Enter Now Brightness

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Enter Now Brightness
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Studio album by
Released7 February 2025 (2025-02-07)
Length40:21
Label Chrysalis Records
Nadia Reid chronology
Out of My Province
(2020)
Enter Now Brightness
(2025)

Enter Now Brightness is the fourth studio album by New Zealand musician Nadia Reid. It was released on 7 February 2025, by Chrysalis Records, and Reid's own label Slow Time Records. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Under the Radar 7.5/10 [6]

Enter Now Brightness was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 74, based on 7 reviews. [2]

At Under the Radar , writer Mark Moody gave the album a seven and a half out of ten, noting "Reid’s honeyed vocals are a generational gift." [6] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic said "Enter Now Brightness is not only a title but a philosophy on an elegant set of songs that find Reid adapting just fine, thanks, at least with the help of treasured loved ones and music itself." [3]

Track listing

Enter Now Brightness track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Emmanuelle"3:33
2."Cry on Cue"3:37
3."Baby Bright"3:52
4."Hold It Up"4:07
5."Changed Unchained"3:44
6."Second Nature"3:33
7."Even Now"4:14
8."Hotel Santa Cruz"3:26
9."Woman Apart"5:07
10."Send It Down the Line"5:08

Charts

Chart performance for Enter Now Brightness
Chart (2025)Peak
position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [7] 17

References

  1. Pepperell, Martyn (28 February 2025). "Nadia Reid Discusses New Album". Rolling Stone Australia . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 Donelson, Marcy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  4. Segal, Victoria (7 February 2025). "Nadia Reid - Enter Now Brightness - Album Review". Mojo . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  5. Johnson, Steven (7 February 2025). "Nadia Reid - Enter Now Brightness - Album Review". MusicOMH . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 Moody, Mark (10 February 2025). "Under the Radar Review". Under the Radar . Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  7. "Charts.nz – Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 July 2025.