Nina Nesbitt
Scottish singer and songwriter Nina Nesbitt has announced a tour in support of her new album Mountain Music, don't miss her live at the Old Fruitmarket on Friday 18th October!
About Nina Nesbitt
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 – championed by stars including Taylor Swift and Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon – 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, TheApple Tree, this marks the start of an exciting new era for Nina Nesbitt.
Nina explains, “I think across the record in general, there's a lot of that inner child versus the adult side of me, and a push and pull which I think I guess is part of the coming-of-age experience”. This is joined by themes of identity, which for her has “always been a weird one – I grew up with Swedish culture while in the UK, so I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider.”
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.
Nesbitt, who performed a duet with Chris Martin after opening for Coldplay in 2022, at the 50,000-capacity Hampden Park in Glasgow, pays homage to the rock band’s classic album Parachutes, in those soft touches of piano and the sweet strumming of the mandolin. It builds gradually like the incoming tide, rising to a powerful crescendo.
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 its 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.
Nesbitt knows exactly who she is, and now, she’s ready to tell the world.
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