Biography
London-based singer/songwriter Nadine Khouri drew early praise for her understated delivery and layered soundscapes when her John Parish-produced second album, The Salted Air, appeared in 2017. The follow-up, Another Life, took five years to complete and arrived in 2022, surveying a stretch of personal and collective turmoil that touched on questions of ancestry, private hardship, and wider social fracture.
Khouri’s first nine years unfolded in Lebanon before she settled in London and launched her recording career. Drawn to shoegaze textures and the shadowed restraint of acts such as Mazzy Star and Low, she self-released her debut album, Cuts from the Inside, in 2005. She soon relocated to the United States, working as an acoustic performer in New York and issuing the EP A Song to the City in 2010. Her songs blended folk and atmospheric indie rock while echoing figures from Leonard Cohen to dream-pop acts. Back in London she met producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) and began shaping songs that would form her next full-length. Cut in Bristol and issued to strong notices in 2017, The Salted Air brought wider attention to her smoldering, nocturnal approach and marked her first substantial breakthrough. The lean three-track EP A New Dawn followed in 2018, yet another studio album would not surface for four more years.
Once more collaborating with Parish across Bristol and London, the 2022 release Another Life combined spareness with intensity, its lyrics tracing loss, transition, displacement, and Khouri’s Lebanese roots.
Khouri’s first nine years unfolded in Lebanon before she settled in London and launched her recording career. Drawn to shoegaze textures and the shadowed restraint of acts such as Mazzy Star and Low, she self-released her debut album, Cuts from the Inside, in 2005. She soon relocated to the United States, working as an acoustic performer in New York and issuing the EP A Song to the City in 2010. Her songs blended folk and atmospheric indie rock while echoing figures from Leonard Cohen to dream-pop acts. Back in London she met producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) and began shaping songs that would form her next full-length. Cut in Bristol and issued to strong notices in 2017, The Salted Air brought wider attention to her smoldering, nocturnal approach and marked her first substantial breakthrough. The lean three-track EP A New Dawn followed in 2018, yet another studio album would not surface for four more years.
Once more collaborating with Parish across Bristol and London, the 2022 release Another Life combined spareness with intensity, its lyrics tracing loss, transition, displacement, and Khouri’s Lebanese roots.
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