Nadia Kadek Announces Debut EP + Shares New Single 'Always Almost Losing You'

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NADIA KADEK ANNOUNCES DEBUT EP GREEN CAR

OUT 17TH OCTOBER ON TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS

LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘ALWAYS ALMOST LOSING YOU’

FORTHCOMING LIVE DATES, INCLUDING PITCHFORK FESTIVAL LONDON + NEW LONDON HEADLINE SHOW

British-Indonesian artist Nadia Kadek today announces her debut project, the forthcoming EP Green Car, out 17th October via Transgressive Records. To mark the news, the 22-year-old rising talent has unveiled a brand new single, ‘Always Almost Losing You’. With crystalline vocals and deft melodic phrasing, Kadek layers indie-folk textures over restrained production, crafting a song that draws listeners deeper with its escalating emotional weight.

On the single, Nadia explains “Writing this song felt really emotionally charged, a mix of frustration and anger that was really just masking the sadness I felt for a friend. It’s about how loving someone so much can make you worry about them so much too. The production explores the darker side of my sonic palette which allowed me to lean into those more complex and frustrated feelings.”

Recorded between the Oxfordshire countryside (Hook Studios) and Studio 13 with producers Riccardo Damian (Sampha, Jorja Smith, Yebba) and Jamie Biles (Isaac Gracie, Hohnen Ford, Asha Banks), Green Car spans five tracks - including the singles ‘Feeling It All’ and ‘Lemonade’ - and reflects Kadek’s pursuit of an “organic live sound” enriched by “atmospheric, beautiful noises.” The result is a sonic world that twirls and leaps around her honeyed vocals, as if the performance is unfolding right in front of you every time you press play. Sitting in the bittersweet glow of late summer, the collection navigates nostalgia, bruised family dynamics, fleeting romances, and the quiet resilience of forgiveness.

“I needed it to feel like it was breathing life, and that there’s somebody in the room with you when you’re listening,” she explains. “I wanted to keep the intimacy of acoustic demos whilst bringing them to life through this combination of live sound with slightly weirder, wonkier atmospherics.”

It speaks to her refreshing nonconformity amid an era where artists are increasingly under pressure to aspire to social media virality. Over the past few years, Nadia has eschewed the new norm, instead gradually building a doting audience through playing live shows. While winning over the crowds with her silky, confessional ballads, she says the songs have, in turn, become almost a conversation with listeners. Her captivating live presence soon drew the attention of Transgressive Records, the renowned label known for championing some of today’s most respected and boundary-pushing artists.

Raised in the quiet countryside of Norfolk, Nadia describes herself as a “festival baby,” with early musical memories formed on long car journeys to campsites, soundtracked by the likes of Florence + The Machine and Jeff Buckley. From watching her heroes on the shoulders of fellow festival-goers, to playing Glastonbury 2024 after placing runner up in their Emerging Talent Competition, her story is already one of full-circle moments and quietly extraordinary determination.

Her live credentials already include Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park, Latitude, two appearances at The Great Escape, and support slots with Paris Paloma, Etta Marcus, and Cordelia. Looking ahead, she is set to perform at a special show at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in support of Johnny & Lillie Flynn, before a run of dates with The Crane Wives plus Mutations, Pitchfork Festival, Eurosonic and more. Forthcoming date listings are as follows:

24th September - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (supporting Johnny & Lillie Flynn)

25th September - Birmingham Town Hall (supporting The Crane Wives)

26th September - O2 Ritz Manchester (supporting The Crane Wives)

27th September - O2 Academy Glasgow (supporting The Crane Wives)

29th September - SWX Bristol (supporting The Crane Wives)

30th September - Islington Assembly Hall London (supporting The Crane Wives)

14th - 18th October - Wild Paths Festival, Norwich

4th November - The Forge at The Lower Third, London

7th November - Mutations Festival, Brighton

8th November - Pitchfork Festival, London

14th - 17th January - ESNS, Groningen, NL

Recalling the shrewd sensitivity of Adrianne Lenker and Lizzy McAlpine, with Green Car Kadek weaves her poetic observations over wispy acoustic guitar. Though it’s only her first EP, it sees Nadia rightfully insert herself into a canon of songwriters with the ability to capture the feelings the rest of us can’t quite put to words.