Kate Nash will release her new album ‘9 Sad Symphonies’ on June 21.
The LP is the first from the singer-songwriter in nine years – her fifth overall – and features new single Millions Of Heartbeats, plus recent release Change.
Of the new tune, she says “Millions Of Heartbeats is a song about losing your spark. It can be difficult to find hope in a world that’s constantly bombarding you with bad news, chaos and capitalism.
“It’s scary when you lose that spark and can’t lift yourself out of a pit. It can feel like that light you once had might never come back. The button to the song is that there’s millions of heartbeats on this planet and that’s the reason we have to try. All we have right now is earth and each other. And that’s actually a lot. So just keep trying.
“It’s about that point in the pandemic where I had lost my spark for life. And I’m a pretty sparky person, so it was really sad to me.”
Listen to Millions Of Heartbeats below.
‘9 Sad Symphonies’ is Nash’s first album to be released via US record label Kill Rock Stars and draws on “inspiration from old Hollywood glamour, vintage musicals, and the relentless pursuit of beauty in a chaotic world.”
Of the release, which reunites Nash with Danish producer Frederick Thaae, she adds: “We were in this completely different landscape for writing songs [on the musical], which was completely freeing.
“I was writing for a story, I was writing about a King and a Queen and a proper story arc. In that world you need the audience to understand the songs immediately, it’s very direct, and it has lots of editing which I’d never done. It changed my outlook on songwriting.
“Also, we said at the beginning that we wanted to make something beautiful, nothing harsh. I’ve done a lot of harsh stuff before. We wanted loads of beautiful string arrangements.”
In support of the release, she’ll hold a launch event at EartH in London on May 17, followed by a headline show on November 28 at KOKO.
Tickets for both are on sale now and ‘9 Sad Symphonies’ is available to pre-order here.
- Tracklist: Kate Nash – 9 Sad Symphonies
1. Millions of Heartbeats
2. Misery
3. Wasteman
4. Abandoned
5. Horsie
6. My Bile
7. These Feelings
8. Space Odyssey 2001
9. Ray
10. Vampyre
