New Translations at Shank Hall

Biting, genuine, thoughtful, playful, joyful, and sincere, Nashvilles New Translations embrace contradictions and exist to confounda band that captures the dizzy surreality of being alive in confusing times. After a series of singles and EPs like 2023s The Business, New Translationssinger Oliver Pierce, multi-instrumentalists Isaac Middleton and Andres Ahogado, bassist and producer Ben Dunn, and drummer Philip Walkerhave settled into a new era that finds them doubling down on their complexities, while writing some of their most vulnerable songs to date. The groups new single Vacation, is a dynamic and dreamy song with shimmering neon keys, glassy guitars and breathy, delicate vocals. It also continues the idea of being an outsidera concept that has become a throughline in the groups latest work. 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.