Nadine Shah shares new single ‘Twenty Issues’

Nadine Shah has launched ‘Twenty Issues’, the second single from her upcoming full-length, ‘Filthy Beneath’. 

Upon a hypnotic groove, dramatic piano stabs and a depressing sonic environment, Shah recounts varied vibrant characters who seem to cover darker secrets and techniques. Within the second verse, she sings: “They’re laying flowers by the bus cease / Some poor outdated junkie’s lucks up  / Took a person and lady on the identical day  / His proper leg shorter than the opposite / The second eldest brother  / Goes to see his mom each Sunday ”. 

In a press launch, Shah expressed that the sombre monitor was impressed by a slate of characters she encountered “while in restoration”. “No-one tells you that you simply’ll find yourself feeling so deeply for the individuals you meet there,” she wrote. “What makes it extra intense is the truth that , statistically, that not everybody goes to make it as soon as they’ve left the place.”

“Among the most unspeakable issues had occurred to those individuals and equally a few of the most heinous issues had been executed by them. You’re supposed to like the sinner and hate the sin. I liked all of them,” she added.

Watch Shah’s principally black-and-white video for the monitor, directed by Sel MacLean, under:

Along with releasing ‘Twenty Issues’, Shah has introduced a five-date headlining tour throughout the UK in Spring 2024, starting in Newcastle’s Boiler Store on April 26, and concluding in London’s Heaven on Could 2. The total checklist of Nadine Shah’s 2024 tour dates is listed under. Tickets will be purchased from her official website.

‘Filthy Beneath’ is the singer-songwriter’s fifth full-length album, and can be helmed by longtime producer and co-writer, Ben Hillier. It’s scheduled for launch on February 23, 2024, and would be the first launch from EMI’s North label, which operates in Leeds as the primary main British label primarily based exterior of London.

‘Twenty Issues’ follows the album’s lead single, ‘Topless Mom’, which was launched in October. Concerning the monitor’s inspiration, Shah commented: “It’s a track a few counsellor I labored with that I couldn’t get together with. I’m fairly sure the sensation was mutual. And I’m additionally fairly sure she’d discover this humorous.”

Shah has been taking part in a handful of preview exhibits within the lead-up to the discharge of ‘Filthy Beneath’, together with dates in Brighton, Glasgow and London, apart from supporting Younger Fathers on their UK dates.

Nadine Shah’s 2024 UK headlining tour dates are: