Nell Mescal returns with The Closest We’ll Get and UK/Ireland headline tour

Nell Mescal has announced her new EP The Closest We’ll Get, set for release on 24th October. The title track is out now, arriving alongside details of her biggest headline tour to date.

Recorded in Brooklyn with producer Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Billie Marten, Cass McCombs), the EP marks a step forward in sound. Its arrangements are raw and organic, pulling from Mescal’s folk influences while embracing Weinrobe’s unconventional production style. Last month’s ‘Carried Away’ hinted at this new direction, and ‘The Closest We’ll Get’ pushes it further.

Mescal says the record documents the grey zone between friendship and love: “The Closest We’ll Get is a collection of songs that tell a story about two people and how their relationship is in the grey area of friends or lovers. Each song is a realisation of how sitting in the in-between affected me and in turn affected the ‘friendship.’”

It caps off a busy year that’s seen her sell out US dates, play festivals like Latitude, All Points East and Electric Picnic, and support HAIM, Florence & The Machine, Dermot Kennedy and The Last Dinner Party. This weekend she appears at Reading & Leeds before returning in November for a 12-date UK and Ireland tour, culminating at Dublin’s Button Factory and Belfast’s Limelight 2 in early December.

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With early acclaim from outlets including NME, Vogue, i-D and The New York Times, Mescal continues to establish herself as one of the most distinctive new voices in folk-influenced indie pop.

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