Today marks an exciting release day for music fans with fresh albums dropping from three standout artists. Nina Nesbitt delivers her latest work, Mountain Music (The Summit), a reflective and genre-blending journey that showcases her evolution as a singer-songwriter. Sam Fender returns with People Watching, his third album, expanding his anthemic storytelling into broader, universal themes with a polished yet gritty edge. Meanwhile, The Murder Capital unleash Blindness, a raw and intense offering that signals a bold new chapter for the Dublin post-punk outfit. Together, these releases promise a dynamic mix of introspection, energy, and artistry to kick off the weekend.
NINA NESBITT – MOUNTAIN MUSIC (THE SUMMIT) DELUXE EDITION
Nina releases the deluxe edition ‘Mountain Music (The Summit)’. Listen HERE.
The new deluxe edition features four new tracks including the BBC Radio 2 supported ‘Enough’, ‘The Mountain & The Man’, ‘Good Years’ and new fan favourite ‘Crooked Teeth’ – a song which reminds you to lean into your relationships despite their flaws and through all of life’s challenges. Each track is accompanied by a new live session video at Middle Farm Studios as part of the Mountain Music Sessions.
‘Mountain Music’ is a record in which authenticity flows through every moment. Its impetus was a moment of crisis: Nina had become overwhelmed by the need to be always active on social media and realised it was a huge distraction from her songwriting. So instead she paused and went back to basics. What emerged was a set of songs which were informed by the Americana and folk music that she has always loved. Their narratives also became more personal than ever. She reflected on everything that has happened in her life: growing up in a small Scottish village, breaking into music while living in the bustle ofLondon, and now looking back at all of her life experiences from her new home in the countryside.
SAM FENDER – PEOPLE WATCHING
Sam Fender today releases his third album, the critically acclaimed People Watching. It follows 2021’s chart-topping Seventeen Going Under and is released via Polydor Records. Listen now.
Now solidified as one of Britain’s most accomplished songwriters of his generation and the next, if Seventeen Going Under was Sam’s “coming of age” record, People Watching is his next step forward – colourful stories and observations of everyday characters living their everyday, but often extraordinary, lives.
The British artist recently announced three big outdoor shows in Manchester (Wythenshawe Park), Edinburgh’s Summer Sessions (at Royal Highland Showgrounds), and Belfast as part of the VITAL series (at Boucher Road Playing Fields) in August. For a full list of Sam’s confirmed live dates, including four stadium shows, please see below. Tickets for all shows are on general sale now, with a sold out tour of Europe kicking off in March.
MURDER CAPITAL – BLINDNESS
‘Blindness’ is the vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album from The Murder Capital. A record that’s both momentous and charged with momentum. That’s full of geography – of the mind, and of a Dublin-formed band whose members are now scattered around Ireland, London and Europe – yet bristles with the intense energy of an album finely wrought in three pacy weeks in the studio in Los Angeles. That’s intimate and simultaneously expansive. Eleven songs that don’t hang about in terms of grabbing the listener. It follows the critically acclaimed ‘Gigi’s Recovery’ and their debut album, 2019’s ‘When I Have Fears’.
‘Blindness’ finds the band re-energised after previous years of heavy touring after recording the album in LA with the Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton who the band previously worked with on ‘Gigi’s Recovery’. The tracks came together quickly, in intense and fast paced sessions that prioritized urgency, energy and freshness. “He wanted us not to start layering any tracks or anything like that, just phone-record everything. That was so that, by the time we got to the studio, no song was suffocated by what it needed to be. It was more about what the song could be.” says frontman James McGovern.
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