New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Texas' genre bending rock 'n roller
Israel Nash, releases his fifth studio album, Lifted (Desert Forklore Music/Thirty Tigers). Lifted is available now on all digital service platforms and for physical purchase at www.israelnash.com. Nash and his band kick off their extensive album release tour tonight with a hometown show at the Historic Scoot Inn in Austin, TX, before heading out to 25+ cities across the country, including a stop at the at the inaugural Holler On the Hill Festival in Indianapolis, IN and the Americana
Music Festival in Nashville this September. All announced dates and tickets are available now at www.israelnash.com
Lifted is receiving early praise from critics and fans alike. Highlighted by NPR Music's All Songs Considered as an "Album You Should Hear Now," they describe, "these songs stretch out and really feel like a big view you can take in with your ears... the oral equivalent of an amazing view," while Wide Open Country encourages listeners to, "...get lost within Nash's world of multi-hued rock and vibrant sonic palette. Songs bleed into one another creating a vivid presentation. It ebbs and flows. You're fully immersed in Lifted." The
Boston Globe reviews, "...each track is its own unique sonic landscape, masterfully crafted."
Lifted, a modern day hippie-spiritual, finds Nash continuing his tradition of creating a sonic landscape that is at once both vast and intimate - soaring and untamed at times, placid and sincerely personal at others. Accompanied by his longtime band, with arrangements by
Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake), horns by members of Austin's cumbia/funk compadre's Grupo Fantasma, and strings from Kelsey Wilson and Sadie Wolf (Wild Child), Nash, alongside co-producer and engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, The Rolling Stones), presents an album that soars with meticulously crafted, multi-hued rock and psychedelia.
The album was recorded at
Israel Nash's studio, a Quonset hut structure called Plum Creek Sound at his home in Dripping Springs, Texas. During the process the studio became a sanctuary for Nash, a creative environment where he often reached a meditative state of escapism, creating a space where he could leave behind his downhearted feelings about the current political landscape and the bigger, existential questions those concerns raise.
Lifted,
Israel Nash's opus, is a fully realized, psychedelic, experimental, Americana rooted epic. By immersing oneself in Lifted, one can see Nash succeeds in a way that's exquisite yet spiritually satisfying. Nash welcomes you to join him on his uplifting path - one he's taken throughout his career, now continuing on a higher, imaginative plane.
Early Praise for Lifted
"...a dreamy sprawl to get lost in" - NPR
Music 'Album You Should Hear Now'
"The 'Hippie Spiritual' LP is a thing of wonder" - UNCUT, 9/10
"...a dreamy and imaginative odyssey" - Wide Open Country
"Lifted lives up to its title, a sprawling upward glance that billows and soars with each ringing refrain..." - Paste Magazine
"...each track is its own unique sonic landscape, masterfully crafted" - The
Boston Globe
"The
Texas singer-songwriter, who mixes folk, rock and psychedelia on his upcoming album Lifted, is proving a master of sonic textures." - Rolling Stone "10 Best Songs of the Week"
"Lifted soundtracks the scaling of mountains, both geographic and internal." ???? - The Austin Chronicle
"The ethereal ode to perseverance ["Rolling On"] neatly encapsulates the ambitious sonic direction and pronounced optimism of the LP as a whole, which marries the steel-guitar-drenched psychedelic country/folk vibe of his last two releases with layers of echoey '60s-pop classicism." -
Magnet Magazine
" ...a Hill Country spin on psychedelic rock." - KUTX
"...a lush, harmony-filled ode to perseverance." - KEXP "Song of the Day" "...everything you could want and more from a stereotype-breaking country band. - The Key, XPN
Israel Nash on Tour:
7/27/18 - Scoot Inn - Austin, TX+
7/31/18 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX
8/1/18 - South On Main -
Little Rock, AR
8/2/18 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO^
8/3/18 - Crossroads - Kansas City, MO*
8/4/18 - Raccoon Motel - Davenport, IA
8/5/18 - Palace Theater - Minneapolis, MN*
8/7/18 - Bluestem PAC - Moorhead, MN*
9/10/18 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
9/11/18 - Americana Fest - Nashville, TN
9/13/18 - Americana Fest - Nashville, TN
9/14/18 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
9/15/18 - Rumba Cafe - Columbus, OH
9/16/18 - Pike Room at the Crofoot - Detroit, MI
9/18/18 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
9/19/18 - The Back Room at Colectivo - Milwaukee, WI
9/20/18 - Turf Club - Minneapolis, MN
9/22/18 - Holler On the Hill - Indianpolis, IN
9/23/18 - Mountain Stage - Charleston, WV
9/25/18 - Rough Trade - Brooklyn, NY
9/26/18 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
9/27/18 - Jammin Java - Vienna, VA
9/28/18 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
9/30/18 -
Roots N Blues BBQ Festival - Columbia, MO
10/10/18 - Moroccan Lounge - Los Angeles, CA
10/11/18 -
Siren - San Louis Obispo, CA
10/12/18 - Café Du Nord - San Francisco, CA
10/14/18 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
10/16/18 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA
10/18/18 -
State Room - Salt Lake City, UT
10/19/18 - Magic Rat - Fort Collins, CO
10/20/18 -
Globe Hall - Denver, CO
+ with Feverbones & Curtis Roush
^ with Old 97's
*with
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
