There’s something quietly radical about Nick Mulvey.
His songs don’t shout for attention, yet they demand it. His music has always felt like a slow burning invitation to listen more closely, to step outside the noise, to feel, even when it’s hard. In a world brimming with distraction, he cuts through it, offering something rare: music that speaks to the soul, unafraid to challenge, unafraid to awaken.
Through intricate guitar figures that seem to spiral endlessly serving as both foundation and vehicle for his words few artists so seamlessly bridge the sacred and the everyday. His music carries the poetic weight of Leonard Cohen, the introspective fragility of Nick Drake, and the hypnotic, polyrhythmic pulse of West African guitar master Ali Farka Touré. A songwriter and deeply intuitive storyteller, Mulvey’s craft is about finding the sacred in sound whether through the geometric fingerpicking of his early work or his ability to weave philosophy and social consciousness into melody.
Find yourself at one of Nick’s gigs and you’ll be wrapped in a sense of belonging. With his ability to create an experience felt as much as it is heard, his live performances don’t just entertain they transcend, generating a chorus of unity and a communion of sound and feeling.
From his early days studying ethnomusicology in London, to studying guitar in Havana, and then co founding the Mercury nominated Portico Quartet, Mulvey’s journey has never been conventional. His shimmering debut solo album, First Mind (2014), established him as a standout force in modern music earning a Mercury Prize nomination and widespread acclaim for his hypnotic finger picked guitar work and deeply poetic lyricism. His follow up, Wake Up Now (2017), expanded his sonic and thematic scope, weaving global rhythms, environmental consciousness, and a call for collective awakening into anthems of hope and action.
With New Mythology (2022), Mulvey delved further into the spiritual and mythic dimensions of songcraft, delivering compositions that felt at once ancient and urgent, intimate and universal.
Onstage, his journey has taken him from sold out European and US solo tours to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival and iconic venues including Royal Albert Hall and Eventim Apollo.
Offstage, Mulvey is a devoted father who finds solace in nature, family, and friendship. In recent years, he has also drawn from a renewed Christian faith to navigate both life and artistry.
Now, having founded Supernatural Records and preparing for the release of Dark Harvest Part 1 and Dark Harvest Part 2, Mulvey finds himself in a new state of artistic independence and empowerment. These records see him working alongside a cast of world class collaborators, including legendary producer Jimmy Hogarth, boundary pushing musician Leo Abrahams, and production duo Parisi.
“For me Dark Harvest Part 1 tracks the descent and grief that hit me in the last three years, during the losses and challenges I faced. Often brutal, these years have tenderised me, as I know they have others. Making this music carried me through.
Dark Harvest Part 2 is the first fruits after a deep winter songs that tell of a new creation and a clarified faith.
Back when I was at the hardest point, when I was on my knees, a friend said to me, ‘There will be a dark harvest to all of this, Nick. There will be treasure from these struggles.’ And she was right.”
In the lineage of artists who bridge worlds Paul Simon, Jeff Buckley, José González Nick Mulvey continues to carve out a space uniquely his own. With Dark Harvest Parts 1 and 2, he delivers records that feel like an open horizon: expansive, luminous, and alive with possibility.