Announcing — Nicole Hale's upcoming album "There Is A Place"

We are very pleased to announce the captivating and hypnotic upcoming album from Nicole Hale, titled There Is A Place, featuring Bonnie Prince Billy on backing vocals, due for release on 15th January 2027.

There Is A Place is Nicole Hale’s fifth album, following Nicole Hale (2009), Rough Recordings (2011), House With The Little Rose Garden (2015) — these are all hard-to-find gems — and the sublime classic Some Kind Of Longing (January 2025).

Key points

• Vocals and instruments (keys, accordion, guitar, lap steel, auto harp, viola, bass, percussion, baritone horn): Nicole Hale
• Guest backing vocals on 4 tracks: Bonnie Prince Billy
• The album is produced by Bill Baird and Nicole Hale
• Formats: Digital & Vinyl
• Label: Forgotten Key
• Vinyl release: Forgotten Key / Feeding Tube
• Nicole Hale is based in Austin, Texas
• Hale previously lived in NYC; she hosted an open mic at the now defunct R Bar, 218 Bowery
• Hale was born in Texas, grew up in New Mexico, and “lived all over before settling in Austin.”
• Her previous album Some Kind Of Longing is available to stream
• And via Bandcamp at https://nicolehale.bandcamp.com/album/some-kind-of-longing
• It's been called: “Beautiful, atmospheric and a modern day classic. Timeless.”
• And: “A beautifully smoky thing… Hale’s take is all her own.”
• Nicole Hale is the type of artist that doesn't spring up often — original, distinctive, rare, real and true
• There Is A Place is due for release on 15th January 2027

Feeding Tube's Byron Coley says:

“There Is A Place is an instant classic. Nicole Hale plays guitar and keyboards and sings in a lazily gorgeous stye that is intimate and personal. Her lyrics are experiential, sharing fully-lived stories and feelings rather than spinning mere yarns. A few people have told me they hear shades of Karen Dalton. And the backing vocals by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy balance perfectly with Nicole’s voice. At the musical fore is her acoustic guitar, played in a style that creates lines with a rhythmic simplicity recalling Michael Hurley or early Leonard Cohen. I'd say that ‘Hold Gaze’ has a metric structure reminiscent of Judee Sill, and ‘Horizon Ships’ has some of the same feel as Kendra Smith's solo work. But these are the sorts of straws a writer grasps at when faced with true originality. Nicole Hale's music is so direct and open a listener is compelled to imagine there must be an extant model for it — but that's a canard. Her songs are original, beautiful and searingly honest.” – Byron Coley

Bill Baird says:

“Nicole Hale is a nimble songwriting assassin, stacking up scenes and situations, all ready to be unveiled — songs that somehow suffuse themselves into your memory. Have I heard these songs before? In a past life maybe? It weaves a spell. How does it sound? How does it make you feel? Calm, elevated, emotional, both epic and small. Vast and also specific and tiny. Say hello to Nicole Hale, one of the greats.” – Bill Baird

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