Following last year's critically acclaimed "Aching Bones" EP, Nadine Shah has found a new home with R&S imprint Apollo, who will be releasing her brand new "Dreary Town" EP. Hailing from the north east town of Whitburn this young artist's compositions lean towards the dramatic, with her smoky husky-hued vocals imbued with an understated unease & a stage presence that belies her youthful age. Lead track 'Dreary Town' with plummeting melodies & anguished vocals, is the most personal of all 3 & the track that convinced producer Ben Hillier (The Horrors, Blur, Depeche Mode) to work with her. Followed by 'Bobby Heron' with creeping guitar strums driving a story about her great grandmothers only boy. "He died at sea" Nadine reveals, “my great gran was obviously distraught but even more so because she couldn't bury her little boy. There was this clairvoyant in our hometown. She went to see him & he revealed where the body was. That night my great grandad went out in his fishing boat. The body was where they'd been told it would be & he retrieved Bobby's body. My mam always tells that story. I wrote the song for my mum, I wanted to ensure that her tale lived on.” The new EP is topped off with the singer's wonderfully sinister take on 'Cry Me A River.' Having begun singing it when she was a much younger jazz singer, Nadine just loved how you could really twist the lyrics.