No one ever got anywhere by standing still. As an artist, you must move to grow. It’s a sentiment Nadia Reid knows well. Leaving her beloved New Zealand for America to record her third album with strangers, what she didn’t expect was a family awaiting her; teaming up with Spacebomb, her evocative travel tales push explorations of love, personal growth and deep reflection beyond boundaries she ever thought possible.
Her new album “Out of my Province’ is out today on Spacebomb. “Out of My Province is definitely a travelling album; they are road songs,” tells Nadia, of the album, written during a period of intensive touring following the release of her acclaimed 2017 LP, Preservation.”
Turning to her new single she reveals “Canada is a metaphor for All Places and Everywhere but the phrase essentially came to me after I was reflecting on my long love affair with Rufus and Martha Wainwright and Joni Mitchell – Canadian Artists that have constantly inspired and saved me through the years. I had also been particularly inspired by Michele Shocked’s song Anchorage where she would reference place and city a lot. Which I have done throughout the record.” Says Reid on the new single Oh Canada, one of the few countries she’s yet to visit.
“It is also about big love and new love and navigating being an artist in love with an artist. I was on tour a lot and I was getting more and moree attention. There was friction and resentment. So Oh Canada is about that relationship breaking down essentially. It was me working out what I was waiting for and what I wanted from life at that point in time. I finished the song in Portugal.”
The new album was produced Trey Pollard (Foxygen) and Matthew E. White (Natalie Prass, The Mountain Goats) in Richmond, Virginia and features Nadia’s lushest arrangements to-date. Still at the centre of it all is her immaculate, immense voice and a perspective that’s at once inquisitive and empathetic. “As an artist, progression is key. I want to always be changing, pushing boundaries, to feel growth. It’s good for us,” Reid says.
Live Dates
SXSW and April European Tour Dates *with Aoife Nessa Frances as support
13-21.03.2020 Austin, TX (US), SXSW
10.4.2020 Brighton (UK) The Hope & Ruin*
11.4.2020 Bristol (UK) The Louisiana*
13.4.2020 Glasgow (UK) The Old Hairdressers*
14.4.2020 Manchester (UK) Band on The Wall*
15.4.2020 Leeds (UK) Brudenell Social Club*
16.4.2020 London (UK) Oslo*
18.4.2020 Rotterdam (NL) Motel Mozaique Festival
20.4.2020 Hamburg (DE) Aalhaus
21.4.2020 Berlin (DE) Roter Salon
22.4.2020 Jena (DE) Trafo
24.4.2020 Vienna (AT) Haus der Musik
26.4.2020 Munich (DE) Glockenbachwerkstatt
27.4.2020 Zürich (CH) El Lokal
28.4.2020 Bern (CH) ISC Club
30.4.2020 Paris (FR), Le Pop-Up du Label