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Last month, New Zealand singer and songwriter Nadia Reid announced her signing to Chrysalis Records and shared her single Changed Unchained. As promised, she has today revealed details of her new album, ‘Enter Now Brightness’, to be released on February 7th, 2025, followed by a UK/EU headline tour in March 2025 (details below).
Ten years have elapsed since the release of her remarkable 2015 debut Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs. “Ten years of documenting my life in song,” is one way she describes it. “The highest privilege” is another. Even since the release of her 2020 album Out of My Province, a lot has happened and changed—she gave birth to her first daughter, Elliotte, in 2021, and her second, Goldie, arrived this past Spring; shortly before this, she relocated to the UK, settling in Manchester.
One thing that hasn’t changed is the importance she attaches to songwriting. Enter Now Brightness reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” And how, 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.”
Enter Now Brightness is described as a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. Reid was pregnant during its creation and plagued by morning sickness—there are photos of her asleep on the studio sofa and memories of vomiting between takes. But she found impending motherhood, and later, the intricate process of raising her daughter brought a new focus for songwriting. It runs through the tracks on Enter Now, including the exquisite new single Baby Bright.
Talking about the song, she shares, “When my first daughter was born she had these massive bright blue eyes – she still does. And when she was born I did have this really intense drive to create – I felt very invigorated. Everything felt sharper and accessible and it all came to the surface.”
The video features Robyn Malcolm and DeeDee Comet.
Stream Baby Bright here: https://NadiaReid.lnk.to/BBTID
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.” The results find Reid moving ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own.
“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.”
Enter Now Brightness Track List
- 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
Enter Now Brightness is available to preorder now! https://NadiaReid.lnk.to/ENBID
Nadia Reid March 2025 UK/EU tour
03.03.25 BE, Antwerpen – Arenberg
04.03.25 DE, Hamburg – Aalhaus
05.03.25 DE, Berlin – Privatclub
06.03.25 NL, Amsterdam – Paradiso Upstairs
07.03.25 FR, Tourcoing – Le Grand Mix
08.03.25 FR, Paris – La Boule Noire
10.03.25 UK, London – EartH Theatre
11.03.25 UK, Brighton – CHALK
12.03.25 UK, Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
13.03.25 UK, Glasgow – Room 2
14.03.25 UK, Bangor – Court House
15.03.25 IE, Dublin – Whelans
17.03.25 UK, Nottingham – The Bodega
18.03.25 UK, Bristol – Strange Brew
19.03.25 UK, Manchester – YES (Pink Room)
Tickets on sale – HERE
