“Gentle” By Naima Bock

Naima Bock has shared a video for her latest single “Gentle.” The track is off the Sub Pop artist’s forthcoming album Below a Massive Dark Land, available September 27th. The LP is the follow-up to her 2022 debut Giant Palm. Bock begins her tour on August 15th in St. Malo, France at La Route Du Rock.

Naima says of the song and video, “I’ve lived with this song for a couple of years. It’s a kind of copy and paste of different sections of my life, each verse is a different version of myself or situation I was in. None of them link in reality, but they fit together in this song, which leaves me with a sense of union and satisfaction. I would like to allow for the listener to take the lyrics in whatever way is relevant to them. I can say it’s my favourite song to play and one of my favourite songs that I’ve written. It means a lot to me.”

Directors Ellie Wintour and Sophie Lincoln offer this, “Our jumping off point for the video began with the lyrics ‘You want me to be gentle, fragile, you want me to stay young. I pray that I stay gentle, fragile, I pray that I stay.’ We developed Naima a character playing on femininity as facade, but also her sense of easygoing style. In using two-dimensional substitutes for three-dimensional objects – mixing worlds of the real and make-believe – we tried to play on the song’s themes of expectation, assigned roles, and conformity.”

Naima Bock
Below A Massive Dark Land
Sub Pop Records

Tracklisting:
1. Gentle
2. Kaley
3. Feed My Release
4. My Sweet Body
5. Lines
6. Further Away
7. Takes One
8. Age
9. Moving
10. Star

Naima Bock 2024 Tour Dats

Wed. Aug. 15 – St. Malo, FR – La Route Du Rock +
Thu. Aug. 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Barnsdall Gallery Theatre ^
Fri. Aug. 23 – Los Angeles, CA – TBA
Sat. Aug. 24 – Ojai, CA – Greater Goods
Sep. 05 – Arcata, CA – The Miniplex
Mon. Sep. 09 – Portland, OR – Music Millennium (instore)
Fri. Sep. 13 – Walla Walla, WA – Billsville West
Sun. Sep. 15 – Seattle, WA – The Rabbit Box
Mon. Oct. 21 – Boston, MA – Warehouse X1
Wed. Oct 23 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Fri. Oct. 25 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
Sat. Oct. 26 – Washington, DC – Rhizome
Wed. Nov. 06 – London, UK – St. Pancras Old Church +
Thu. Nov. 07 – Bristol, UK – Jam Jar *
Fri. Nov. 08 – Liverpool, UK – Leaf *
Sat. Nov. 09 – Newcastle, UK – Cumberland Arms *
Sun. Nov. 10 – Glasgow, UK – McChuills *
Tue. Nov. 12 – Leeds, UK – Hyde Park Book Club *
Wed. Nov. 13 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute *
Thu. Nov. 14 – Cambridge, UK – Storey’s Field Centre *
Sat. Nov. 16 – Falmouth, UK – The Cornish Bank *
Sun. Nov. 17 – Frome, UK – The Tree House *
Mon. Nov. 18 – Exeter, UK – Cavern Club *
Wed. Nov. 20 – Ipswich, UK – St Stephens Church *
Thu. Nov. 21 – London, UK – The Ivy House *
Tue. Dec. 03 – Lille, FR – L ‘Aéronef *
Wed. Dec. 04 – Brugge, BE – Cactus Café *
Fri. Dec. 06 – Haldern, DE – Pop Bar *
Sat. Dec. 07 – Hamburg, DE – Nachstasyl *
Sun. Dec. 08 – Berlin, DE – Neu Zunkunft *
Tue. Dec. 10 – Cologne, DE – Subway *
Wed. Dec. 11 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso *
Thu. Dec. 12 – Brussels, BE – Botanique *
Fri. Dec. 13 – Paris, FR – La Boule Noire *