Nadia Reid's 'Hold it Up' Shines Bright
Nadia Reid
New single ‘Hold it Up’ and Video Out Now
In-stores weekend of release
February 7th – Resident Records, Brighton February 8th – Rough Trade West, London
Taken from ‘Enter Now Brightness’ Released February 7th 2025 on Chrysalis Records
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"Moving away from folk, the New Zealand songwriter embraces a full bodied sound halfway between Haim's sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten's full-throated songcraft." The Guardian
“Impressively, the lustrous-voiced Reid has changed tracks without derailing the train” Uncut
Nadia Reid has released ‘Hold it Up’, the latest single before the release of her forthcoming album Enter Now Brightness, out 7th February on Chrysalis Records.
Containing the finest songwriting of Reid’s career. 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.
It takes its title from a passage in a book Reid was reading from a line thatseemed to call out to her from the page: ‘Brightness entered the study.’
“I wrote that down,” she says. “It was the image of opening the curtain, or turning the light on, or of standing in the wings of a theatre and waiting to go on stage. It’s the idea of life beginning now.”
‘Hold It Up’ will also be accompanied by a beautiful music video shot on Piha Beach on the West Coast of Auckland, New Zealand, which you can watch here.
On the song Reid recalls “I remember I wrote this in lockdown in our house we’d bought at the end of 2019 in a suburb of Dunedin.
It was right on the hill, like a treehouse, on a very lovely, lush section… It’s the idea that I can be kind to anyone now, tenderness towards the whole world, of being in love with the world. it’s seeing humans, even people that I think I have nothing in common with, and thinking ‘You are somebody’s precious baby.’”
Album tracklist is below:
Emmanuelle
Cry On Cue
Baby Bright
Hold It Up
Changed Unchained
Second Nature
Even Now
Hotel Santa Cruz
Woman Apart
Send It Down The Line
In-stores weekend of release
February 7th – Resident Records, Brighton February 8th – Rough Trade West, London
March 2025 UK/EU tour
03.03.25 BE, Antwerpen - Arenberg
04.03.25 DE, Hamburg - Aalhaus
05.03.25 DE, Berlin - Privatclub
06.03.25 NL, Amsterdam - Paradiso Upstairs
07.03.25 FR, Tourcoing - Le Grand Mix
08.03.25 FR, Paris - La Boule Noire
10.03.25 UK, London - EartH Theatre
11.03.25 UK, Brighton - CHALK
12.03.25 UK, Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
13.03.25 UK, Glasgow - Room 2
14.03.25 UK, Bangor - Court House
15.03.25 IE, Dublin - Whelans
17.03.25 UK, Nottingham - The Bodega
18.03.25 UK, Bristol - Strange Brew
19.03.25 UK, Manchester - YES (Pink Room)
Tickets on sale - HERE
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