Nicole Atkins Launches PledgeMusic Campaign In Support Of New Album

Vocalist Nicole Atkins has launched a PledgeMusic campaign on the eve of entering the studio to record what will be her fourth LP. Atkins last issued a full length album with the release of her Slow Phaser record in 2014.

Next week Atkins will commence recording of the new album at Niles City Sound in Fort Worth, Texas. The studio’s founders – Austin Jenkins, Josh Block (both formerly of White Denim) and Chris Vivion – were behind neo-soul singer Leon Bridges’ acclaimed 2015 debut album Coming Home, and will handle production for Atkins’ project as well.

One of the upcoming album’s new tracks, “A Little Crazy,” was co-written with Chris Isaak and will premiere during an appearance Atkins filmed for the season finale of Showtime’s Roadies airing on Sunday, August 28. That episode will feature guitarist Scott Metzger performing with Atkins as well as appearances by Eddie Vedder, Jim James, Gary Clark Jr., Jackson Browne, Lucius and Robyn Hitchcock. Here’s more from Nicole about the new project:

A lot of the songs on the new album deal with loneliness, newfound love, heartache, drinking too much, growing up, moving away and changing. All those challenges that I, like I’m sure a lot of you, have had to deal with at one time or another.

What I’m most excited about sharing with you during the recording process will be video snippets of me and the guys recording these nuggets, so you guys will get a real look into how this record is being made. Soup to nuts. Demos to finished mixes. Picking the title of the album down to the album art.

Pre-order the new album via this link with a number of options and reward tiers available. Every order comes with an instant download bundle of the 2004 Party’s Over Demos which are songs described by Atkins as “recorded with my good friend David Muller over the summer of 2004 in my parents living room, the Dietch gallery and a closet on Avenue C in the East Village. These recordings were the precursor to Neptune City. Making them changed my life. It was where I found my sound, my band, my voice and my life.”