Nova Soon is a space-folk artist from London, UK. The storytelling songs of Noah de Grunwald can be desolate, joyful, comical or sinister — often all at once — but always somehow evoke cosmic smallness. Musically, reverb-laced nylon fingerstyle and jazz/synth flourishes meet meticulous lyricism to forge a modern sound: one that reclaims folk from forest/valley nostalgia and roots it in 2020s brainspace.

Nova Soon's new EP, Goodbyetown, will be released in autumn 2024, preceded by singles 'Antarctica' and 'Four Walls & The Sky'. Retelling the death from leukaemia of Noah's songwriter father Nick, and Noah's subsequent years caring for his mother Barbara in the memory-laden house where he died, the EP weaves a black-and-white seaside purgatory world, through which the listener must walk to escape back to full-colour life. Raw classical arpeggios and first-take vocals, speeding and slowing organically, float above mystic fog-scapes of synth, bass, and harmonies (courtesy of multi-instrumentalist producer James Smithells). All the while, found sounds from Nick's life shimmer in and out: breathing, speaking, laughing, singing, footsteps, plus seagulls, waves, and wind. The result is a heavy, heady recording, full of emptiness and anger, but also, in the end, vast joy in life, and — Nick's particular legacy — love for music. As the six-minute title track's climax whispers, with hard-won gratitude: 'In the great, cruel sweep of time, there is a song.'

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Nova Soon’s debut album, You Are Alive, was released in 2019 to acclaim from BBC 6 Music, KEXP, Mojo and Jammerzine. In the intervening time, Noah has gigged religiously, supporting artists like The (Beautiful) South, October Drift, and The Irrepressibles; plus appearing at festivals such as XR, BBC Introducing, Trunchonbury and Wild Paths. Noah has also released two standalone singles in 2021; completed an MA in Songwriting at ICMP in 2022; and founded a successful monthly series of intimate London gigs, 'Quiet Light Sessions'.