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New single from Megan Nash teases 'transitional' album yet to come

Megan Nash has dropped a new single from her upcoming album, set to release sometime in the new year
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Megan Nash and The Best of Intentions. (Yellow Bird Photography)

Prairie songwriter Megan Nash has jumped back onto the charts with the release of her newest single “Artifact” last week, making waves in the indie charts on various streaming services.

“Artifact” released on Oct. 21, offering the first taste of new music Nash has shared since her award-winning single Seeker released in 2017 — not that she hasn’t been busy since. 

“I did a few singles, between the last album, but it feels like a really long time,” said Nash. “For the most part, the last few years, I was just playing live and writing songs here and there, but just doing so much on the road that it took a bit to get the material together.”

And a few singles she did, including a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s famous song “Sweet Little Lies,” a collaboration with Regina band Bears in Hazenmore titled “Snowbank,” and her incredibly popular single “Deer Head.”

She also spent plenty of time touring Saskatchewan, Canada and even overseas, appearing at festivals and offering her mentorship to budding songwriters in several programs in Saskatchewan.

Nash even stepped back on the stage for a few pandemic-safe concerts this year, including a drive-in appearance in Regina this August and a show at TCU Place in Saskatoon featuring her backup outfit The Best of Intentions and an empty audience, recorded for SaskTel Max Local on Demand.

“Artifact” is the first single from Nash’s promised upcoming album, which she described earlier in the year as both a breakup album and a transitional record for her as a songwriter. This particular track was one Nash had recorded and almost completed before COVID-19 interrupted her work in the studio this spring.

Nash describes “Artifact” as a song about “being so close to something that you can’t really tell it's falling apart, about finding a fragment of your former life, about being so fully immersed in your relationship that you don’t really have a clear perspective on it anymore.” 

It's definitely a breakup song, continued Nash, but it also draws on the experience of living during a climate crisis and makes the comparison between personal relationships and relationships with the planet.

The track has been well received so far, said Nash. It has been featured on the Made in Canada: Indie & Alternative playlist on Amazon Music, Apple Music’s Alternative Music playlist, and several others on Spotify and YouTube.

“In this day and age, every time you release something, you hope it gets put on a playlist,” said Nash. “So I’m really happy with how it’s been received so far.”

There will be more singles released in the future, hinted Nash, but she couldn’t pin down a release date for the new album just yet — although the target is sometime in the New Year and she’s hard at work in the studio finetuning the album.

“I love listening to an entire album. I love albums, but we do live in a ‘single’ world,” said Nash. “Singles do take the focus, which is almost taking the pressure off of me a little bit because we can keep doing these single releases and then I have time to kind of finesse the record.”

Nash also revealed that a lyric video for “Artifact” is set to come out on Nov. 12, sharing the info with her hometown Moose Jaw fans first, and that she also has a few more projects on the go to keep an eye out for in the near future. 

“Artifact” is now available to stream on all services, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more.

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