★★★★★
The debut album from half-Scottish, half-Swedish songwriter Nina Nesbitt is pop so sugary it'll rot your teeth. Cutesy keyboards, AOR acoustic guitars and syrupy lyrics about "going crazy but I don't give a fuss!" ('He's The One I'm Bringing Back') make 'Peroxide' pretty much everything you'd expect from a singer-songwriter discovered by Ed Sheeran and whose big break came when she Disneyfied a Fleetwood Mac song for a John Lewis advert...
- www.nme.com
2014-02-18
★★★★★
Nineteen-year-old Scot Nina Nesbitt has skipped insouciantly down the contemporary route to fame. Posting cover versions on YouTube at 16, she received early endorsements from Ed Sheeran and Example, and won the iTunes new singer-songwriter of the year in 2012. Peroxide is the most pre-ordered debut album in Island history; those fans are known as Nesbians...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-02-16
★★★★★
An acute eye for the minutiae of teenage life ... Nina Nesbitt Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Nina NesbittPeroxideIsland Records2014 You've got to love a songwriter whose "fandom" call themselves Nesbians, but that's just the start of Nina Nesbitt's appeal...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-02-14
★★★★★
The lead single off this debut by 19-year-old Edinburgh native is called 'Selfies', so I think I can be forgiven for not heading into it expecting . Not, of course, that there's actually anything wrong with that. The Oxford English Dictionary didn't just recognise 'selfie' as a legitimate term last year; it actually declared it to be 'word of the year'. A perfectly pertinent topic, then, and who's to say we aren't due a twenty-first century 'You're So Vain', anyway? 'Selfies' isn't it, though...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
May 2012: half Scottish, half Swedish singer/songwriter Nina Nesbitt arrives in our life with her sumptuous The Apple Tree EP. October 2012: a sensational display at London's Dingwalls - with just a guitar for company - prompts us to put her on our Tips for 2013 list. 2013: Nesbitt pretty much wins over the whole of TMF Towers with a succession of strong EPs and a terrific UK tour, including a sold-out headline show at KOKO...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
Nina Nesbitt's 'Stay Out' EP, released in April, proved the Scottish singer more than capable of accessorising her pretty acoustic guitar tunes with pithy lyrics and adventurous rhythms. Sadly, this four-song follow-up finds the 19-year-old inching into blander territory. 'Way In The World' and 'Not Me' are dull mum-pop numbers; singing about a messy relationship on 'Spiders', she comes off like a budget Taylor Swift...
- www.nme.com
2013-07-22
★★★★★
It's not been long since the last offering from Nina Nesbitt but with new EP Way In The World, her musical growth is more apparent than ever. A huskier tone and her signature emotive narratives are what set the Scottish teen apart from the overly saturated acoustic market - galloping rhythms inject a rare energy into the singer-songwriter genre in a manner that is seldom seen nowadays...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-07-17
★★★★★
It's not been long since the last offering from Nina Nesbitt but with new EP Way In The World, her musical growth is more apparent than ever. A huskier tone and her signature emotive narratives are what set the Scottish teen apart from the overly saturated acoustic market - galloping rhythms inject a rare energy into the singer-songwriter genre in a manner that is seldom seen nowadays...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
We do hate to brag, but we did tell you so. TMF Tip for 2013 Nina Nesbitt looks firmly set for Big Things. 'Stay Out' has sped its way through Radio 1's playlists since its release and clocked up over 1m hits on YouTube, while March saw Nesbitt play her biggest shows to date and her first live TV performance. The arrival of this latest finely balanced and exceptional four-track EP confirms that she more than has the talent to succeed... and deservedly so...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-04-01