Riderless Horse (album)

Riderless Horse is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It will be released by Temporary Residence Limited digitally and on CD on July 22, 2022, with the vinyl version following on November 4. Her first new release since her 2010 album Outlaster, and the death of her long-time manager Kennan Gudjonsson in 2020, the album was recorded and produced by Nastasia, Steve Albini and Greg Norman at a house in upstate New York. The record was inspired by Gudjonsson's suicide, and also the dysfunctional nature of their relationship, which Nastasia said contained "abuse, control and manipulation".[1] "Just Stay in Bed" was released as the first single from the album on April 4, 2022, with Nastasia beginning a tour supporting Scottish rock band Mogwai a day later.

Riderless Horse
Studio album by
Nina Nastasia
ReleasedJuly 22, 2022
LabelTemporary Residence Limited
Producer
Nina Nastasia chronology
Outlaster
(2010)		 Riderless Horse
(2022)
Singles from Riderless Horse
  1. "Just Stay in Bed"
    Released: April 4, 2022

Background

Nastasia released her sixth studio album Outlaster in 2010,[2] which was supported by a worldwide acoustic tour of club venues.[3][4] Following the tour, Nastasia took an extended break from recording.[5] She performed sporadically over the next several years, performing a one-off concert with Pixies bassist Kim Deal in New York on October 6, 2011,[6] three solo concerts in the United Kingdom and Ireland in March and April 2012,[7][8] a concert in Belfast as part of a tribute to late BBC DJ John Peel in September 2013,[9] a one-off performance at The Watermill Center in New York on August 18, 2016,[10][11] and at Electrical Audio's 20th anniversary party in Chicago on September 24, 2017.[12][13] She performed lead vocals on "The Poisoner", a track on Daniel Knox's 2018 album Chasescene,[14] and independently released the non-album single "Handmade Card" that same year.[15]

Recording and composition

The album was produced by Nastasia alongside Steve Albini and Greg Norman, at a house in upstate New York.[16] She described Riderless Horse as her first solo album, in that it is her first record not to be produced by long-time manager and partner Kennan Gudjonsson, who died by suicide in January 2020.[1] Nastasia explained that she stopped recording music after the release of Outlaster as a result of "unhappiness, overwhelming chaos, mental illness, and my tragically dysfunctional relationship with Kennan", saying that their 25-year relationship contained "abuse, control and manipulation."[1][16][17]

Nastasia said she had always viewed creating music as a "positive outlet during difficult times", but said her relationship with Gudjonsson had deteriorated after the release of Outlaster to the point that recording new music "became a source of absolute misery." She ended her relationship with Gudjonsson on January 26, 2020; he committed suicide the following day. Nastasia said she "can only feel sadness and guilt" about his suicide, but "maybe I'll have other reactions to it later on."[16] The album "documents the grief [about Gudjonsson's death], but it also marks moments of empowerment and a real happiness in discovering my own capability." She credited Albini and Norman for creating "exactly the right environment to work on this record. We all had meals together, cried, laughed, and told stories. It was perfect. It made me realize how much I love writing, playing and recording music."[1]

Release and promotion

Nastasia signed a record deal with Temporary Residence Limited, which digitally reissued her three Fat Cat Records albums – 2006's On Leaving, 2007's collaborative album with Jim White, You Follow Me, and Outlaster – in February 2022.[18] She also announced she would be appearing as the opening act for a North American theater tour by Scottish rock act Mogwai, which began in April.[19] "Just Stay in Bed" was released as the first single from Riderless Horse on April 4.[20] The album will be released for digital download and on CD on July 22, 2022, with a vinyl release following on November 4.[21] Two different editions of the vinyl will be released: a standard black 180-gram vinyl, and a limited edition clear vinyl with black ink splatter; the latter is limited to 1,500 copies worldwide.[22] The album's cover art was created by Elizabeth Neel.[23]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Nina Nastasia.

No.TitleLength
1."Cork and Pour" 
2."Just Stay in Bed"2:12
3."You Were So Mad" 
4."This Is Love" 
5."Nature" 
6."Lazy Road" 
7."Ask Me" 
8."Blind as Batsies" 
9."The Two of Us" 
10."Go Away" 
11."The Roundabout" 
12."Trust" 
13."Afterwards" 
14."Creek and Chimes" 

Release history
Region Date Format Label Catalog # Ref.
Worldwide July 22, 2022 CD · DL · Streaming Temporary Residence Limited TRR398CD [22]
November 4, 2022 LP TRR398LP (standard) · TRR398LPC1 (limited)

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