Michael Nau

Michael Nau is from the softly-softly school, allowing life to unfold at its own pace: if the UK and mainland Europe didn’t know who he was, they’d come around it to eventually. Now that Full Time Hobby have decided his exquisite solo record Mowing deserves to be his first official release over here, that time has arrived. The album’s 12 spare, tender, wistful songs – its mood perfectly mirrored by Nau’s voice – draw on folk, soul, country and aspects of bossa nova and reggae. In other words, not your usual brand of Americana emanating from the Appalachian Mountains where Nau lives, in the town of Cumberland in the state of Maryland.

Written between 2011 and 2014, the songs arrived in Cumberland, or while touring, on a back porch in Nashville and in Vermont and Connecticut. They were not intended to be an album until Nau realised he had the makings of one, and cherry-picked the songs that felt like a cohesive statement.
“No matter how much I enjoy putting things together on my own, nothing’s as rewarding as playing with people, and working out songs that way,’ Nau feels. “It made the music feel more real and true. It’s the same vibe as a live show, when I’m least in control and I don’t spend nearly as much time thinking about stuff or how to fix it.”
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