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NZ Herald
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
NZ Listener's Songs of the Week: New tracks by Nadia Reid, The Beths, Ladyhawke, Georgia Lines and more
Moment By by Nadia Reid British-based Reid's recent album Enter Now Brightness indicated a confident shift away from folk into something more complex in emotional depth and arrangements. This magnetic single – from the opening piano chords and the steady build with percussion – confirms her vocal assurance
Scoop
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Nadia Reid Releases New Single 'Moment By'
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.'
Scoop
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Nadia Reid - New Single 'Moment By' Out Today
Following the release of her fourth album 'Enter Now Brightness' in February, Nadia Reid has today released a new single, 'Moment By'. On the songs 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 abit 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.' This December, Nadia journeys back to New Zealand and Australia for 6 shows in celebration of Enter Now Brightness; her critically lauded fourth album which was released on Chrysalis and Slow Time 2025.
The Guardian
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness review – a restorative balm of folk-tinged songwriting
There is something remarkably peaceful and restorative about Nadia Reid's fourth album; a feat that seems doubly impressive once you learn the singer-songwriter recorded it in the throes of morning sickness, her studio time punctuated by sofa naps and vomiting breaks. The end product shows absolutely no signs of struggle: in fact, this is the kind of unchallenging, beautiful music that seems capable of soothing many a malady. Admittedly, the comforting nature of Enter Now Brightness is partly a result of its familiarity. There are a couple of forays into period-specific nostalgia: a soft wash of trip-hop on Hold It Up; gated drums and gentle electric guitar on Changed Unchained. But the bedrock is gently melismatic vocals and acoustic guitar in the folk-tinged singer-songwriter tradition (think of Reid as a more genteel and jaunty Laura Marling) and the simplicity of the sound gives Reid's work a timeless quality. The 33-year-old – who broke through with her 2015 debut Listen to Formation, Look For the Signs, a collection of melancholic and offbeat Americana – owns these conventions thanks to her exquisite voice and deeply personal lyrics. Perhaps a little too personal; the sentiments that run through this album can be rather hard to parse, although a couple of clear themes do emerge: motherhood and moving away (she recently relocated from her native New Zealand to Manchester). If you're able to see your own experiences reflected in Reid's glimmering ambiguity, Enter Now Brightness will be a very reassuring companion indeed.
