Nadia Reid announces new album, Enter Now Brightness

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Nadia Reid has been thinking about the past decade. “Ten years of documenting my life in song,” is one way she describes it. “The highest privilege” is another. With the recording of her fourth album, has come a reassessment of so many moments across those years. “You have points in life that when you look back you see were a time of almost cellular change,” she says; a realisation now that so many of these new songs have been drawn from the times when “all my cells were changing.”

The album follows 2020's Out of My Province, and marks Reid's first as a mother. “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.”

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.”

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