Nick Waterhouse paints his new songs 'Promenade Blue' on next album in April

Nick Waterhouse has a new album, Promenade Blue, due out April 9 on Innovative Leisure.

Opening track “Place Names” brings teenaged memories to the forefront, pondering the pride he takes in his hometown and the distinct life that he has made (or that has made him). The sweeping arrangement is punctuated with girl group backing vocals.

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"'Place Names' is the song I have been writing my entire life,” says Waterhouse. “I wanted to figure out a way to astrally project the listener into all the places and pathways - metropolitan or naturalistic - I could. Look up at the light of a big sky against a hillside city dotted with lights, the sea rising before you, the street unfolding as you climb up from the subway stairs, all in some dreamy place filled with promise and wisdom it can deliver to you. Then remember everyone who ever brought beauty into your own life."

In Nick’s musical and lyrical world, blue is a refraction of his life and memories — shadowing a deep, spiritual San Francisco that fostered his musical vocabulary but has now been stamped out irrevocably; evoking the endless tours, marathon recording sessions, and highs and lows of success he’s experienced in his decade-long career; conjuring romances that were doomed, loves that lingered, and hope for future days of parity and partnership; summoning spirits of people who have gone but permeate his mind forever.

The world of Promenade Blue represents rebirth and reinvigoration as well as a clarity of purpose. It is vivid and magnetic, buoyed by both light and density due to Nick’s newfound collaboration with producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, Devendra Banhart).

Track list:

1. Place Names
2. The Spanish Look
3. Vincentine
4. Medicine
5. Very Blue
6. Silver Bracelet
7. Proméne Bleu
8. Fugitive Lover
9. Minor Time
10. Santa Ana, 1986
11. To Tell
12. B-Sides (01) Pushin’ Too Hard
13. B-Sides (02) Spanish Is The Loving Tongue