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Self-discovery doesn't come easy. It's usually a rite of passage to get burned before the wounds can heal and often takes a new perspective to truly understand yourself. 18 months and 10,000kms travelled since many needles first dropped on her debut LP Listen To Formation Look For The Signs, it's safe to say with her second album Preservation, Nadia Reid now knows herself extremely well.

"Preservation' is about the point I started to love myself again. It is about strength, observation and sobriety," Nadia says. "It's about when I could see the future again. When the world was good again. When music was realised as my longest standing comfort."

An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Preservation is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than before. Nadia's beautifully warm vocals coolly wrap around feelings of turbulence, and exude a gently improved confidence. "This record is about being OK with who I am in the world, and who I want to be. Learning to live with the fact I'm a person who operates differently to others," admits Nadia. "I'm richer for the fact I am a musician. Without this way of being, I couldn't write songs."

Returning to the production skills of Ben Edwards in his Sitting Room studios in Christchurch and long term guitarist Sam Taylor, this time around everything is rubbed in more grit and channels Nadia's deftly profound take on life and whilst we already knew it, her own realisation that it is music which drives her. "I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to myself. That's what these songs are; a confession to my future and past self."

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