The Brazilian-British singer-songwriter and former Goat Girl member Naima Bock, an alumna of our 2022 best new artists list, impressed the hell out of us with her debut album Giant Palm, its 2024 follow-up Below A Massive Dark Land, and last year's one-off single "Rolling." Today, she's back to announce her signing to Fire Talk/Breakfast Records with a 2027 EU/UK tour and some new music.
While her past records packed in a wealth of compositional ideas and contributors — the bossa-nova infused folk sound of Giant Palm was created in collaboration with arranger Joel Burton and upwards of 30 instrumentalists — Bock has been leaning into a more stripped-back, intimate approach to songwriting lately. You can hear that in her new single "Rocks," with accents of melodica, mouth trumpet, and background vocals that never overwhelm the lovely fingerpicked simplicity.
"'Rocks' is a very personal song, the story of which I'll leave to the listener to interpret," Bock says. "It came to me on a rainy autumn night as my flight was ascending to somewhere less cold. I'd been listening to Palace Music non-stop for a month. Writing it saved me from my chronic oscillation between to-be home and not-to-be home, that is when I decided I would do both." Listen below.
TOUR DATES:
04/06 Leeds, England @ Brudenell Social Club
04/07 Liverpool, England @ St. Brides Church
04/09 Manchester, England @ Halle St Peter’s
04/10 Newcastle, England @ The Common Room
04/11 Glasgow, Scotland @ Cottiers Theatre
04/13 Oxford, England @ Holywell Music Room
04/14 Cardiff, Wales @ St. John’s Church
04/16 Southampton, England @ Papillon
04/17 Brighton, England @ St. Luke’s
04/18 Frome, England @ Cheese & Grain (Tree House)
04/20 Exeter, England @ Phoenix
04/21 Bristol, England @ Lantern
04/22 London, England @ Earth Theatre
05/10 Munich, Germany @ Kulturzentrum Trafo
05/12 Hamburg, Germany @ Aalhaus
05/13 Berlin, Germany @ Schokoladen
05/15 Stuttgart, Germany @ Merlin
05/17 Milan, Italy @ Arci Bellezza
05/20 Paris, France @ Le Chinois
05/21 Brussels, Belgium @ TBA
05/22 Diksmuide, Belgium @ 4AD
05/23 Cologne, Germany @ EDP
05/25 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Ideal Bar
05/21 Oslo, Norway @ Himmel
05/31 Aarhus, Denmark @ Phono
