NÍV has released her new single ‘Home’. NÍV is the alias for Niamh Murray, a Kildare singer songwriter from Maynooth. Since launching her solo career as NÍV, a little over a year ago, she has already gained many achievements. In March 2020, Nív sold out her first Single Launch in The Workman’s Club for her single “Silly Voices”. Nív was added to RTE Radio 1’s Recommends List. She was also shortlisted for Four Star Pizza’s Star Nation Competition as a Leinster Provincial Winner. On Spotify alone, in one year, NÍV has gained 15k new listeners across 73 countries.

Within ‘Home’, NÍV creates an ethereal soundscape that caresses the ears in emotive songwriting and elegant musicianship. This sweet and tender track flows with earthy tones and cosy folk as supple guitar twinkles through crisp piano and ambient soundscapes to create a soothing and beautiful tune. The space within this track instantly calms the mind, while layered vocal harmonies provide a timeless mystical quality. NÍV uses her poetic lyrics and a dreamy melody to create a hue of nostalgia and vivid imagery as she coos, “There’s a place beyond our fears, Only laughter no more tears, Where our bruises disappear, As our mother holds us near”. ‘Home’ is a time-stopping and stunning song displaying the raw talent and superb songwriting of NÍV.

Talking about the single, NÍV says “This song has ended up meaning quite a lot to me. It was written during the very first lockdown and so you could say it’s a gateway into my mind and what it was feeling at that time. As a result of the pandemic, I think that people haven’t been able to make it back home to see family and friends. I think as well everyone is missing what life was like before all of this began. Those kinds of feelings are where this song came from. It’s an echo of the warm nostalgic feeling that goes hand in hand with memories of home.”

Stream ‘Home’ below 

Author : Danu