Nina Nastasia - What She Doesn't Know

25th February (Fatcat)

One of the best gigs I went to see last year was Nina Nastasia at Cardiff’s old church The Point. It was just Nina and a guitar, real hair-on-end, spine-tingling stuff. Nastasia just has that talent for completely taking you into her world, there are no blocks to her expression, it’s direct and just so moving I sometimes can’t believe it. ‘What She Doesn’t Know’ is a song left over from her last On Leaving LP, and it shimmers with the same kind of cut-glass poetic poignancy as so many of the tracks on there. There’s a low-key guitar sparkling beneath her like poetry from the gods, and when she sings “I couldn’t think of what to say” I just want to cry. Concise, vivid and so unadorned, Nastasia’s the singer-songwriter of my dreams. Watch out for a new album soon. NJ

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