Nina Nastasia shares two new tracks
NINA NASTASIA SHARES TWO NEW TRACKS ‘WHATEVER YOU NEED TO BELIEVE’ AND ‘TOO SOON’
RIDERLESS HORSE, FIRST ALBUM IN 12 YEARS, OUT NOW VIA TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD WITH VINYL AVAILABLE TOMORROW (4 NOVEMBER)
“An astonishingly moving record”
5/5 The Observer
“Testament, after 12 long years, to Nastasia’s skills, the undimmed songwriter able to transform all the pain and horror into something indelibly beautiful”
5/5 Mojo
“Never less than compelling”
5/5 The Telegraph
“Harrowing, bleak but also warily hopeful and unexpectedly beautiful”
9/10 The Line of Best Fit
Listen to ‘Whatever You Need To Believe’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kvy4OBk0p8
Listen to ‘Too Soon’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHiO_-PyhvQ
Today, Nina Nastasia continues her extraordinary return with two new songs recorded during the same sessions that produced Riderless Horse, her enormously acclaimed new album – her first in over a decade. Read her conversation about the album with The Guardian here.
Nastasia offers the following words about each of these songs:
Whatever You Need To Believe: “It can be annoying to hear people talk about what exactly happens to a person when they die and then suggest things to do for that dead person in order for them to smoothly travel to the next destination in the afterlife, so they’re not trapped in a holding pattern. First and foremost, why do I have to take care of their travel plans. And second…well…what exactly have you chosen to have happen?”
Too Soon: “Aging is cruel. Nature is cruel. Beautiful but mean. Unlike this song, I won’t find some tall nice grass to lay myself down in to die. I will go out screaming and kicking. And if science can find some solution for the pains of aging and the bummer of dying, I’ll sign up for the clinical trials, but that’s a different song.”
Released in July, Riderless Horse is available on vinyl for the first time tomorrow (4 November), purchase here:
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/nina-nastasia/riderless-horse/vinyl-lp-clear-plus
Photo credit: Theo Stanley
High-res images can be found here
Praise for Riderless Horse:
“An astonishingly moving record”
5/5 The Observer
“Testament, after 12 long years, to Nastasia’s skills, the undimmed songwriter able to transform all the pain and horror into something indelibly beautiful”
5/5 Mojo
“Never less than compelling”
5/5 The Telegraph
“A record of powerful simplicity, and a stunning return”
4/5 ‘Album of the Month’ The Skinny
“Harrowing, bleak but also warily hopeful and unexpectedly beautiful”
9/10 The Line of Best Fit
“A deceptively sweet-hearted account of finding intimacy amid depression and a tempestuous relationship”
The Guardian
“Nastasia has not only reclaimed her voice and her drive to create after so many emotionally-punishing years, but also her agency over her art as a whole”
The Quietus
“Nastasia has never written with such vivid truthfulness, such earthen brutality”
85% ‘Recommended’ Beats Per Minute
“Melodies that circle easily until they snare you, like whirlpools, with dangerous dissonance”
4/5 The Independent
“Nastasia never flinches”
8/10 Uncut
“Nastasia has documented this period with such honesty, empathy and beauty”
4/5 MusicOMH
“Crushingly direct, laying out the details of her story without sacrificing the immense nuances of her prior work”
4/5 Our Culture
“An album of redemption and rebirth […] wonderful”
4.5/5 NARC
“You will be rewarded time and time again by its unflinching honesty. It is certainly good to have Nina Nastasia back”
God Is In The TV
“Riderless Horse is a one of a kind record from a one of a kind artist, and thankfully it promises more greatness to come”
Sound of Life