Hear Nickel Creek's "A Dotted Line" Streaming in Full As NPR First Listen

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Nickel Creek's new album, A Dotted Line, is due out next Tuesday, April 1. But you don’t need to wait till then to hear it: the new album is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen. "There's no doubt that the virtuosity and vision of each Nickel Creek member has intensified," writes NPR's Ann Powers. The new album is "more adventurous than Nickel Creek's earlier work, and more expressive of each player's strengths ... It's tight, it's masterful; it's totally grown-up. But it's also a blast."

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Nickel Creek's new album, A Dotted Line, is due out next Tuesday, April 1, on Nonesuch Records. But you don’t need to wait till then to hear it. The new album from the Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum selling trio of Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins, reuniting for the first time since its 2007 self-described "indefinite hiatus," is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen at npr.org/music.

"There's no doubt that the virtuosity and vision of each Nickel Creek member has intensified," writes NPR's Ann Powers. The new album is "more adventurous than Nickel Creek's earlier work, and more expressive of each player's strengths."

Powers explains: "Each member displays how she or he has come to understand the marriage of emotion and chops, pop appeal and deep musical knowledge, that Nickel Creek represents. And each listens profoundly to the other throughout the process, striving for real equality—a rare achievement among three such dominant players ..."

She goes on to say that "Intuitive cooperation is what makes Nickel Creek so special .... It's remarkable, showing how three distinct voices can come together in the service of expressing how one person can feel many things at once."

Powers concludes: "It's tight, it's masterful; it's totally grown-up. But it's also a blast."

Read more and hear the complete album at npr.org/music.

To pre-order A Dotted Line, head to iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where vinyl (due April 21) and CD orders include an instant download of three tracks off the album: "Destination," "Love of Mine," and "21st of May."

The band is heading out on tour in April, starting with a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at New York's Town Hall. For details on all the shows, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

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  • Monday, March 24, 2014
    Hear Nickel Creek's "A Dotted Line" Streaming in Full As NPR First Listen
    Brantley Gutierrez

    Nickel Creek's new album, A Dotted Line, is due out next Tuesday, April 1, on Nonesuch Records. But you don’t need to wait till then to hear it. The new album from the Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum selling trio of Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins, reuniting for the first time since its 2007 self-described "indefinite hiatus," is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen at npr.org/music.

    "There's no doubt that the virtuosity and vision of each Nickel Creek member has intensified," writes NPR's Ann Powers. The new album is "more adventurous than Nickel Creek's earlier work, and more expressive of each player's strengths."

    Powers explains: "Each member displays how she or he has come to understand the marriage of emotion and chops, pop appeal and deep musical knowledge, that Nickel Creek represents. And each listens profoundly to the other throughout the process, striving for real equality—a rare achievement among three such dominant players ..."

    She goes on to say that "Intuitive cooperation is what makes Nickel Creek so special .... It's remarkable, showing how three distinct voices can come together in the service of expressing how one person can feel many things at once."

    Powers concludes: "It's tight, it's masterful; it's totally grown-up. But it's also a blast."

    Read more and hear the complete album at npr.org/music.

    To pre-order A Dotted Line, head to iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where vinyl (due April 21) and CD orders include an instant download of three tracks off the album: "Destination," "Love of Mine," and "21st of May."

    The band is heading out on tour in April, starting with a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at New York's Town Hall. For details on all the shows, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

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