Nina Nastasia unveils new song "This Is Love"

After returning last month with her Riderless Horse lead single "Just Stay In Bed", Nina Nastasia has unveiled a second track from her first album in 12 years titled "This Is Love".

"Somehow I got comfortable living with trauma, living in a fight and sitting in sadness," Nastasia explains. "Happiness came in moments, but I must have gravitated towards misery, because I built a life around it. My definition of love became skewed."

Nastasia adds, ""This Is Love" is a love I don’t want to repeat. I’m not regretful. It was love, but love doesn’t have to look like that if you ultimately don’t want it to."

Riderless Horse will follow 2010's Outlaster, and documents Nastasia's grief after her former partner and collaborator Kennan Gudjonsson died by suicide in 2020.

She said of the album last month, "Riderless Horse documents the grief, but it also marks moments of empowerment and a real happiness in discovering my own capability. Steve Albini produced this record with me, and Greg Norman assisted. The three of us are old friends, and we did a field recording in a guesthouse built like a lighthouse that two very dear friends of mine have in Esopus, NY. It was exactly the right environment to work on this record. We all had meals together, cried, laughed, and told stories. It was perfect. It made me realise how much I love writing, playing and recording music."