Nicole Atkins

As Uncut recently put it, Nicole Atkins is “a retro-pop auteur and one of the few singers of her generation for whom the term chanteuse accurately applies.” All the world’s a stage on Drama, her seventh studio offering and first in six years. Produced by Pat Sansone (Wilco) in Nashville and written by Atkins, Drama creates a world securely rooted in the past while remaining deeply personal. Arriving on the legendary Sun Records via the Wicked Game imprint of her longtime friend and collaborator Chris Isaak, Drama is an out-of-time instant classic from an artist whose voice and vision are unmistakably her own.