New Translations

Biting, genuine, thoughtful, playful, joyful, and sincere, Nashville’s New Translations embrace contradictions and exist to confound. A band that captures the dizzy surreality of being alive in confusing times. After a series of singles and EPs like 2023's "The Business", New Translations singer Oliver Pierce, multi-instrumentalists Isaac Middleton and Andrés Ahogado, bassist and producer Ben Dunn, and drummer Philip Walker have settled into a new era that finds them doubling down on their complexities, while writing some of their most vulnerable songs to date.

With their debut album “VACATION”, the band invites listeners to join them on a trip through 11 tracks, jetting from moments of lovelorn 21st century new wave, to bold, emotionally charged pop. “Love Bombb” features a loose delay-drenched guitar washing over head-nodding drums. A glitchy beat set “who i am tonight” in motion while the glassy “TV at Home” tempers organic instrumentation with warm electronics.

They paved the way for the album with “Coldest Century” and past singles "Post Hang", “Voided Velvet (feat. Michigander)”, “Vacation”, “Sally” and “Rat People”.

With their new music, the members of New Translations stand confident in their role as boundary pushers and leaders of a non-country music vanguard in Nashville. Their mission remains: “I want us to find the outsiders and create a community that celebrates the strange,” Pierce says.