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London musician Nabihah Iqbal will play her first Australian live shows in January 2024. Iqbal is touring in support of her second album, Dreamer, released on Ninja Tune in April 2023. Iqbal has ...
Nabihah Iqbal, “Dreamer” (Ninja Tune) Everybody's initial pandemic months were rough, but London-based musician Nabihah Iqbal's were rougher than most. In early 2020, a burglar ransacked her ...
That shadow is even more acute on Nabihah Iqbal’s “Dreamer,” an album the British singer-songwriter released in 2023 that was born after not just the global health emergency, but a series of ...
Six years after her debut, Nabihah Iqbal’s sophomore album, DREAMER, emerges from a treacherous creation process.The London-based musician lost her demos in a 2020 studio burglary, then spent ...
The debut album from Nabihah Iqbal (FKA Throwing Shade) was one of 2017's most slept-on gems. Indebted to '80s synth-pop and representing a gear shift as the U.K. artist moved from making ...
However, for her 2017 debut, Weighing Of The Heart, Iqbal ditched that alias in order to create a more personal record that leaned more towards the influence of ’80s post-punk as well as her own ...
Nabihah Iqbal: Michael Jackson is my number one original musical obsession, but I'm not going to play something too familiar. I've got some of his early, early demo recordings so I'll play one of ...
Nabihah Iqbal's music – poetry-forward, electronica-laced dream pop – captures this crucial aspect with the appearance of ease.The journey began in earnest with her 2017 project Weighing on ...
On her debut LP, British producer Nabihah Iqbal—fka Throwing Shade—has a rare touch with inky new wave synths and drum machines, emerging as a songwriter of impressive emotional heft.
FKA as Throwing Shade, Nabihah Iqbal ditched her moniker in favor of her given name in order to stand proudly as a British-Asian artist. On Iqbal's first long-player she approached the sessions with ...
Music Nabihah Iqbal’s new album, ‘Dreamer,’ lives up to its title. The singer-songwriter will perform at Quarry House Tavern on Tuesday, Sept. 24.