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Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness review – a restorative balm of folk-tinged songwriting

Like a more genteel and jaunty Laura Marling, the singer-songwriter’s exquisite voice and timeless simplicity make her fourth album a very reassuring companion

There is something remarkably peaceful and restorative about Nadia Reid’s fourth album; a feat that seems doubly impressive once you learn the singer-songwriter recorded it in the throes of morning sickness, her studio time punctuated by sofa naps and vomiting breaks. The 33-year-old – who broke through with her 2015 debut Listen to Formation, Look For the Signs, a collection of melancholic and offbeat Americana – owns these conventions thanks to her exquisite voice and deeply personal lyrics. Perhaps a little too personal; the sentiments that run through this album can be rather hard to parse, although a couple of clear themes do emerge: motherhood and moving away (she recently relocated from her native New Zealand to Manchester).

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