NoMBe opens up concerning the rebirth, liberation, and artistic breakthrough of “Nu Lova,” a seductive, groovy anthem that marks a stunning foray into disco and units the tone for his daring, boundless new period on his third album, ‘Diáspora.’
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Tright here’s a warmth to NoMBe’s “Nu Lova” that lingers lengthy after the music’s closing echoes fade – a thick, intoxicating heat that pulses via the physique and lifts the soul.
It’s the sort of feeling you get on a sweaty night time underneath mirrorball gentle, when heartache offers approach to risk and a stranger’s smile appears like salvation. Launched final fall because the lead single off Diáspora – NoMBe’s forthcoming third album and a love letter to the Black musical custom – “Nu Lova” is an exhale, a celebration, a reckoning, and a rebirth.
It additionally marks a daring new course. “Nu Lova” is NoMBe’s first foray into disco, and he wears the style nicely: Sultry guitars shimmer over a pulsing beat as he basks within the excessive of rebound romance. There’s catharsis within the groove, launch within the rhythm. The entire monitor glows like a summer time sundown.
Two lips and daffodils
By my window sill
And I really like the scent I would like
Nu love, new hugs, no shrubs
I pull out the weeds
And the breeze take’em off
To someplace far
The place they received’t trigger hurt
And my coronary heart stays heat
Like my garden within the solar
This rebound shit is legit and a visit
Child time will inform if it gels or we give up
“Nu Lova” is about popping out of a relationship with the mindset of not letting it derail you,” NoMBe (née Noah McBeth) tells Atwood Journal. “Saying, I’m not going to take a seat round crying, I’m gonna prepare, exit, and meet somebody new. It offers a barely constructive and cheeky spin on breakups, the place you nearly really feel a weight being lifted.”
That power is felt from the very first verse: “Two lips and daffodils by my windowsill… New love, new hugs, no shrubs / I pull out the weeds and the breeze take ’em off,” NoMBe croons within the first verse, buying and selling out the outdated and overgrown for one thing contemporary and unburdened.
“My relationship on the time of writing had withered for fairly a while, I believe. Therefore all of the flower and spring analogies,” he provides.
At its coronary heart, “Nu Lova” is a rebound anthem, however one dressed up in glitter and glow – cheeky, soulful, and self-aware.
NoMBe doesn’t shrink back from the transience or messiness of post-breakup love; as a substitute, he leans into it, embracing the excessive that comes with falling quick and the consolation of somebody new. The story he tells is one in every of launch – letting go of what was and giving in to the now, nevertheless fleeting that could be.
Seasons they alter finest imagine
Like lovers
Like days of the week (child)
Oooooh
Friday night time you stated goodbye
However then I went
Straight into Saturday and fell in love once more
So let me introduce you to my
New, new, my new, new, new lover
Let me introduce you to my
New new, model new, boo and lover
His refrain, sung in gorgeous falsetto, is a very radiant contact – hovering as he sings, “New, new, my new, new, new lover / Let me introduce you to my new new, model new, boo and lover.” There’s a glow in his voice – gentle, unburdened, effervescent – that captures the buoyancy of these early, electrical emotions. The repetition appears like each a celebration and a spell, a approach to manifest the subsequent chapter into existence. “Friday night time you stated goodbye / However then I went straight into Saturday and fell in love once more,” he sings, cheeky and self-aware. The center strikes on, whether or not we’re prepared or not.
“The irony of ‘Nu Lova’ is that the ‘new’ individual I fell for shortly turned a reasonably chaotic situationship,” NoMBe confesses. “When that fell aside, one way or the other the monitor advanced into being about my now-wife. It’s unusual how songs can hold evolving in that means.”
He nonetheless remembers the second the music clicked into place. “Sonically, it began in Hawai’i, the place I used to be dwelling on the time and I used to be practising bass,” he remembers. “I one way or the other had the thought for that development and all of it effortlessly got here collectively. I bear in mind feeling nervous and giggity as a result of I discovered ‘that factor.’ It solely occurs so usually.”
The music additionally marked a inventive breakthrough for him. “I picked this music because it was the primary full demo that felt like, ‘that is the course for me.’ It felt so proper and like I wanted to make extra of it, no matter it was. It summed up my imaginative and prescient completely.” That imaginative and prescient threads into Diáspora as an entire – a sprawling, celebratory exploration of identification, legacy, and private development.
NoMBe has at all times been a sonic shapeshifter, however Diáspora appears like his most intentional and expansive work up to now.
The place previous tasks blurred style traces – mixing indie rock, funk, soul, and different R&B right into a singular, seductive model – right here he redraws them totally, embracing disco not as a retro throwback, however as a vessel for storytelling, motion, and pleasure. “Nu Lova” is just the start: A vibrant, groove-laden entry level right into a physique of labor that honors the previous whereas pushing boldly forward.
“Other than the nods to the 1970’s and Black music discovered all through Diáspora, I believe it’s about belief,” NoMBe displays. “Trusting that what I instinctively felt good, would additionally resonate with folks regardless of what the expectations had been. Your complete report is the results of this letting go… I moved to Hawai’i as a result of I wanted to quiet all the pieces round me, to listen to what I truly wished to specific. To me that’s what artwork is… it’s deeply private expression. It’s not about manufacturing success based mostly on what somebody has appreciated up to now. It’s scary, however the one means I wish to create.”
Now, we’ve been on and off
and I’m bout to maneuver on
This too shall go, so I go the baton
There’s lots fish and my web’s fairly lengthy
So I drown my drip in a fifth of cologne
Slide to the bar the place they these songs
And speak my shit until the birds come residence
Child, all night time lengthy within the reduce having enjoyable
Until run out of luck or discover junk within the trunk
With Diáspora simply across the nook, “Nu Lova” doesn’t simply mark a brand new chapter – it reaffirms the spirit that’s at all times set NoMBe aside: fearless, fluid, and fiercely dedicated to the artwork of turning into.
Over a decade in the past, I wrote about NoMBe’s breakout single “California Women,” calling it that 2015’s music of the summer time – “sultry and darkish beat-driven, however melodically targeted… a fusion of colourful kinds…” and praising his “poetic, private, emotional, and distinctive” lyrical circulate. Ten years later, that charming artistry stays – now deepened, sharpened, and fueled by even higher ardour and goal. “Nu Lova” feels each acquainted and contemporary: A sonic step ahead, rooted in historical past however reaching for the longer term. NoMBe stays a strident sonic trailblazer, and “Nu Lova” exemplifies this as his superbly daring first foray into disco.
“I would like folks to really feel empowered in all elements of life,” he says. “I would like them to bop, really feel the infectious bassline, and discover a multifaceted music that works in lots of settings: the automotive, a BBQ, the membership, or bed room.” And behind the scenes, there’s no compromise – simply relentless dedication to craft. “I’ve personally taken away that while you undergo the trial and error, there’s at all times a approach to specific your self whereas additionally making catchy tunes. I’ve a tough time compromising in music, whether or not that’s preparations or lyrics. So the reply has turn out to be obsession – till it hits all of the marks.”
NoMBe’s story has at all times been one in every of evolution – of pushing boundaries whereas staying true to the self. With “Nu Lova,” he steps boldly right into a vibrant new period outlined by belief, liberation, and legacy, letting the groove information the best way. It’s an exciting first style of Diáspora, his most expansive and intentional physique of labor up to now – and a celebration of Black heritage, private therapeutic, and artistic freedom. Out July 2nd through Place Music, Diáspora finds NoMBe not simply reinventing his sound, however embracing it totally.
Beneath, he speaks with Atwood Journal concerning the inspiration behind “Nu Lova,” the making of Diáspora, and the non-public revelations that introduced this radiant new period to life.
Seasons they alter finest imagine
Like lovers
Like days of the week (child)
Oooooh
Friday night time you stated goodbye
However then I went
Straight into Saturday and fell in love once more
So let me introduce you to my
New, new, my new, new, new lover
Let me introduce you to my
New new, model new, boo and lover
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A CONVERSATION WITH NoMBe
Atwood Journal: Noah, at the start good day outdated buddy. I am unable to imagine it has been ten years! For many who are simply catching up with what you and your music mission are as much as right this moment, how would you outline this period of your profession?
NoMBe: What’s up Mitch! That’s insane!!! Time flies! Truthfully, I believe this space feels much more grounded and in a way, assured? I’m actually leaning onto the music I’d wish to hear myself, greater than ever earlier than. Plus fatherhood in fact… it actually modifications your perspective.
Creatively, I believe throughout the pandemic I bought misplaced a bit and simply creating for the ether. CHROMATOPIA felt like a large launch (no pun supposed), but additionally left questioning what’s subsequent. Nevertheless now, with Diáspora, I really feel totally expressed in one of the simplest ways.
You adopted final spring’s NOAH EP with September’s “Nu Lova,” which I will be making the highest slot of my subsequent Editor’s Picks! What is that this music about, for you, and of all of the songs in your upcoming album, why tease it out first ?
NoMBe: Wow, thanks for the choose! “Nu Lova” is about popping out of a relationship with the mindset of not letting it derail you. Saying, I’m not going to take a seat round crying, I’m gonna prepare, exit, and meet somebody new. It offers a barely constructive and cheeky spin break ups, the place you nearly really feel a weight being lifted. My relationship on the time of writing had “withered” for fairly a while, I believe. Therefore all of the flower and spring analogies.
“New love, new hugs, no shrubs.. I pull out the weeds and the breeze takes them off…” I picked this music because it was the primary full demo that felt like “that is the course for me.” It felt to proper and like I wanted to make extra of it, no matter it was. It summed up my imaginative and prescient completely.
What is the story behind “Nu Lova,” for you? How did it come to be?
NoMBe: Including to what I discussed earlier, the irony of Nu Lova is that the “new” individual I fell for, shortly turned a reasonably chaotic situationship. When that fell aside, one way or the other the monitor advanced into being about my, now spouse. It’s unusual how songs can hold evolving in that means.
Sonically, it began in Hawai’i, the place I used to be dwelling on the time and I used to be practising bass. I one way or the other had the thought for that development and all of it effortlessly got here collectively. I bear in mind feeling nervous and giggity as a result of I discovered “that factor”. It solely occurs so usually.
How does this monitor match into the general narrative of Diáspora?
NoMBe: Other than the nods to the 1970’s and Black music discovered all through Diáspora, I believe it’s about belief.
Trusting that what I instinctively felt good, would additionally resonate with folks regardless of of what the expectations had been. Your complete report is the results of this letting go… I moved to Hawaii as a result of I wanted to quiet all the pieces round me, to listen to what I truly wished to specific. To me that’s what artwork is… it’s deeply private expression. It’s not about manufacturing success based mostly on what somebody has appreciated up to now. It’s scary, however the one means I wish to create.
What do you hope listeners take away from “Nu Lova,” and what have you ever taken away from creating it and now placing it out?
NoMBe: I would like folks to really feel empowered in all elements of life. I would like them to bop, really feel the infectious bass line, and discover a multifaceted music that works in lots of settings: The automotive, a BBQ, the membership, or bed room.
I’ve personally taken away that while you undergo the trial and error, there’s at all times a approach to specific your self whereas additionally making catchy tunes. I’ve a tough time compromising in music, whether or not that’s preparations or lyrics. So to the reply has turn out to be obsession till it hits all of the marks.
You’ve got since launched a slew of phenomenal songs embracing disco, R&B, Afrobeats, and extra – from “Sugar Rush” and “Sand in My third Eye” to “In This Room” and “Please Do not Feed the Lions,” whereas there are through-lines between this music and moments on CHROMATOPIA and They May’ve Even Cherished Me, your new songs share a particular DNA. What’s that DNA, to you? What’s the connective tissue that makes 2025’s NoMBe distinct from previous variations of your self?
NoMBe: I’m so comfortable you’ve picked up on that… it’s onerous to pinpoint one single g hing, I’ve been conceptualizing this album for the reason that finish of They May’ve Even Cherished Me, even held sure concepts again. I knew that CHROMATOPIA was going to be a template or leaping off level (I had traveled to Japan and researched what I wished it to be on the time).
So equally with Diáspora, I went to Brazil to faucet into my obsession for his or her music of the ’60s and ’70s. I deliberate it. I took into consideration present occasions, my inspiration and heritage, linked with likeminded artists, learn books, studied art work, listened to ’70s classica in very targeted periods. I made very deliberate decisions of what the palette was.
I believe it was in 2021/22 I started telling folks concerning the subsequent album being “Anderson.Paak, Tame Impala & Daft Punk, assembly up in Brazil for a summer time.”
…in the end, in my travels I found a solidarity and shared expertise as a blended, Black individual in artwork. This realizing glued all of it collectively and gave it a much bigger that means than the sonics itself. Or so I hope not less than!
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