NINA – The Beginning

One of our biggest pop wishes for 2021 is that NINA and the legend that is Ricky Wilde might just cook up some more synthpop magic between them. Their musical partnership bore fruit with two of the best pop songs of 2020 in ‘Runaway’ and ‘Gave Up On Us’ so we are perched for where they might go next. In the meantime Aztec Records have brought together NINA’s early recordings on their ‘The Beginning’ compilation.

Those early tracks have aged remarkably well and sound like synthwave classics already. ‘My Mistake’, ‘We Are The Wild Ones’ (surely overdue a ‘We Are The Wilde Ones’ Ricky remix!) and ‘Dark Rider’ all gave us a hint of what was to follow with the double whammy of ‘Sleepwalking’ and ‘Synthian’. Those first videos similarly showed some serious star potential too – now just watch her fly in 2021.