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Enter Now Brightness feels different for Nadia. It is an

album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has

reminded her how songwriting can be "the most useful

thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and

anger." That through music we can find great change. "I'm

so much better off now that it exists,"she says. "Now feels

like a new time." On this record, Reid moves ever further

from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that

is distinctly her own.

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 it's title from a passage in a

book Reid was reading from a line that seemed to call out

to her from the page: 'Brightness entered the study.' "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."

"[Nadia] embraces a full bodied sound halfway between

Haim's sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten's

full-throated songcraft" - The Guardian