Los Angeles-based musician Nick Waterhouse has announced his new self-titled album set for March 8th release via Innovative Leisure. Following 2016’s ‘Never Twice’ which was hailed by Vogue as “the second coming of soul” and earned Nick a performance on ‘Later’ with Jools Holland, the new album was recorded at LA’s legendary Electro-Vox Recorders, and co-produced with Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St. Paul and the Broken Bones), with backing from a heavy bevy of friends and session players including Bart Davenport, percussionist Andres Renteria (Flying Lotus, Father John Misty), flutist Ricky Washington (Kamasi’s dad), and saxophonists Paula Henderson (Gogol Bordello) and Mando Dorame (JD McPherson).
The scorched earth first single ‘Song For Winners’ has been released and can be heard below. Drawing inspiration from British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Nina Simone, the knockout track combines a feral R&B howl with elegant touches of club jazz with 60’s soul.
Mary Anne Hobbs had the first play of the track on her new morning show on BBC 6 Music as her ‘Near Future’ feature, explaining how she’s “always loved the way he creates this atmosphere of swirling noir.”
Nick will head out on a run of European and UK headlining live dates in support of his upcoming album. See below for a full list of dates.
2019 UK + European Live Dates:
March 18th – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
March 21st – London, UK – 229 The Venue
March 23rd – Brussels, BE – Botanique-Orangerie
March 24th – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
March 26th – Hamburg, DE – Mojo Club
March 27th – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theatre
March 28th – Amsterdam, NL – Het Zonnehuis
March 30th – Athens, GR – Fuzz Live Music Club
March 31st – Thessaloniki, GR – Fix Factory of Sound
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The 11-song collection features ten new Waterhouse originals, plus a deep cover of ‘I Feel An Urge Coming On,’ originally written by Nick’s friend and mentor Joshie Jo Armstead, who has previously written with Ray Charles and performed as both a Raelette and an Ikette in the 1960s and 70s.
There’s a reason why Nick chose to name this, his fourth album, his self-titled release. While he has always had a “style is all his own” according to NPR, this album is a deeper reflection of the cultural and emotional firmament that has made Nick the artist he is today: his passions and influences; his love and outrage. The music of Irma Thomas and Chico Hamilton; the films of Robert Siodmak and Adam Curtis. The good old bad days in San Francisco, Detroit, and Los Angeles. It’s an intoxicating world, and this album invites you to get lost in it.
Since releasing his debut single in 2010, Nick Waterhouse has toured the world (most recently on an extensive run with Allen Stone), and collaborated with or produced everyone from upstarts like Ty Segall, Leon Bridges and Jon Batiste, to septuagenarian soul legend Ural Thomas, and Latin stars the Boogaloo Assassins.
‘Nick Waterhouse’ Tracklisting:
1. By Heart
2. Song For Winners
3. I Feel an Urge Coming On
4. Undedicated
5. Black Glass
6. Wreck the Rod
7. Which Was Writ
8. Man Leaves Town
9. Thought & Act
10. El Viv
11. Wherever She Goes (She Is Wanted)
NICK WATERHOUSE 2019 TOUR DATES:
Monday, March 18th – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Thursday, March 21st – London, UK – 229 The Venue
Saturday, March 23rd – Brussels, BE – Botanique-Orangerie
Sunday, March 24th – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
Tuesday, March 26th – Hamburg, DE – Mojo Club
Wednesday, March 27th – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theatre
Thursday, March 28th – Amsterdam, NL – Het Zonnehuis
Saturday, March 30th – Athens, GR – Fuzz Live Music Club
Sunday, March 31st – Thessaloniki, GR – Fix Factory of Sound
Thursday, April 25th – Santa Ana, CA -Marty’s on Newport
Friday, April 26th – Los Angeles, CA- Regent
Saturday, April 27th – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Monday, April 29th – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Tuesday, April 30th – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
Wednesday, May 1st – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
Friday, May 3rd – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Saturday, May 4th – Denver, CO – Bluebird
Monday, May 6th – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
Tuesday, May 7th – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Wednesday, May 8th – Detroit, MI – Shelter
Friday, May 10th – Toronto, ON – Canadian Music Week
Monday, May 13th – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Tuesday, May 14th – New York, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thursday, May 16th – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry
Friday, May 17th – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
Saturday, May 18th – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
Monday, May 20th – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Tuesday, May 21st – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
Thursday, May 23rd – Houston, TX – Bronze Peacock
Friday, May 24th – Austin, TX – Parish
Saturday, May 25th – Dallas, TX – Dada
