Nadia Reid - New Single 'Moment By' Out Today

Following the release of her fourth album 'Enter Now Brightness' in February, Nadia Reid has today released a new single, ‘Moment By’.

On the songs conception, one that Reid believes “belongs on the album”, but couldn’t quite make fit:

“It’s a bit of a blur. The song began in the heat of the pandemic. I’d been given some special brownies by a friend (delivered to the postbox) and was enjoying my daily allocation of walking around Chingford Park in the North East Valley, Dunedin, with my dog, Joni (more on the darling dog another time). I was thinking a lot about childhood (I’d gone to a Steiner School on the edge of the park), and about the world. My year of touring had evaporated, and yet, despite the risks that were increasing, I felt very content in the valley.

A year or so later, after the birth of my first daughter, I wrote the opening phrase in my small studio (a humble room with a circular ship-like window that overlooked one of my childhood houses) and recorded a simple demo on my phone to take to Tom (Healy), who was producing my album.

Songwriting will forever remain a mystery to me, but what I can say about this song is that it was the first time I’d sung without my guitar, so there was abit of power behind it. Was this my Adele moment? There is the ever-present question of why and how, looking towards the past, and facing the future. Nostalgia in song form.

Was it you who dreamed to me?

So what felt at the time like a bit of a rut, a nothing time, an uninspired time, ended up being a whole album's worth of songs. Enter Now Brightness. It sometimes works like that. Anyway, let the song and the whole process forever remain a mystery.”

track listing
1. Moment By - Nadia Reid (04:40)
Release date: Wednesday 25th June

This December, Nadia journeys back to New Zealand and Australia for 6 shows in celebration of Enter Now Brightness; her critically lauded fourth album which was released on Chrysalis and Slow Time 2025.

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