Letters I Wrote And Never Sent

by Nadia Reid

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Dirk Johannes Bülles I can’t believe how outstanding your early songs are.

THE FRONTLINE is breathtaking!

I would love to enjoy the songs on vinyl! Worth a thought?

theUtmost Thanks for sharing this with us Nadia 🫶
Hard to pick a fave.
No Good Talking Man, cello, FTW! 🤗 vs The Frontline (Oh Well) - I really like the composition & think your voice is particularly strong. Rise and Fall won because in it I hear the genesis of your signature sound 🔥.
There are some big feelings in here, for sure. I Will Never Cut My Ties hits hard for me.
I realised that if I ever walked into a bar & spied you there I'd buy you a drink with no hesitation, so, virtually, cheers! 🍻 Favorite track: Rise and Fall.

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1.	No Good Talking Man 04:27
2.	I Will Never Cut My Ties 04:36	info
3.	The Frontline (Oh Well) 03:59
4.	Young Girl/Mothers Lying Heart 04:06
5.	Rise and Fall 04:50	lyrics
the rise and fall it comes down and i had it all it looks like this we had a plan to leave this house and make a stand for all that counts now every morning i rise face myself in the mirror and sigh swallow down months of pride and leave you behind me the rise and fall it comes down and i had it all it looks like this time is wasting away i am wasting away

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Note from Nadia:

Ok — this may not last too long, but I’ve put my first EP, *Letters I Wrote And Never Sent*, back up on Bandcamp to stream and download (for pay-as-you-like).

I revisited the EP after one of my followers (on Substack) had asked about it. I’m so desperately young and in pain. I was 18.

I met Tim Moore after opening for the band Von Klap while still at high school. He took me under his wing, so to speak. Then I met Ben Edwards, who changed the course of my life. He was the first grown man I’d met who was outwardly kind and funny. It radiated out of him.

I had no money, but I had a couple of songs.

“Let’s do it,” he said. “We’ll work it out.”

Simon Gregory, Mike Fordham, Tim, Ben, and I met up in a studio in the middle of Christchurch’s CBD. It was still in a wasteland state post-earthquake. Folks (including myself) were still traumatised, and it came out in ways I think only the gift of time and perspective can make sense of.

I was nervous to sing and nervous in a studio setting. I didn’t know jack shit. But the life of song had taken hold of me.

Listening back now — it sounds of that time. 2011. Of learning how to be a young adult, of my brain still forming, of relationships ending and starting.
I went on to make two studio albums with Ben, and even though we’re not in touch so much these days, I owe him a huge amount. He took a chance on me.

I think there is something in these melodies and lyrics. A vulnerability. Some truth.

Anyway, be quick, because I’ll very likely take it down again. Ha.

x

The letters I wrote and never sent were written between 2008-2011, and recorded July 2011 in Christchurch, NZ.

Produced by Ben Edwards & Tim Moore
All songs written by Nadia Reid-O'Reilly
Tim Moore - Organ (Electric guitar & BV's in No Good Man)
Simon Gregory - Electric guitar
Mike Fordham - Drums & Cello in Rise & Fall

Artwork by Harley Jones.

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released October 27, 2011

Recorded and mixed by Ben Edwards.
Produced by Tim Moore and Ben Edwards.

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“When I hear a young artist making an album as soulful and rich and self-possessed as ‘Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs’, I feel so thrilled not only for the existence of that record but for all the music they will make over all the years to come”.
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Dec 5

The Piano

Christchurch, New Zealand
Dec 10

The Vanguard

Newtown, NSW
Dec 11

Howler

Brunswick, VIC

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