Nadine Shah
NADINE SHAH ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM FILTHY UNDERNEATH OUT 23 FEBRUARY 2024 ON EMI NORTH
SHARES LEAD SINGLE ‘TOPLESS MOTHER’ANNOUNCES PREVIEW SHOWS AT LONDON’S LOWER THIRD ON 2 NOVEMBER, BRIGHTON AND GLASGOW IN OCTOBER
SPECIAL GUEST FOR YOUNG FATHERS TOUR IN OCTOBER
Listen to ‘Topless Mother’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomfW5nldVE
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Nadine Shah has today announced her fifth album Filthy Underneath will be released on 23 February as the inaugural release on EMI North. The follow up to 2020’s critically acclaimed Kitchen Sink and 2017’s Mercury Prize nominated Holiday Destination, the announcement comes alongside lead single ‘Topless Mother’ which was just premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music.
Speaking of the track Shah says:
“It’s a song about a counsellor I worked with that I couldn’t get along with. I’m pretty certain the feeling was mutual. And I’m also pretty certain she’d find this funny. Some people just don’t click and some arseholes like me write songs about it.”
Three years might seem like a prolonged absence to some people, but it’s also a period of time in which the apparatus that holds your world in place can be dismantled and reassembled so that you can keep living, keep creating. Filthy Underneath chronicles a period of unprecedented turbulence in Nadine Shah’s life. And yet, the experience of listening to it is oddly life-affirming – a parade of ghosts spanning the entirety of Nadine’s thirty-seven years, moving with balletic beauty to the music that Nadine and long-time co-writer and producer Ben Hillier have created around them, with renewed emphasis on placing melody and movement front and centre.
On the album’s sensational lead single ‘Topless Mother’, her double-tracked harmonies converge with a physically irresistible groove. Inspired by a series of comically tense exchanges with a counsellor, the song alights on that counsellor’s unorthodox tendency to burst into tears if she felt she wasn’t getting anywhere with her patient. The chorus trip-switching into a free-associative list of three-syllable words, the tone here is never less than no-fucks-given celebratory, an instant fan favourite to rub shoulders alongside her best.
Today, Shah has also announced that she will be playing special limited Filthy Underneath preview shows at London‘s Lower Third on 2 November and in Brighton and Glasgow in October . She’ll also be joining Young Fathers as a special guest on their October tour with shows in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Pre-order Filthy Underneath here:
https://nadine-shah.lnk.to/FilthyUnderneath
High-res images are available here.
Photo credit: Tim Topple
Tour dates:
19 Oct – Brighton @ Chalk
29 Oct – Glasgow @ King Tuts
21 Oct – London @ Eventim Apollo ^
28 Oct – Manchester @ Albert Hall ^
31 Oct – Edinburgh @ The Usher Hall ^
2 Nov – London @ Lower Third
^ – Special guest for Young Fathers
Full dates and tickets here:
https://nadineshah.co.uk/
Praise for Kitchen Sink:“Shah’s voice throughout is fantastic”
5/5 Mojo”
Shah’s strongest effort to date”
9/10 The Line of Best Fit
“Kitchen Sink superbly accomplishes its tightrope walk between contradictions, posing necessary questions whilst having its own wicked fun”
The Quietus ‘The Lead Review’
“Shah again demonstrates her fierce and thrilling originality”
The Sunday Times
“A fresh look at women’s woes from one who knows”
5/5 The Arts Desk
“Bolshy, uncompromising and demands to be played on repeat”
8/10 Uncut
“A fantastic return driven by ruthless honesty”
8/10 Clash
“An album about women that everyone needs to hear”
4/5 Evening Standard
“Shah spins society’s dirty secrets into dark, stylish songs”
4/5 Metro ‘The Big Release’
“A slow-burning joy”
4/5 The Observer
“A powerful voice”
4/5 NME
“Powerful and playful”
4/5 DIY
“Kitchen Sink manages to make the most intimate details of everyday life seem expansive and profound”
4/5 The Independent
“A set of funny, twisted, sharp-edged vignettes about the choices women face”
4/5 The Telegraph
“Courageous, diverse and freewheeling”
4/5 The Mirror‘4/5’
The FT
“A truthful account told in engrossing style”
4/5 MusicOMH
“It gets clearer with every release, but Nadine Shah is a truly special artist”
5/5 Narc
“Shah is becoming a master of articulating significantly important social and political issues through the vehicle of intriguing instrumentation and song writing”
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