Vacation New Translations

• 1 Post Hang 03:28
• 2 Rat People 03:57
• 3 Vacation 04:52
• 4 TV at Home 03:49
• 5 who i am tonight 03:48
• 6 Sally 03:45
• 7 Weatherman 05:05
• 8 Coldest Century 03:04
• 9 Sheriff 03:33
• 10 Love Bombb 05:00
• 11 Voided Velvet 03:46
• Total Runtime 44:07

Info for Vacation

Biting, genuine, thoughtful, playful, joyful, and sincere, Nashville’s New Translations embrace contradictions and exist to confound a band that captures the dizzy surreality of being alive in confusing times. After a series of singles and EPs like 2023's "The Business", New Translations singer Oliver Pierce, multi-instrumentalists Isaac Middleton and Andrés Ahogado, bassist and producer Ben Dunn, and drummer Philip Walker have settled into a new era that finds them doubling down on their complexities, while writing some of their most vulnerable songs to date.

The band's latest single "Coldest Century" has a thick bassline snaking through a head-nodding beat accented by loose riffing and verses that transfix with elusive lyrics. Taken from the forthcoming debut album "VACATION" releasing February 14 2025, it arrives on the heels of "Post Hang", “Voided Velvet (feat. Michigander),” and previous singles “Vacation,” “Sally,” and “Rat People.”

With their new music, the members of New Translations stand confident in their role as boundary pushers and leaders of a non-country music vanguard in Nashville. Their mission remains: “I want us to find the outsiders and create a community that celebrates the strange,” Pierce says.

New Translations

New Translations
A desperate, all-consuming yearning has been powering New Translations. The feeling has always been present in their music — a swooning mix of aqueous synth-pop and gauzy alt-rock that feels both intimate and infinite — but things have been changing for the band since they let out the escapist fantasia of their 2025 debut album Vacation. At home, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, FLOOD, and The Tennessean have all placed the Nashville quintet at the forefront of an insurgent non-country Music City scene. And on the road, they’ve been playing bigger stages than ever, including Bonnaroo and a tour with Rainbow Kitten Surprise. They even went full circle during CMA Fest, making headlines by playing a counterprogrammed JBJ’s rock takeover, which led Rolling Stone to call them “Scene-stealers…weird and invigorating.” But at the stakes have raised, the longing has deepened, and New Translations have been locked in with genre-blurring producer Yves Rothman (Blondshell, FKA Twigs, Girlpool), exploring sonic horizons that double down on their favored sounds (glassine synths, post-punk basslines, sternum-rattling tom rolls) while introducing bold new ones, like dazed dream-rock, towering sophistipop, and the stormy dynamics of shoegaze. Meanwhile, vocalist Oliver Pierce sings with the irrepressible emotions that come when the thing you want most is in sight, but not quite tangible — that “eternal reach,” as he puts it. “I hope to one day reach a point where I'm settled,” he adds. “But right now, I’m chewing the bark off the trees and howling at the moon.”

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