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 the noise, offering something rare: music that speaks to the soul, unafraid to challenge, unafraid to awaken.
Through intricate guitar figures that seem to spiral endlessly and serve as a 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 masters like 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 weave an experience that is felt as much as it is heard, his live performances don’t just entertain, they transcend to create a chorus of unity, a communion of sound and feeling.
From his early days studying ethnomusicology in London, to guitar in Havana and then onto 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 him a second Mercury Prize nomination and 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 still into the spiritual and mythic dimensions of songcraft, delivering compositions that felt at once ancient and urgent, intimate and universal.
Onstage Nick’s journey has taken him from sell out European and US solo tours to The Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and London’s The Royal Albert Hall and Hammersmith Apollo. Offstage, Mulvey is a devoted father who finds solace in nature, family and friendship and draws from his newly found relationship with Jesus to navigate both life and artistry.
Now, having founded Supernatural Records and preparing for the release of his new albums 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 the legendary producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini), the boundary-pushing Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins), and the globally renowned Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again).
“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.
