On Leaving
Fatcat
INDIE
First album in two years from widely acclaimed and hugely talented singer/songwriter NINA NASTASIA. This hauntingly beautiful new album arrives perfectly formed and long overdue.
It's been over a year since the reissue of Nina's debut album, 'Dogs'- a record JOHN PEEL called "astonishing" - and two years since the 'Run To Ruin' album, which UNCUT magazine described as "Spare, beautiful, outstanding". Nina's fourth album, 'On Leaving', finds the hugely talented, NYC-based singer/songwriter signed to the FAT CAT label, one of the most forward thinking labels in the indie world.
Nina Nastasia's rare gift of a voice is an intimate, winged presence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart, that can powerfully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, suddenly summoning goose bumps. MOJO commented on its ability to "suck the air out of the room".
Picking over themes of love, longing and loss, childhood, dreams and human dramas, her beautifully concise, hook-laden song-writing and the spare arrangements of her band have a certain gritty, rustic charm and intensity. Simultaneously tough and fragile, her songs crackle and smoulder with an intimate emotional honesty and a dark undertow.
About the players: Nina Nastasia's long-standing peer relationship with engineer STEVE ALBINI who again recorded this album referred to this "as one of his all time favourite records".
Musical organizer KENNAN GUDJONSSON makes its fourth iteration here, and 'On Leaving' is realised as well by veteran members of Nina's band, DYLAN WILLEMSA (viola), JAY BELLEROSE (drums), STEVEN BECK (piano) and JIM WHITE (drums).
The gorgeously delicate cover artwork was cut by distinguished folk artist MARIE HELENE GRABMAN from a single piece of paper - a reflection of the music it contains, it's a skilful, simultaneously bold, fragile and elegant statement.
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Jims Room
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Brads Haunts A Party
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Our Day Trip
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Counting Up Your Bones
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Dumb I Am
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Why Don't You Stay Home
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One Old Woman
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Treehouse Song
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Lee
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Settling Song
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Bird Of Cuzco
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If We Go West
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