ISRAEL NASH
2017
UK & IRELAND TOUR WITH BAND OF HORSES
Newcastle O2 Academy
Friday 17th February 2017
“Nash settles into a languid, hallucinatory
groove that recalls mid-1970s Neil Young and the more recent mystic wanderings
of My Morning Jacket …Cosmic Americana of the very highest order" ★★★★½
- CLASSIC ROCK
“Dense, dusty psychedelic Americana that makes the similarly inclined Tame Impala sound a little
lightweight”
- ★★★★ Q
“cosmic poetry, crunching guitars and
swooning pedal steel” - ★★★★ - MOJO
Cosmos-wrangling
Americana upstart Israel Nash
returns from Texas Hill Country for a UK tour with Band of Horses
in 2017.
Kicking
off at Vicar Street in Dublin on 15th February, Nash will provide support at a
total of 7 dates, subsequently calling at Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds,
Birmingham, Bristol and London (full dates below).
Nash
is currently touring with Silver Season, a deeply gorgeous and wholly immersive
nine-song set that plays less like an album, and more like a cross section of
time and space. The man's fourth LP ventures farther down the acid-soaked trail
blazed by 2013's Rain Plans, arriving in lush and expansive territory. Here,
this Missouri son sounds more assured
than ever, supported by his highly capable band and production inspired by psychedelic
greats. Israel Nash's Silver Season is best played loudly, and sounds wonderful
in headphones.
Like
the record before it, this one was made on Nash's 15-acre swath of land in Dripping Springs, Texas, with one key
difference. While Rain Plans was recorded inside of the new home he shared with
his then-pregnant wife, Silver Season was born in the studio Nash built outside
and named Plum Creek Sound, a 1,400 square- foot Quonset erected in March. The
band was ready to begin in late May when the floods came, filling the building
with water and muck. Nash and the boys pushed on anyhow. Digging trenches,
hauling sandbags, clearing mud, and plugging in—that's how they made an album,
doing what needed to be done.
The
end result isn't so terrestrial, however. Silver Season billows outward with
its opening song, "Willow." A swirl of keys,
bass, pedal steel, acoustic strum, and languid drums envelop the listener as
Nash's cooed poetry recontextualizes the world through his daughter's eyes. A
shimmery Morricone-like passage carries us into "Parlour Song," which
sounds a little like Neil Young leading Tame Impala. "Sooner or later
we'll surrender our guns/But not until we've shot everyone," Nash sings.
And while the line would fit into a celebratory tale about Old West outlaws,
it's actually a modern lament.
From
the warm drift and easy elasticity of "Strangers" (one of two cuts
that verge on seven minutes) to the holler-along gospel of "The Rag &
Bone Man," Silver Season feels like a living thing. That's a product of
the wild five-man sessions that took place in the sweltering Quonset (with beer
breaks, and slingshot target practice using the empties). It's also due to the
care put into taming all of that good noise, with engineer Ted Young (Kurt
Vile, Sonic Youth) returning to the mix. The analog hum grounds the guitar
wizardry, while the depth of sound ties the band to the pasture that surrounds.
It
makes sense that Nash would come into his own out there. He was raised in the
Ozarks amidst hills and farmland. Other things add up too. His pastor father
and artist mother were very much children of the '60s. Dad bought him Sgt.
Pepper's when he was 10, Mom handed him an electric guitar at 11, and Nash was
writing songs by 12. And while he's grown away from the religion he was raised
under, Nash's music is nothing if not spiritual. The spirit just comes from a
different place—nature, family, song, and the occasional trip into times and
spaces we can't normally access. Hidden within the folds of Silver Season, Nash's
weather-beaten voice says it best: "I don't live like the others/I see
twice as many colours."
2017 TOUR DATES
15
Feb - DUBLIN, Vicar Street (IE)*
16
Feb - GLASGOW, O2 Academy (UK)*
17 Feb - NEWCASTLE, O2 Academy (UK)*
19
Feb - LEEDS, O2 Academy (UK)*
20
Feb - BIRMINGHAM, O2 Institute (UK)*
21
Feb - BRISTOL, O2 Academy (UK)*
23
Feb - LONDON, Troxy (UK)*
*
with Band Of Horses
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