Following the release of Nadia Reid‘s fourth album Enter Now Brightness in February, the New Zealander has released a new single today, ‘Moment By’.
On the song’s conception, one that Reid believes “belongs on the album”, but couldn’t quite make fit:
“It’s a bit of a blur. The song began in the heat of the pandemic. I’d been given some special brownies by a friend (delivered to the postbox) and was enjoying my daily allocation of walking around Chingford Park in the North East Valley, Dunedin, with my dog, Joni (more on the darling dog another time). I was thinking a lot about childhood (I’d gone to a Steiner School on the edge of the park), and about the world. My year of touring had evaporated, and yet, despite the risks that were increasing, I felt very content in the valley.
A year or so later, after the birth of my first daughter, I wrote the opening phrase in my small studio (a humble room with a circular ship-like window that overlooked one of my childhood houses) and recorded a simple demo on my phone to take to Tom (Healy), who was producing my album.
Songwriting will forever remain a mystery to me, but what I can say about this song is that it was the first time I’d sung without my guitar, so there was a bit of power behind it. Was this my Adele moment? There is the ever-present question of why and how, looking towards the past, and facing the future. Nostalgia in song form.
Was it you who dreamed to me?
So what felt at the time like a bit of a rut, a nothing time, an uninspired time, ended up being a whole album’s worth of songs. Enter Now Brightness. It sometimes works like that. Anyway, let the song and the whole process forever remain a mystery.”
Nadia Reid is playing NZ/AU 2025 Summer Tour dates
Fri 05 Dec – Christchurch – The Piano
Sat 06 Dec – Auckland – Powerstation
Wed 10 Dec – Sydney – Vanguard
Thu 11 Dec – Melbourne – Howler
Fri 12 Dec – Wellington – Meow Nui
Fri 19 Dec – Dunedin – Regent Theatre
Tickets on sale from www.banishedmusic.com
Praise for Nadia Reid
“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
“There’s a questing robustness to these songs, a sense of somebody finally having the perspective to seek out answers to long-hanging questions.” – ★★★★ – MOJO
“Impressively, the lustrous-voiced Reid has changed tracks without derailing the train” – Uncut
Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness
Out now via Chrysalis Records
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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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