Nick Mulvey

There is something quietly radical about Nick Mulvey. His songs do not shout for attention, yet they demand it. His music has always been a subtle and profound invitation: to listen more carefully, to get out of the din, to hear-even when it is difficult. In a world full of distractions, he manages to make his way by offering something rare: music that speaks to the soul, unafraid to challenge, unafraid to awaken.

Through intricate guitar arpeggios that seem to wind endlessly, Mulvey creates a natural bridge between the sacred and the everyday like few other artists can. His music encompasses the poetic weight of Leonard Cohen, the introspective fragility of Nick Drake, and the hypnotic, polyrhythmic beat of West African guitar masters like Ali Farka Touré.

From his early years studying ethnomusicology in London, to perfecting guitar in Havana, to co-founding the Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet, Mulvey’s path has been anything but conventional. His brilliant debut solo album, First Mind (2014), established him as one of the most unique voices in contemporary music-earning him a second Mercury Prize nomination and acclaim for his hypnotic guitar style and deeply poetic lyricism. His second album, Wake Up Now (2017), expanded its sonic and thematic scope, weaving global rhythms, environmental consciousness and a collective call to awakening into anthems of hope and action.

With New Mythology (2022), Mulvey has further deepened the spiritual and mythical dimensions of composition, creating pieces that seem at once ancient and urgent, intimate and universal.

Now, with the founding of his label Supernatural Records and the upcoming release of his new albums Dark Harvest Part 1 and Dark Harvest Part 2, Mulvey is in a state of artistic independence and renewed creative strength.

These records see him collaborate with a cast of world-class producers, including the legendary Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini), the innovative Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins), and the celebrated Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again).

“For me, Dark Harvest Part 1 recounts the descent and pain that has affected me over the past three years, amid the losses and challenges I have faced. Years that were often brutal, but they also made me more sensitive, as I think has happened to many others. Creating this music has helped me get through it. Dark Harvest Part 2 is the first harvest after a long winter, songs about a new creation and a clearer faith.
When I was at my most difficult, on my knees, a friend said to me, ‘There will be a dark harvest from all this, Nick, there will be a treasure from these difficulties.’ And he was right.”

In the wake of artists who manage to connect different worlds-Paul Simon, Jeff Buckley, José González-Nick Mulvey continues to carve a path of his own. With Dark Harvest Part 1 and Part 2, he gives us albums that open like a boundless horizon: expansive, bright and alive with possibility.