February 7, 2025 • 6 mins
Nadia Reid has returned.
‘Enter Now Brightness’ is Reid’s fourth album, releasing five years after the last and coming from a period of reflection during the Covid lockdowns.
Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the release.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Loving You second nature to me, I was raised on
love and tchanquility. You want to know who.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That is?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Nadia read the song is second Nature. Her new album
is inter Now Brightness. She was with us this time
last week. So if you haven't heard our interview with Nadia,
made sure you go to Newstalks headb dot co dot
inz news Talks, head beat dot Coda inzeed you know
it and have a listen there. Estell Clifford has been
listening to intern Our Rightness. She's our music reviewer and
(01:02):
is with us this morning. Kilda in a.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
When I hear albums like this, I just know in
my future there's going to be a retro record player.
I'll have like this vast collection of actual physical LPs,
and albums like this will be on it. I'll be
slowly sipping coffee in the sun.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh just spak language.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And there's such a feel and a visual of what
that is that so many people can relate to. And
that is what this album is great for.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because it has that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That you need to listen to and kind of sink
into what think is the beautiful thing about being able
to sit and listen to an album and just kind
of soak it in and take your time with it
because it's an album that also that's what Nadia has
done to create it, and you can hear that in
its production. So if there's any chance that sometime this
weekend you can just be a little bit lazy, maybe
(01:55):
it's while you're getting ready or you're cooking genner or whatever,
to have this all nice and loud and just really
sink into what's going on. So that would be my
advice to absorb this music. It's really beautiful. That song there,
second Nature, probably one of the quieter songs, and it
does have that we well know Nadie read for acoustic
(02:15):
guitar and her voice sitting above that. But then it
sort of becomes this bigger, all encompassing kind of song,
and there's a bit more of that on this album.
So what I love about that song too is it
does have that kind of gentle tone about it, but
some of the lyrics and the story she's telling is,
you know, when a relationship becomes second nature, but actually
(02:36):
it's not really the one you should be in and
it's time to let it go and move off, you know,
like it's not always the great thing, but it's just
it's been there and it's your comfort, I suppose, and
sometimes actually you've got to re look at that comfort, which,
as you know from the interview you had with her,
a lot of her comfort's been shook up because she's
packed up the family and gone to the UK, and
(02:57):
so this album sort of crosses that divide, crosses that
change in her life of becoming a mom and what
is it to be a musician than an artist and
moved away miles away from everybody else. I mean, lots
of the songs were written before she's obviously got to
the UK, but change was constantly evolving for her, I think,
(03:17):
and to make those big changes. You definitely hear that
in this album. So I think that's quite a beautiful
thing to sort of stand with too. There's been sort
of quite a bit of chat around it being you know,
her comment on motherhood this album, but.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There's more than that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I think That's always the way with someone who's a
great lyricist and also really great at music. You don't
have to have experienced that yourself, or that's your focus,
you know, to enjoy what's going on with the music.
Hold it up as the real standout single, and I
think a lot of people attaching themselves to this because
it does sound a bit different for Nadia, like it's
(03:53):
got these awesome guitar slide, heaps of percussion and really
different stuff mixed in there. Stellar production is most of
the album actually has, but it's this layered thing that
really creates this quiet energy about it. It was written
in oh I think she wrote it in Dunedin, recorded
in Port Charmers and that the music video is shot
(04:15):
in p Har that black sandy, kind of dark tone
and it's really great because the story behind that is
she was meant to be catching a plane later that
day to head back to the UK, I think, and
then so they're sort of fighting that time restraint as
well as the thunderous clouds that are rolling in behind them.
That's really amazing dancer who's on the beach like dancing
(04:36):
of the scene while she's walking in it. So there's
kind of like this natural pressure that's happened behind that
which kind of goes with the song really perfectly. So
if you get a chance to watch the music video,
but I think Hold It Up as one of those
standout singles for people because of its energy and quite
sort of more poppy, almost some rock kind of guitar
in there as well. And this is good. This album
(04:58):
really showcases all of those versions of not having to
be a genre but all of it. You know, she
can pick up a rock guitar, she can sit at
the piano and the keys, or there's just this acoustic
sound like it's all of those things have been put
into this album, which I think is really great. My
five year old's really into Chained Unchained because it is
real rock guitari. I think I'm creating a little rock
(05:20):
rock star girl. But you know that's what I mean,
Like there's something in this kind of album for everybody
as well as some chilled out vibes. Eff that's where
you're kind of going as well.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Okay, oh sounds good, right, So what do you get?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Trying not to have brains faith this week?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Do your best?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's an eight out of ten for me. It's a
really solid album. Sit with it for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If you can, you know, Yeah, Okay, we're going to
listen to Hold it Up to We're gonna we're gonna
dig that one out. Yeah great, So if we can
have a bit of a listen to that. Thank you
so much and cash you again next week. Stell Clifford
Our Music Review, then eight out of ten she Reckons
for Into Now Brightness by Nadia Reed. Like I say,
we'll get out there being in single for you a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks it'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Loving You second nature to me, I was raised on
love and tchanquility. You want to know who.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That is?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Nadia read the song is second Nature. Her new album
is inter Now Brightness. She was with us this time
last week. So if you haven't heard our interview with Nadia,
made sure you go to Newstalks headb dot co dot
inz news Talks, head beat dot Coda inzeed you know
it and have a listen there. Estell Clifford has been
listening to intern Our Rightness. She's our music reviewer and
(01:02):
is with us this morning. Kilda in a.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
When I hear albums like this, I just know in
my future there's going to be a retro record player.
I'll have like this vast collection of actual physical LPs,
and albums like this will be on it. I'll be
slowly sipping coffee in the sun.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh just spak language.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And there's such a feel and a visual of what
that is that so many people can relate to. And
that is what this album is great for.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because it has that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That you need to listen to and kind of sink
into what think is the beautiful thing about being able
to sit and listen to an album and just kind
of soak it in and take your time with it
because it's an album that also that's what Nadia has
done to create it, and you can hear that in
its production. So if there's any chance that sometime this
weekend you can just be a little bit lazy, maybe
(01:55):
it's while you're getting ready or you're cooking genner or whatever,
to have this all nice and loud and just really
sink into what's going on. So that would be my
advice to absorb this music. It's really beautiful. That song there,
second Nature, probably one of the quieter songs, and it
does have that we well know Nadie read for acoustic
(02:15):
guitar and her voice sitting above that. But then it
sort of becomes this bigger, all encompassing kind of song,
and there's a bit more of that on this album.
So what I love about that song too is it
does have that kind of gentle tone about it, but
some of the lyrics and the story she's telling is,
you know, when a relationship becomes second nature, but actually
(02:36):
it's not really the one you should be in and
it's time to let it go and move off, you know,
like it's not always the great thing, but it's just
it's been there and it's your comfort, I suppose, and
sometimes actually you've got to re look at that comfort, which,
as you know from the interview you had with her,
a lot of her comfort's been shook up because she's
packed up the family and gone to the UK, and
(02:57):
so this album sort of crosses that divide, crosses that
change in her life of becoming a mom and what
is it to be a musician than an artist and
moved away miles away from everybody else. I mean, lots
of the songs were written before she's obviously got to
the UK, but change was constantly evolving for her, I think,
(03:17):
and to make those big changes. You definitely hear that
in this album. So I think that's quite a beautiful
thing to sort of stand with too. There's been sort
of quite a bit of chat around it being you know,
her comment on motherhood this album, but.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There's more than that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I think That's always the way with someone who's a
great lyricist and also really great at music. You don't
have to have experienced that yourself, or that's your focus,
you know, to enjoy what's going on with the music.
Hold it up as the real standout single, and I
think a lot of people attaching themselves to this because
it does sound a bit different for Nadia, like it's
(03:53):
got these awesome guitar slide, heaps of percussion and really
different stuff mixed in there. Stellar production is most of
the album actually has, but it's this layered thing that
really creates this quiet energy about it. It was written
in oh I think she wrote it in Dunedin, recorded
in Port Charmers and that the music video is shot
(04:15):
in p Har that black sandy, kind of dark tone
and it's really great because the story behind that is
she was meant to be catching a plane later that
day to head back to the UK, I think, and
then so they're sort of fighting that time restraint as
well as the thunderous clouds that are rolling in behind them.
That's really amazing dancer who's on the beach like dancing
(04:36):
of the scene while she's walking in it. So there's
kind of like this natural pressure that's happened behind that
which kind of goes with the song really perfectly. So
if you get a chance to watch the music video,
but I think Hold It Up as one of those
standout singles for people because of its energy and quite
sort of more poppy, almost some rock kind of guitar
in there as well. And this is good. This album
(04:58):
really showcases all of those versions of not having to
be a genre but all of it. You know, she
can pick up a rock guitar, she can sit at
the piano and the keys, or there's just this acoustic
sound like it's all of those things have been put
into this album, which I think is really great. My
five year old's really into Chained Unchained because it is
real rock guitari. I think I'm creating a little rock
(05:20):
rock star girl. But you know that's what I mean,
Like there's something in this kind of album for everybody
as well as some chilled out vibes. Eff that's where
you're kind of going as well.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Okay, oh sounds good, right, So what do you get?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Trying not to have brains faith this week?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Do your best?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's an eight out of ten for me. It's a
really solid album. Sit with it for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If you can, you know, Yeah, Okay, we're going to
listen to Hold it Up to We're gonna we're gonna
dig that one out. Yeah great, So if we can
have a bit of a listen to that. Thank you
so much and cash you again next week. Stell Clifford
Our Music Review, then eight out of ten she Reckons
for Into Now Brightness by Nadia Reed. Like I say,
we'll get out there being in single for you a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks it'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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