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NADIA REID
releases new album
 ‘ENTER NOW BRIGHTNESS’

Out Now on Chrysalis Records

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Photo: Marieke Macklon

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Feature Album On Double J This Week

“Moving away from folk, the New Zealand songwriter embraces a full bodied sound halfway between Haim’s sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten’s full-throated songcraft.” The Guardian

“Impressively, the lustrous-voiced Reid has changed tracks without derailing the train” Uncut

“One foot in folk, and one foot in something bigger, catchier, louder and more potent” NPR

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Nadia Reid has released her new album Enter Now Brightness, via Chrysalis Records.

Listen to Enter Now Brightness

Containing the finest songwriting of Reid’s career. Enter Now Brightness is a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. It takes its title from a passage in a book Reid was reading from a line that seemed to call out to her from the page: ‘Brightness entered the study.’ “I wrote that down,” she says. “It was the image of opening the curtain, or turning the light on, or of standing in the wings of a theatre and waiting to go on stage. It’s the idea of life beginning now.”

For the first time in her career, Reid entered the studio (with long-standing guitarist Sam Taylor and producer Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams)) without a clutch of songs written and ready to record. There were half-songs and sketches and lyrics untethered from music. “There was a revelation of: it doesn’t have to be finished, it doesn’t have to be a perfect song before it’s taken to the band.” The results find Reid moving ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own.

“I think for me, becoming a mother brought all of [the issues of] the inner child and all of my own mothering right back up to the surface,” she says. “A lot of women say that when they’ve had babies they’ve said to their own mums ‘Thank you so much!’ because they have this revelation of what their mother’s sacrificed for them. And I guess I had that in a different way.”

Enter Now feels different. It is an album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” That through music we can find great change. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”

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Tracklist:

Emmanuelle
Cry On Cue
Baby Bright
Hold It Up
Changed Unchained
Second Nature
Even Now
Hotel Santa Cruz
Woman Apart
Send It Down The Line

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