Nearly five years on from her last album Out of My Province, Nadia Reid is back with a new single and a bigger sound. It's been a time of profound transformation for the New Zealand-born singer/songwriter, who became a mom twice over and made a new home in the UK, where she has been putting the finishing touches to her as-yet-unannounced fourth album.

Her first release for the rejuvenated Chrysalis Records, "Changed Unchained" finds her moving further away from her acoustic roots. As Reid explains in the press release:

“I still feel uncomfortable about the word folk and being a folk singer. It makes me sort of cringe. It’s too confining. 'Changed Unchained' is a great example of me bringing lyrics and a melody into the studio, then Tom (Healy, producer) and the band letting the mojo/muse/spirit do its thing in the room. That was a really freeing feeling for me. The song begun in this delicate introspective way and formed into something quite powerful."

Watch the Shea McCrystal-directed video below:

Writing on her Substack back in June, Reid said she feels like she completed a trilogy with her first three albums, adding:

"this one feels like… a new moment in more ways than one. There’s a freedom and an ease. Each record I’ve made I say this is me in the drivers seat. Watch me - I’m arriving! And each time I’ve been partly wrong. Or maybe that’s just growth. You have to look at it in the rear view mirror."

Reid is currently in the middle of a sold-out UK tour, with a few dates left to play in London (tonight), Frome (tomorrow), and Penzance (Friday). She'll then head to New Zealand and Australia to see out the year.

Also announced today: a full European tour for March 2025, calling at:

03/03 Antwerp, Belgium @ Arenberg
03/04 Hamburg, Germany @ Aalhaus
03/05 Berlin, Germany @ Privatclub
03/06 Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso Upstairs
03/07 Tourcoing, France @ Le Grand Mix
03/08 Paris, France @ La Boule Noire
03/10 London, UK @ EartH Theatre
03/11 Brighton, UK @ Chalk
03/12 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
03/13 Glasgow, UK @ Room 2
03/14 Bangor, UK @ Court House
03/15 Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans
03/17 Nottingham, UK @ The Bodega
03/18 Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
03/19 Manchester, UK @ Yes (Pink Room)

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