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Following the release of recent singles “Quiet” and “Artifact”, Saskatchewan songwriter Megan Nash is sharing another new single, “My Own Heart”, a song about heartache. “It’s about sitting with grief and loss,” says Nash. “Feeling all of the heavy and uncomfortable feelings. And wanting to hear nothing but your own heartbeat. No inspirational quotes, no unsolicited relationship advice, no “fish in the sea” cliches. Just your heartbeat. Making sure it’s still there. That you’re still you.
Like most of my songs, the Canadian Prairies provide the backdrop, the passing of time marked by agricultural practices. I wrote this song in 2019 and that summer my sister, Jenna Nash, and I sang it for the first time at the Regina Folk Festival. We had the audience sing along with us. Hundreds of voices singing ‘My Own Heart Beating’. It was the saddest and the best singalong I’ve ever heard. It was important to me to have her sing on the recording. The vocal harmonies on this track are a highlight for me because it’s my sister and Tanner Wilhelm Hale singing with me. They are two of my dearest friends. After all, isn’t it our friends that support us through the hard times?”
“My Own Heart” arrives today complete with a lyric video from Andrew Friesen.
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MORE ABOUT MEGAN NASH
When the frigid winter ends and the earth absorbs every last blanket of snow, infinite dust blooms from the prairies. If you walk down a twilit dirt road in the middle of nowhere, south central Saskatchewan, that dust creeps onto and into you, cementing your relationship with the endlessness of the place—endless skies, endless wind, endless dust. Megan Nash knows this feeling more intimately than most. Despite taking their music all over the world, their songs always retain some piece of the prairies. There’s the grit of dust in the crunch of an overdriven guitar; the howl of wind in a soaring, hypnotic eruption of horns. And there is a boundlessness in her voice—electric with timbres both luminous and dusky, coloured with the textures of her poetry—that can’t help but recall those spellbinding skies.
With their 2017 album Seeker, Nash used that voice to establish herself as an artist with a singular vision. Mining loss, heartache, grief, dreams, and desire over lush soundscapes, she revealed themselves as the titular seeker—someone with a suitcase they never really empty, whose reach always exceeds their grasp. In the time since Seeker, Nash’s life has taken tumultuous turns. In their own words, the new music she’s been working on was written, “in the cracks of a foundation—in moments of reflection during years of whirlwind romance, gut wrenching heartbreak, reviving friendships, and life saving dog love.” They’re heavy, haunting, elegiac songs in which Nash has rendered themselves more vulnerable than ever.
In the middle of these mercurial past few years, Nash has been busier than ever on the road, most often with their seasoned backup outfit, The Best of Intentions (Dana Rempel on bass, Darnell Stewart on guitar, and Tanner Wilhelm Hale on drums). She’s played some of their biggest gigs both at home and on tour in Germany, Estonia, and the U.K., riding the momentum of her JUNO Award nomination for Seeker. And in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, she’s been proactive finding ways to connect with fans via events like drive-in and virtual shows. Rest assured that if it’s possible, she’ll be following those highway lines in 2021.
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