‘We’ve both developed in different ways’: Nadine Shah and Ben Hillier talk 10 years of collaboration
10th February 2021
For the past 10 years, Mercury Prize nominated artist Nadine Shah and producer Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, Elbow, Blur, Clinic, Doves) have been forging a formidable creative partnership. Over the course of four albums and multiple tours – Hillier plays drums in Shah’s touring band – the pair’s sound has evolved from jet black, guitar-driven alternative rock into something far more colourful and theatrical.
Where albums one and two (2013’s
Love Your Dum And Mad and 2015’s
Fast Food) saw Shah’s introspective, first-person tales of fractured relationships threaded expertly through Hillier’s tightly wound, claustrophobic musical frameworks, albums three and four (2017’s Mercury Prize nominated