Nadia Reid
announces new album
'Preservation'
release date - 3rd March, 2017
Listen to the first
single
The Arrow & The Aim here:
https://soundcloud.com/hellonadiareid/the-arrow-the-aim
"Reid is a remarkably talent, assured, clever and
confident singer-songwriter..... a devastating youthful wisdom that gives her
songs a feeling of lasting profundity." The Guardian (UK)
“For a new artists, her confident grace is all the more remarkable” Pitchfork
“a young New Zealand singer-songwriter you'll feel you've known forever” MOJO
Self-discovery
doesn’t come easy. It’s usually a rite of passage to get burned before the
wounds can heal and often takes a new perspective to truly understand yourself.
18 months and 10,000kms travelled since many needles first dropped on her debut
LP Listen To Formation Look For The Signs, it’s safe to say with her second
album Preservation, Nadia Reid now knows herself extremely well.
“Preservation’ is about the point I started to love myself again. It is about
strength, observation and sobriety,” Nadia says. “It’s about when I could see
the future again. When the world was good again. When music was realised as my
longest standing comfort.”
An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Preservation is the sound of
Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more
about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than
before. Nadia’s beautifully warm vocals coolly wrap around feelings of
turbulence, and exude a gently improved confidence. “This record is about being
OK with who I am in the world, and who I want to be. Learning to live with the
fact I’m a person who operates differently to others,” admits Nadia. “I’m
richer for the fact I am a musician. Without this way of being, I couldn’t
write songs.”
Returning to the production skills of Ben Edwards in his Sitting Room studios
in Christchurch and long term guitarist Sam Taylor, this time around everything
is rubbed in more grit and channels Nadia’s deftly profound take on life and
whilst we already knew it, her own realisation that it is music which drives
her. “I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt
almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to
myself. That’s what these songs are; a confession to my future and past self.”
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