Nick Mulvey Releases New Mythology
New Album Out Today on Verve Forecast
Headlines London’s Koko Tonight
Plays Glastonbury Festival on June 24 with N. American Dates in July
New Mythology is the third album from Mercury Prize-nominated artist Nick Mulvey and his first in 5 years. Out today on Verve Forecast (Fiction Records in the UK), the record was recorded in Paris with renowned producer Renaud Letang (Manu Chao, Feist, Connan Mockasin) and is a stunning 13 track collection brimming with Nick’s innate musicality and insatiable curiosity about the connection between humans and the planet we live on. The album was featured this morning on NPR’s New Music Friday, with Robin Hilton saying It might be my favorite record of the week…almost like living room recordings that start very quiet but then they’ll bloom in these beautiful ways." “The Gift” was also just featured as a Song of the Day on KUTX and Mulvey’s interview with Variance Magazine ran yesterday.
Journeys come in a myriad of forms. Nick Mulvey knows this, he’s been on many since he released his sophomore album Wake Up Now. Be it a change in geographical scenery – a physical move of home from the UK to Ibiza, and back – to the sea-sawing wonder and vulnerability of the everyday human experience; in this case becoming a father and navigating the pandemic. Most pertinent though, when it comes to his powerful songwriting, has been his journey to compute the scope and scale of his feelings: an attempt to embody the personal all the way to the planetary – and grasp their true inseparability.
“If there’s one word that sums up what this album is about, it’s ‘interbeing’” he says of New Mythology. In these times of urgent crisis and great opportunity for the earth, these are songs that recognize the symbiosis between family and friends, land and trees, soil and sky. However, they’re not just love letters to our environs, they're also enlightened and balanced – stories that recognize the peril of our heating planet but also celebrate the re-emerging, ancient ways of relating to the world and each other.”
Nick Mulvey has come a long way since the release of his critically acclaimed debut album First Mind in 2014. A musician, composer and producer, he has amassed a staggering 587 million streams globally, the equivalent of half a million albums sold and has completely sold out his first headline UK tour since before the pandemic, including his headline show at London’s Koko.
“I’ve given my absolute best with this album and I’m truly overjoyed to release it now. In collaboration with a raft of wonderful people, and indeed with energies beyond my rational understanding, I have made an album I’m deeply proud of. I know New Mythology is good vitamins for these strange and challenging days and I hope it’s of use to all who hear it. “Out of my dreams, there came a warning…” Nick x”
New Mythology tracklisting
1. A Prayer of My Own
2. Star Nation
3. Mecca
4. Brother To You
5. Shores of Mona
6. The Gift
7. Sea Inside (Third Way)
8. Causes
9. Another Way To Be
10. Mona
11. Interbeing Part 1
12. Begin Again (Love You Just The Same)
13. Star Nation (Acoustic)
NICK MULVEY PLAYS:
June 7th - King Tut's, Glasgow
June 9th – Gorilla, Manchester
June 10th – KOKO, London
July 11th - Mercury Lounge, New York NY
July 13th - The Drake, Toronto ON
July 15th - Moroccan Lounge, Los Angeles CA
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