Nicholas Allbrook Announces New Album & Shares First Single

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Beloved singer and multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Allbrook has announced his new solo album Manganese, out June 9th via Spinning Top Records. With this news comes the release of Allbrook’s newest single “Jackie,” a song that grapples with loss and hope for peace in the afterlife. Produced by Allbrook and HOKO (Nathaniel Hoho) and mixed by Jay Watson (GUM/Pond/Tame Impala), Allbrook’s fourth solo album away from Pond life is a psyche-pop wonderland.

“This song is about my friend (whose name isn’t Jackie) who died in 2021.’ Nick shares. ‘She was fantastic and the news left me with familiar feelings of guilt and regret and “why didn’t I do more or know better”. I don’t usually get hit with creative bolts while running, but by the canal once in London I was struck with the hopeful image of her rowing away from the earth that had been so hurtful and hard, on a black lake surrounded by stars, finally finding peace and silence. It felt nice to think about death like that, bathed in pale silver light rather than just cold. I got lots of instrumental help from Nathaniel Hoho, who bizarrely and brilliantly put in the nature documentary voice about the giant panda which should never work but somehow does.”

Watch & listen to “Jackie” below.

Manganese

1. Commodore

2. Babbel

3. Manganese

4. Jackie

5. The Endless Jetty

6. Vale the Chord

7. Mazda

8. Round Round the Moon and All

9. The Night Before You Flew