Edinburgh’s Samuel Nicholson Announces New Album Exploring Neuro-Divergence & Love
“Odd deliciousness…makes us melancholy enthusiasts feel strangely elevated” - Podcart
“It won't be long until more people fall in love with Samuel Nicholson's works of art” - It’s All Indie
“Will leave a mark on your day with its exquisite nature” - CLOUT
Edinburgh’s Samuel Nicholson Announces New Album
Exploring Neuro-Divergence & Love
Birthday Suit Released 9th June 2023
Stream Lead Single ‘West Coast Feeling’ Released 8th March 2023
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Neuro-divergent Edinburgh songwriter, musician, and composer Samuel Nicholson is proud to announce that his new album Birthday Suit will be released on 9th June 2023.
Lead single ‘West Coast Feeling’ is set to be released on 8th March 2023, and was recorded live in the songwriter’s own flat by Caradog Jones.
Nicholson says of the track: “This song found me at 2am on the edge of my bed, fully formed, and throughout the making of this record it has worn many outfits—from a full Neil Young/Zuma-esque rock out to a sound-art collage worthy of the wildest. After many restless moments, however, I decided to release it as starkly as I found it.”
“With some minimal overdubs, this take stood out as the truest conductor of the same feeling I had when I wrote it. The ending features my own voice speaking over the track, recorded through a tape machine. Throughout the album, I’ve left small overdubs like this in places to help the listener navigate the record.”
With his love of music set alight by listening to Motown records in the car with his mother, corrupted by hard rock records handed down by his father, and finally formed by his own forays into jazz, folk and experimental Music of decades past, Nicholson is a cathartic songwriter, an impassioned singer, and a gifted guitarist.
A regular on the London music scene, Nicholson has enjoyed tours around the UK and Europe both under his own projects and others, including stints in live bands with Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something, Frankie Morrow and Jeremy Tuplin.
He has released two previous solo albums—his debut, If You Be My (2015), and follow-up Missing Persons Report (2020)— and have received early radio support from Amazing Radio and KCRW.
Nicholson’s forthcoming new album, Birthday Suit, comes after years of searching and longing. It serves as a dysfunctional self-portrait and a love letter in equal parts, dancing from electrifying guitar solos to naked vulnerability, as it brings the listener into the world of someone who has recently been diagnosed with autism.
“The record is a dysfunctional self-portrait of my life at a time when I was falling deeply in love,” says Nicholson of the album. “Having previously gathered that I am not easy to love, I began to write these songs as a way of warning this person about my nature, and a way of being realistic about my ability to love and support another human being at that time.”
Throughout the creation of the album and the beginning of his relationship, Nicholson began to experience severe and frequent panic attacks. In search for answers around the causes, and explanations for quirks to his nature, Nicholson discovered that he is autistic, and now has a medical diagnosis for the condition.
“The more I wrote, the more I found power in my mistakes, and the more I committed to making the record as honest as possible. I loved the idea of writing an album that rejected the odd ritual we adopt of disguising our flaws and malice when we’re trying to find a soulmate, and instead found power in honesty and candour.”
Samuel Nicholson will be announcing live dates and album details over the coming months.
