NINA NESBITT - Mountain Music - LP - Red Vinyl [SEP 27]

LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Red Vinyl. 

Mountain Music is Nina Nesbitt as fans have never heard her before. Having risen to fame at a young age with her disarming, candid pop - the Scottish musician is now found in an entirely new realm. It is inspired in part by the two years she spent touring the States in support of her second studio album: the critically acclaimed Top 40, The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, which has now accrued over a billion streams. These songs are permeated with gorgeous nods to US folk and Americana. It's made all the more extraordinary by the face that, not long ago, Nesbitt was considering quitting music altogether. 

 Produced by Peter Miles and Nesbitt, mixed and mastered by Miles at his stunning studio MiddleFarm in south Devon, and released via her own label, Apple Tree Records.  A playful nod to her 2012 debut EP, The Apple Tree, this marks the start of an exciting new era for Nina Nesbitt.   While it might sound strange that Nesbitt was drawn to the music of Appalachia, heard echoing through the vast, verdant mountain ranges of the eastern United States, it makes more sense when you consider how traditional Scottish ballads and hymns are threads in that rich tapestry.  Empathy is one of Nesbitt's greatest strengths. We hear it on "Painkiller", a Joni Mitchell-indebted ballad on which her heart breaks for the men who believe they have to suppress their own feelings. One of the album's standout qualities is, perhaps, the dynamic that Nesbitt creates from one song to the next. Where many folk artists might lean into quiet introspection, she craves the full spectrum of emotion - so ensconced around "Painkiller" you have the tender "On the Run', with it's distant shivers of percussion and crystalline piano, but also "Anger". She's in a nostalgic mood on the rousing "Coming Home", a Springsteen-inspired, driving-with-the-top-down journey back to the places and people she loves.   We all lose ourselves sometimes. The trick is learning how to find our way back, pushing those clouds away to see the blue skies beyond. For artist Nina Nesbitt, hard-hitting truths and revelations take precedent on her remarkable, career-best album, Mountain Music.  Nesbitt knows exactly who she is, and now, she's ready to tell the world.

“Hugely respected as a songwriter, Nina’s own work veers from gossamer chart-pop to dulcet folk and back again, a spectrum of self-expression that revels in honesty” – Clash

"Whipping up tender soundscapes laden with delicate percussion, she has basked in the limelight for interplaying folk storytelling with pop-y gooeyness to create a sound like no other… beautifully crafted, with sunken vocals sitting atop tenderly picked guitar and soft piano chords." – Notion

Tracklist: 

1. Pages
2. I'm Coming Home
3. Mansion
4. On The Run
5. Painkiller
6. Anger
7. Alchemise
8. Big Things, Small Town
9. Treachery
10. Hard Times
11. What Will Make Me Great
12. Parachute