Nina Gala drops debut album

Hailing from the city of Baltimore, Nina Gala is an artist that creates stunning and intimate music that sits at the crossroads between bedroom pop and folk rock. With her sweetly soft vocals, she spins beautiful songs that delicately cover the emotions, experiences and dramas of life.

In 2016 she started performing her music and quickly became a staple of the local music scene, forging a connection between artist and audience, her shows would hush rooms as she delivered her warm and relatable writing on stage. Going on to independently release two EPs with gala in 2017 and renaissance in 2020, in the summer of that year she found herself at a turning point in her life.

When her six year long relationship came to an end, she found herself living alone for the first time during a pandemic. The gravity of her new situation lost no impact on her as an artist, with Nina setting out to write new material that drew on the profound changes in her life. With little more than a mattress on the floor and an amplifier plugged into the wall, she penned the songs that would form her debut album swan heart.

Linking up with Baltimore-based producer Erik Schwarzenberg, who’s previously worked with the likes of Revolver and Little Lungs, Nina Gala created her brand new eight-track record. Building on her minimal style, she filled out her sound with string arrangements provided by Jon Birkholz, adding more harmonic texture to perfectly compliment her melodic vocal leads.

In her typical style, the artist lays down ethereal soundscapes and emotive writing, sharing her vulnerabilities via elegant vocal delivery and tender instrumentation. At times haunting and dreamlike, and others anthemic, across swan heart, Nina Gala offers a graceful collection of songs that serve to showcase her songwriting talent and vocal prowess on a worthy debut album.

Commenting on the album, she shares, “Creating swan heart was the most sophisticated creative project I’ve ever taken on. It took two years from the time I wrote the first lines until I received the final masters. I collaborated with artists I admire in ways I never thought possible and grew so much as an artist myself. I always envisioned that one day I would create something that felt as special and as rich as swan heart, I just never imagined that it could happen so soon.”

Listen to swan heart below