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.

The band's latest single "Post Hang", features soft keys glazing over sparse, dreamy guitar transmissions. The song, which accompanies the announcement of their debut album "VACATION" releasing February 14 2025, is about “the end of a long night shift at the bar you barback at. You’re exhausted, sitting on the hood of your car with your coworker that you’re kind of friends with but would never schedule a time to hang out, though you talk about hanging out every time you work together. You’re both splitting your last cigarette, discussing how you need a vacation, secretly wondering if this is what the rest of your lives will be like.”

It arrives on the heels of “Voided Velvet (feat. Michigander),” which cruises along on a buoyant and breezy upbeat groove accented by glossy keys and loose guitar.

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.