Saint Nomad
Oct 23, 2020
“Nothing To Lose” is the new single from the band, Saint Nomad. Written in Los Angeles, it will be on the band's forthcoming album due in summer 2021 via Sidewalk/Curb Records. Consisting of real-life brothers from Russia, Nikita (vocals, keyboard), Ruslan (guitar, sampling) and Yan (drums, sampling) Odnoralov, the group self-produced and wrote every single song on their debut collection. However, they did welcome the expertise of co-producer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, James Bay). Their grassroots approach to the creative process has paid off in spades as they’ve honed a textured, nuanced sound that’s uniquely their own.
When asked about the making of the track, “Nothing To Lose,” Nikita began reflecting on all of the opportunities the brothers’ music career had afforded them thus far. “I’ve already had a lot of fun making music throughout my career, but I didn’t think I would get a chance to do it again like this,” he admits. “In that moment, I just felt a lot of freedom. I felt like I had nothing to lose. I just wanted to make it count.”
From the beginning, music has always been a part of Saint Nomad’s DNA. Although they were poor growing up, music consistently soundtracked family life for the six Odnoralov siblings in their native homeland of Russia. Nikita, Ruslan and Yan took piano lessons from their grandmother, who along with their grandfather, was a celebrated actor in St. Petersburg’s musical theater scene. Today, the brothers are hardly rookies. In fact, they’re seasoned touring musicians, having spent the past decade out on the road, recording and performing together.
“We’ve developed as artists and musicians, and we know what Saint Nomad should sound like,” attests Ruslan, who holds co-production credit on all of the band’s new material and has produced songs for a growing list of major label artists, including Mat Kearney, Lennon Stella, JP Saxe and BANNERS, among others.
For Nikita, who primarily helms vocals but also occasionally trades lead with his brothers, discovering their sound was as much about his vocal delivery as it was about capturing certain sonic nuances. A recent hiatus from touring gave him the time and space he needed to experiment, which also led to a lot of self-discovery in the process. “I feel like when we had the machine going, and everything was just go, go, go, it was really hard for me to stop and decompress and actually process what I’m doing with my voice and my sound,” Nikita shares. “I started thinking about what vocal qualities I like, what I like about our records, what sounds I like. I think that was a significant journey I personally had to take and bring to the band.”