Nadia Reid Announces New Album Out of My Province To Be Released March 6 on Spacebomb Records

Today, Nadia Reid announces the March 6 release of Out of My Province, her first album with producers Trey Pollard (Foxygen) and Matthew E. White (Natalie Prass, The Mountain Goats) and debut for Spacebomb Records. Out of My Province showcases Nadia’s sharpest songwriting to date, atmospheric arrangements replete with strings and Rhodes, and of course that immense voice, alternately soothing and riveting.

No one ever got anywhere by standing still. As an artist, you must move to grow. It’s a sentiment Reid knows well. Leaving her beloved New Zealand for America to record Out of My Province with strangers, what she didn’t expect was a family awaiting her; teaming up with Spacebomb, her evocative travel tales push explorations of love, personal growth and deep reflection further than she ever thought possible. 

Lead single “Best Thing” is urgent and seismic. The song’s video, filmed on location in NZ, is set atop a vast and gorgeous black and white ocean landscape, as Nadia conveys a newfound power that is a sign of the impressive strides she’s taken as a songwriter on Out of My Province. Watch the video for “Best Thing” here: https://youtu.be/osWgE_Y5Z0M

“Out of My Province is definitely a travelling album; these are road songs,” says Nadia, of the album, written during a period of intensive touring following the release of her critically acclaimed 2017 LP, Preservation. “I felt inspired while I was moving and playing most nights. Sometimes good. Sometimes hard – there was this term I came up with called ‘digging for gold’ where some nights, you’d need to dig deeper for that feeling. During that time I felt really alive and useful.”

Between European tours, appearing on Later…with Jools Holland and singing with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Out of My Province is the sound of a young artist growing in profile and dexterity before international audiences and whose world has changed before her eyes. Finding herself halfway across the world in Richmond, VA, with only a nearby Kiwi pie shop to combat her homesickness, Nadia took to Spacebomb studios with long-term “musical rock” and guitarist Sam Taylor. They joined Cameron Ralston (electric and upright bass), Brian Wolfe (drums) Daniel Clarke (organ, piano, and keys), and producer Trey Pollard, who would arrange strings, horns, piano, and Rhodes to give the album a depth in sound Nadia had always imagined.

The album takes its title from an interview with one of Nadia’s favourite New Zealand authors, the late Janet Frame, in which the interviewer asks if she has considered the supposition that she is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, to which Frame uncomfortably replies, "That question doesn't reach me. It's out of my province." Explains Nadia, “I was so moved by her response for some reason. I am enamoured by her books. I can re-read them at any time and take such comfort from them. So ever since... out of my province. That phrase has never left me.”

Nadia Reid’s 2015 debut Listen To Formation Look For The Signs was called “wonderful” (MOJO) and “a startlingly good debut” (The Guardian). 2017’s Preservation is “no less bewitching” (Uncut), a “simply breathtaking” (Record Collector) follow-up that was named MOJO’s #2 album of that year and resulted in a stirring performance on Later…with Jools Holland.

Nadia has announced an extensive UK and European tour to accompany the release of Out Of My Province. U.S. dates, including performances at SXSW, will also be announced soon.

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Out of My Province Track List

1. All Of My Love

2. High & Lonely

3. Oh Canada

4. Heart To Ride

5. Other Side Of The Wheel

6. Best Thing

7. I Don’t Wanna Take Anything From You

8. The Future

9. Who Is Protecting Me

10. Get The Devil Out

Tour Dates

4.10.2020 Brighton (UK) The Hope & Ruin

4.11.2020 Bristol (UK) The Louisiana

4.13.2020 Glasgow (UK) The Old Hairdressers

4.14.2020 Manchester (UK) Band on The Wall

4.15.2020 Leeds (UK) Brudenell Social Club

4.16.2020 London (UK) Oslo

4.18.2020 Rotterdam (NL) Motel Mozaique Festival

4.20.2020 Hamburg (DE) Aalhaus

4.21.2020 Berlin (DE) Roter Salon

4.22.2020 Jena (DE) Trafo

4.24.2020 Vienna (AT) Haus der Musik

4.26.2020 Munich (DE) Glockenbachwerkstatt

4.27.2020 Zürich (CH) El Lokal

4.28.2020 Bern (CH) ISC Club

4.20.2020 Paris (FR), Le Pop-Up du Label

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