This December acclaimed songwriter Nadia Reid journeys back to New Zealand and Australia in celebration of Enter Now Brightness; her critically lauded fourth album which was released on Slow Time Records in Aotearoa and Chrysalis for the rest of the world in February 2025.
December 5 / Christchurch / The Piano
December 6 / Auckland / The Powerstation
December 10 / Sydney / Vanguard
December 11 / Melbourne / Howler
December 12 / Wellington / Meow Nui
December 19 / Dunedin / Regent Theatre
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The Manchester-based expatriate New Zealander is known for her ruminative and well-crafted folk-inflected songwriting, and with Enter Now Brightness she presents a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy.
Praise for Nadia Reid
“[Nadia] embraces a full-bodied sound halfway between Haim’s sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten’s full-throated songcraft” – The Guardian
“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
On this record, Reid moves ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own. “I still feel uncomfortable about the word folk and being a folk singer. It makes me sort of cringe,” she says. “It’s too confining.” She has grown weary, too, of all the inevitable likenings, to Mitchell and Dylan and more.
Since ‘Out of My Province” (2020), Reid toured the record as best she could and put on hold her plans to move to the UK. In July of 2021, she gave birth to her first daughter, Elliotte; her second, Goldie, arrived Spring 2024. Shortly before, Reid finally relocated to the UK, settling in Manchester.
Enter Now feels different. It is an album she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” That through music we can find great change. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”
Nadia Reid – Hold It Up [Official Music Video]
Nadia Reid – Hotel Santa Cruz [Official Music Video]
Nadia Reid – Baby Bright [Official Music Video]
Nadia Reid – Changed Unchained [Official Music Video]
Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness
Released February 7th, 2025
on Slow Time Records in Aotearoa
Enter Now Brightness Tracklist
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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