Nick Waterhouse announces new self titled album

Los Angeles-based musician Nick Waterhouse has announced his new self-titled album set for March 8th release via Innovative Leisure. Following 2016’s 'Never Twice' which was hailed by Vogue as "the second coming of soul" and earned Nick a performance on "Later" with Jools Holland, the new album was recorded at LA’s legendary Electro-Vox Recorders, and co-produced with Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St. Paul and the Broken Bones), with backing from a heavy bevy of friends and session players including Bart Davenport, percussionist Andres Renteria (Flying Lotus, Father John Misty), flutist Ricky Washington (Kamasi’s dad), and saxophonists Paula Henderson (Gogol Bordello) and Mando Dorame (JD McPherson).

The scorched earth first single “Song For Winners” is out today via Consequence of Sound. Drawing inspiration from British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Nina Simone, the knockout track combines a feral R&B howl with elegant touches of club jazz with 60's soul. Mary Anne Hobbs also premiered the song on her new morning show on 6Music as her Near Future feature, saying she’s “always loved the way he creates this atmosphere of swirling noir.”

The 11-song collection features ten new Waterhouse originals, plus a deep cover of “I Feel An Urge Coming On,” originally written by Nick’s friend and mentor Joshie Jo Armstead, who has previously written with Ray Charles and performed as both a Raelette and an Ikette in the 1960s and 70s.

There’s a reason why Nick chose to name this, his fourth album, his self-titled release. While he has always had a “style is all his own” according to NPR, this album is a deeper reflection of the cultural and emotional firmament that has made Nick the artist he is today: his passions and influences; his love and outrage. The music of Irma Thomas and Chico Hamilton; the films of Robert Siodmak and Adam Curtis. The good old bad days in San Francisco, Detroit, and Los Angeles. It’s an intoxicating world, and this album invites you to get lost in it.

Since releasing his debut single in 2010, Nick Waterhouse has toured the world (most recently on an extensive run with Allen Stone), and collaborated with or produced everyone from upstarts like Ty Segall, Leon Bridges and Jon Batiste, to septuagenarian soul legend Ural Thomas, and Latin stars the Boogaloo Assassins.

Nick will head out on a 30 date Spring Europe and US headlining tour in support of his upcoming album. See below for a full list of dates.

Tracklisting:

1. By Heart

2. Song For Winners

3. I Feel an Urge Coming On

4. Undedicated

5. Black Glass

6. Wreck the Rod

7. Which Was Writ

8. Man Leaves Town

9. Thought & Act

10. El Viv

11. Wherever She Goes (She Is Wanted)

NICK WATERHOUSE 2019 TOUR DATES:

• Monday, March 18th - Manchester, UK - Gorilla
• Thursday, March 21st -London, UK - 229 The Venue
• Saturday, March 23rd - Brussels, BE - Botanique-Orangerie
• Sunday, March 24th - Paris, FR - Petit Bain
• Tuesday, March 26th - Hamburg, DE - Mojo Club
• Wednesday, March 27th - Berlin, DE - Columbia Theatre
• Thursday, March 28th - Amsterdam, NL - Het Zonnehuis
• Saturday, March 30th - Athens, GR - Fuzz Live Music Club
• Sunday, March 31st - Thessaloniki, GR - Fix Factory of Sound
• Thursday, April 25th - Santa Ana, CA -Marty’s on Newport
• Friday, April 26th - Los Angeles, CA- Regent
• Saturday, April 27th - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
• Monday, April 29th - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
• Tuesday, April 30th - Seattle, WA - Crocodile
• Wednesday, May 1st - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
• Friday, May 3rd - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
• Saturday, May 4th - Denver, CO - Bluebird
• Monday, May 6th - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
• Tuesday, May 7th - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
• Wednesday, May 8th - Detroit, MI - Shelter
• Friday, May 10th - Toronto, ON - Canadian Music Week @ Horseshoe Tavern
• Saturday, May 11th - Montreal, QC - TBD
• Monday, May 13th - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
• Tuesday, May 14th - New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Thursday, May 16th - Philadelphia, PA - Foundry
• Friday, May 17th - Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
• Saturday, May 18th - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern
• Monday, May 20th - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
• Tuesday, May 21st - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
• Thursday, May 23rd - Houston, TX - Bronze Peacock
• Friday, May 24th - Austin, TX - Parish
• Saturday, May 25th - Dallas, TX – Dada