23 January 2025 - 0 Comments

Nadia Reid has released Hold It Up, the latest single before the release of her forthcoming album Enter Now Brightness, out 7th February on Slow Time Records (Aotearoa/NZ) and Chrysalis Records (Rest of World).

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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.”

Hold It Up is also accompanied by a beautiful music video shot on Piha Beach on the West Coast of Auckland, New Zealand, which you can watch here.

On the song Reid recalls “I remember I wrote this in lockdown in our house we’d bought at the end of 2019 in a suburb of Dunedin. It was right on the hill, like a treehouse, on a very lovely, lush section… It’s the idea that I can be kind to anyone now, tenderness towards the whole world, of being in love with the world. It’s seeing humans, even people that I think I have nothing in common with and thinking ‘You are somebody’s precious baby.’”

"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

Photo Credit: Marieke Macklon

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