Scientific American, 1 Sep. Shawn Mcfarland, Dallas News, The ostensive unpopularity of violet versus purple nagged at the back of Tager’s mind for much of his life, eventually setting him on a 20-year journey across 193 museums in 42 countries. Katie Engelhart, New York Times, Here’s what did especially nag Bochy about the loss, though. Dateline Nbc, NBC News, And the girls were forever nagging their mother to be careful. Verb That incomplete search of Cliff Jones’ property still nags at her.

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