Nadine Shah announces Fast Food album, April tour

Watch the video for ‘Stealing Cars’ here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznUsKnRuSU

“It signals a clear-cut evolution for Shah” – The Line of Best Fit

“A heart stopping comeback” – DIY

Having earned an early reputation for that uniquely rich, soulful voice; Nadine Shah released her debut album Love Your Dum and Mad to critical acclaim in 2013. A stint on the road with Depeche Mode followed whilst opening for Bat for Lashes and playing live at Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label London Fashion Week show provided notable highlights on an extensive tour. Created with trusted collaborator and producer Ben Hillier, the excellent follow-up Fast Food is out on 6 April via Apollo / R&S Records.

Born from a fervent two-month writing session, Fast Food exists on a knife-edge – every bit as dramatic as we’ve come to expect from Nadine but with a sharpened eye for all things hook laden; retaining a brooding grandeur in its movements. Recorded live at Ben’s studio The Pool in South London, the album features contributions from guitarist Nick Webb and bassist Pete Jobson (of I Am Kloot fame).

Building on the bruised honesty and charm of its predecessor, Fast Food rings with the confidence of an artist completing their most coherent musical chapter to date. “The last album took so long to make that by the time it came out it didn’t feel like it was a very clear representation of where I was musically, but this time it’s different,” Nadine explains. Fast Food is a more concentrated effort: it is the sound of Nadine Shah as she is now – stepping out from behind the piano and growing with immeasurable confidence.

Fast Food is a reflection upon a world obsessed with instant gratification and a life full of complicated relationships, Nadine admits. “My favourite love stories are the unconventional ones. The ones that aren’t like rom-coms because those aren’t the real stories, that’s not how it actually happens. For years I had this romanticised ideal of what love would be. I thought it would be perfect and that I would always be someone’s first love but as you get older, people have been in love before. That’s a large part of what Fast Food is about, the sudden realisation that you’re never going to be anybody’s first love ever again.”

Fast Food will be available on vinyl, CD and via digital download (AMB1506). You can pre-order the album via Nadine’s website here as well as iTunes here.

Tickets links for Nadine’s April headline tour will go live on Wednesday 21 January. A pre-sale will be available via Nadine’s website here on Tuesday 20 January.

Fast Food tracklist:

1. Fast Food
2. Fool
3. Matador
4. Divided
5. Nothing Else To Do
6. Stealing Cars
7. Washed Up
8. The Gin One
9. Big Hands
10. Living

Live dates:

Tue 27 Jan London Sebright Arms SOLD OUT

Mon 06 Apr Brighton Resident, 6pm

Tue 07 Apr London Rough Trade East, 7pm FULL BAND SHOW

Wed 08 Apr Bristol Rise, 7pm

Thu 09 Apr Nottingham Rough Trade, 7pm

Fri 10 Apr Brighton The Haunt Tickets

Sat 11 Apr Gateshead Old Town Hall Tickets

Mon 13 Apr Glasgow King Tut’s Tickets

Tue 14 Apr Manchester Deaf Institute Tickets

Thu 16 Apr London Oslo Tickets

Fri 17 Apr Bristol Exchange Tickets

Sat 18 Apr Birmingham Rainbow Tickets

Praise for Love Your Dum and Mad:

“Love Your Dum and Mad is astonishingly coherent”
‘Album of the Week’ Sunday Times

“It’s utterly magnetic. There are few albums that will make you experience so many emotions concurrently, and even fewer that will still give you chills hours later”
8/10 ‘Album of the Week’ The Line of Best Fit

“An assured launch of a career that will provoke and explore in the style of Bjork or PJ Harvey”
‘Stand Out Album’ 4/5 Daily Mirror

“Cosy and cataclysmic all at the same time, this is one of the most compelling expressions of Great British gothic since Morrissey made a date at the cemetery gates”
4/5 Time Out

“Subtle electronics and the creation of desolate, 3-D spaces is the icing on a seductively ruined cake”
8/10 Uncut

“A piercingly direct seduction of the senses”
4/5 Mojo

“The voice of a goddess”
4/5 Evening Standard

“Nadine Shah’s voice is a revelation”
4/5 The Skinny

“A dark, delicious masterpiece”
Diva

“An extraordinarily delectable noise to behold”
London in Stereo

“Her dark tales of lust, loss and vengeance bring to mind Broken English-era Marianne Faithfull and are due belated critical acclaim”
The Guardian

“(Love Your Dum and Mad) retains a dynamism through Shah’s magnetic voice”
7.9 Pitchfork