🎧 Approved: Nina Cobham

Nina Cobham is a Manchester-based artist whose sound feels like a quiet meeting point between British alt-pop and Spanish bossa nova. 

Having spent part of her childhood in a small mountain town in Spain, her bilingual upbringing seeps into her music with easy grace, unfolding as sun-dappled, bossa-inflected songs that flit between English and Spanish - all while carrying a subtly lo-fi, experimental edge in the production.

New single ‘I’m The Problem’ pairs deceptively airy vocals with a sense of frustration just under the surface, charting the prickly realisations and transitions that can arise as a woman in your early twenties. 

“As a young woman in music who is doing well - and better than some of my male counterparts - I’ll get, ‘Oh, she’s just doing well because of this or that’, and it grinds my gears”, she says. “I worked my arse off for this. I’d still invite some of these people to events because I was trying to rise above it - and then I wrote this song when I was finally like… why am I doing this?”

It’s a gentle track that stands strong; exploring that quiet realisation to stop making yourself smaller.

🎧 Watch the video for ‘I'm The Problem’ below