New album celebrates the life of Fernie musician Nell Smith
- The Fernie community celebrated musician Nell Smith on Apr. 10 by launching her posthumous album, Anxious, which was played for the first time at Vogue Theatre.
- Nell Smith passed away last year in a car collision, and her parents helped finish the album with contributions from friends and musicians.
- Proceeds from the event will support the Nell Smith Memorial Fund, which aims to help aspiring musicians and has raised nearly $50,000 so far.
- Rachel Smith expressed that grief is a personal journey, saying, 'It's still not real that she's gone,' while also emphasizing the positive legacy of Nell's music.
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Albums Of The Week: Nell Smith
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “A posthumous record is always charged with emotion — but when it comes from a 17-year-old artist that was just getting started it is particularly heartbreaking. Anxious is a mesmerizing selection of songs that explore the highs, lows and uncertainty of teenage life through the eyes of Nell Smith. It is […] The post Albums Of The Week: Nell Smith | Anxious appeared first on Tinnitist.
The posthumous solo debut of the singer/songwriter revels in the alto pop of the 1990s. "I wanna make a song like David Byrne" sings Nell Smith in "Anxious", the title track of this album. It doesn't sound like David Byrne at all. Rather, 1990's alternative sounds – think of the flaming lips that Nell Smith recorded in 2022, at that time just 14 years old, the Nick Cave cover album WHERE THE VIADUCT LOOMS – on...
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