NINA NESBITT RELEASES NEW ALBUM
NINA NESBITT RELEASES NEW ALBUM ÄLSKAR
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OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW FOCUS TRACK, ‘I SHOULD BE A BIRD’ – OUT NOW
Nina Nesbitt releases her eagerly anticipated new album ‘Älskar’ via Cooking Vinyl. Highlights of the album campaign have so far included exceeding the phenomenal career landmark of a billion streams, as well as playing two huge European stadium shows as guests to Coldplay, which saw her duet with Chris Martin on ‘Let Somebody Go’. The record builds upon the huge success of her 2019 set ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’ which took her to a global audience and won influential fans such as Taylor Swift.
Speaking about the new album, Nina reveals, “‘Älskar’ is about love in all its raw forms, whether that be my relationship, family, friends, or learning to love myself. I really like the dynamics of the album. It has that Swedish feel to it, as I got to work with a lot of my idols from the pop scene there. But it also has a Scottish element too - the storytelling and the folk - which influenced the other half of it.”
As we’ve heard from singles such as ‘When You Lose Someone’ and ‘Pressure Makes Diamonds’, ‘Älskar’ switches confidently between confessional, emotionally-charged songwriting, and instantly addictive modernist pop bangers. The record’s new focus track ‘I Should Be A Bird’ comes from its introspective side, its acoustic guitar melody providing the backdrop for a lyric which tackles the complicated emotions of being an empath and trying to set boundaries when those close to you are struggling. As Nina explains, “My first reaction is to help them through it but sometimes you can make it worse by being there too much.” The song is accompanied by a Wolf James-directed official music video, which was filmed with the beautiful natural scenery of the Brecon Beacons mountain range in South Wales.
Watch the official video for ‘I Should Be A Bird' HERE.
The project commenced when Nina visited her family in Sweden. It was a trip which also provided an opportunity to work with a range of talent from the nation’s music scene, including Elvira Anderfjärd (best known for her Taylor Swift remixes), Jack & Coke (Tove Lo, Carly Rae Jepsen). The two roots of Nina’s family heritage bookend the album. The tone-setting ‘Gaol’ (Scottish-Gaelic for ‘love’) is a collage of voice-notes from fans, each saying “I love you” in languages ranging from Estonian to Korean, while the gorgeously cinematic title track nods to Sigur Rós.
There are numerous other new highlights set to be discovered by fans, including the beat-driven, hedonistic romance of ‘Teenage Chemistry’ and the stuttering, playful pop that bounces within ‘Limited Edition’. But it never shies away from confronting issues head on. ‘Older Guys’, for example, is a song about the changing perceptions of love. What may have felt exciting and rebellious when you were younger, now just feels different with more life experience under the belt.
Nina wrote or co-wrote all twelve songs that feature on ‘Älskar’ and has production credits on half of the record. Her other collaborators include top tier songwriter Dan Wilson (Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’) and Grammy-winning mixer Manon Grandjean (Stormzy, Dave).
Nina’s new music follows the huge global fanbase she established with her second album ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’. The album amassed a staggering half-a-billion streams including for the now classic ‘Loyal To Me’ which was Top 10 most added at Top 40 radio and propelled her into Spotify’s top 500 artists in the world. The track, which Nina performed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (her US late night TV debut), earned acclaim from the likes of Marie Claire who praised the album for its “Joyful, dance-y pop with wrenching indie ballads, displaying a newfound maturity in the…songwriting,”and Billboard Magazine who hailed it "an iridescent work of pop mastery, showcasing Nesbitt’s proficiency as a songwriter, vocalist and producer,” with V Magazine proclaiming, “’The Sun Will Come Up’… captures the precise moment an artist finds herself blossoming into a full-blown pop star.”
This Fall, Nina will embark on a UK and European tour with plans to return to the US in 2023. Stay tuned for news and updates. To see where Nina is playing live, please visit her official website: www.ninanesbittmusic.com/tour/.
Nina Nesbitt’s new album, Älskar is out now. Listen HERE.
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‘Älskar’ tracklist:
‘Gaol’
‘Teenage Chemistry’
‘No Time (For My Life To Suck)’
‘Pressure Makes Diamonds’
‘Dinner Table’
‘When You Lose Someone’
‘I Should Be A Bird’
‘Colours of You’
‘Limited Edition’
‘Older Guys’
‘Heirlooms’
‘Älskar’
“One type of winning pop song lets the vocalist unleash rapid-fire, world-clutter verses before pulling back into a succinct chorus; think Savage Garden’s ‘I Want You.’” - Billboard
“Captures the dichotomy between life’s beauty and existential paranoia.” - Consequence
“A lovely twirl of retro-synth and magnetic modern pop, all about the highs and lows that come with surviving on the daily.” - Vanyaland