The Manchester-based expatriate New Zealander is known for her ruminative and well-crafted folk-inflected songwriting, and with Enter Now Brightness she presents a record of poise and great beauty, the sound of a cellular shift, of pain giving way to tenderness and joy. 

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On this record, Reid moves ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound that is distinctly her own. “I still feel uncomfortable about the word folk and being a folk singer.  It makes me sort of cringe,” she says. “It’s too confining.” She has grown weary, too, of all the inevitable likenings, to Mitchell and Dylan and more. 

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Since ‘Out of My Province” (2020), Reid toured the record as best she could and put on hold her plans to move to the UK. In July of 2021, she gave birth to her first daughter, Elliotte; her second, Goldie, arrived Spring 2024. Shortly before, Reid finally relocated to the UK, settling in Manchester. 

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“There’s a questing robustness to these songs, a sense of somebody finally having the perspective to seek out answers to long-hanging questions.” ★★★★ – MOJO

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Enter Now feels different. It is an album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be “the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger.” That through music we can find great change. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”

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