Enter Now Brightness (Vinyl LP)

Lately, Nadia Reid has been thinking about the past decade. “Ten years of documenting my life in song,” is one way she describes it. “The highest privilege” is another. With the recording and announcement of her fourth album, Enter Now Brightness, released 7th February on her own Slow Time Records in Aotearoa and new international label, Chrysalis Records for the rest of the world has come a reassessment of so many moments across those years. “You have points in life that when you look back you see were a time of almost cellular change,” she says; a realisation now that so many of these new songs have been drawn from the times when “all my cells were changing.”

Much had changed since Out of My Province, the album she released in early March 2020. Reid toured the record as best she could, she put on hold her plans to move to the UK, attended to the steady rhythms of living. In July of 2021, she gave birth to her first daughter, Elliotte; her second, Goldie, arrived this past Spring. Shortly before, Reid finally relocated to the UK, settling in Manchester.

Enter Now Brightness is a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. Reid was pregnant during its creation, and plagued by morning sickness — there are photos of her asleep on the studio sofa and memories of vomiting between takes. But she found impending motherhood, and, later, the intricate process of raising her daughter, brought a new focus for songwriting. It runs through the tracks on Enter Now — including the exquisite new single ‘Baby Bright’.

Tracklist

1. Emmanuelle
2. Cry On Cue
3. Baby Bright
4. Hold It Up
5. Changed Unchained
6. Second Nature
7. Even Now
8. Hotel Santa Cruz
9. Woman Apart
10. Send It Down The Line