Under previous project "NANI", Nani Porenta built a considerable catalogue of releases over the past few establishing herself in Scotland's music scene, frequently collaborating with artists like Jacob Alon, Lewis McLaughlin & Katie Gregson-MacLeod. Her previous EPs received airplay on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC 6 Music, with the track "Sunshine" being featured on BBC Introducing's Hot List.

Spending the past two years working on new material, Nani realised she was aiming for a fresh start. This new music features a sound much closer to her heart & with a much more personal feel.

Following up her most recent EP, “South Clerk St Demos”, Nani released her latest single “Wasteland” on May 20, and is due to release her next single “Some Body” on June 24.

‘Wasteland’ moves between restraint and rupture, echoing Nani’s signature blending of introspection and an experimental approach to sound.

On ‘Wasteland’ Nani shares: “‘Wasteland’ is about being in conflict with your own mind, when the thing guiding you is also the thing undoing you. I’ve dealt with OCD from a really young age, long before I understood what it was. It made me question my own thoughts constantly - where they came from, whether they meant anything, whether I could trust them at all. It shaped how I moved through the world: the decisions I made, the risks I avoided. For a long time, it felt like I was getting in my own way, like I wasn’t living up to my potential, and that it was somehow my fault.”

On ‘Some Body’ Nani shares:“I wrote the first version of this song almost instantly after a breakup, but it took me close to a year to finish. That process ended up mirroring the feeling at the core of it — going back and forth, trying to understand what happened, trying to place yourself within it, while everything keeps shifting. It came from that strange in-between state where everything feels slightly off — your routines, your sense of self, even the way your name sounds when someone else says it. You’re trying to recalibrate, but nothing quite settles. There’s a push and pull between holding on and letting go, between memory and reality. In the end, time is the only thing that really moves it forward. 

The song doesn’t try to resolve anything, it just sits with the absence — allowing space for things to feel incomplete, unsettled. Like your body is still catching up with something your mind already knows.”

The new singles were recorded and co-produced with Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) as part of Nani’s upcoming EP, “Like Clockwork”.

Written over several years, “Like Clockwork” gathers fragments of loss, disorientation and repetition into a loose, shifting landscape. Rather than following a linear narrative, the songs circle, return and unravel, tracing patterns that are recognised, repeated, and just as quickly forgotten.

At its heart is a tension between control and surrender. The body becomes a place where memory lingers long after meaning has dissolved, and identity begins to shift at the point of separation. There are moments of presence without capacity—relationships held in place while something internal remains unresolved—alongside an increasingly adversarial inner voice. Language begins to collapse under its own weight, misfiring and reshaping in real time, until communication feels unreliable and unstable.

The record mirrors this instability sonically. Guitar-led compositions stretch into texture and space, moving between intimacy and rupture. Songs expand, fragment or dissolve entirely, while distortion, stillness and fluid song structures blur the line between songwriting and sound design.

On working with Andy, Nani shares: “This was the first song Andy & I worked on together. It was our getting to-know-each-other. I instantly felt at ease being in the studio with him, which was a new experience for me since I’ve always worked as a bedroom producer. I was unsure how I’d feel letting someone else into that process but the connection we made felt instant, and I felt seen & heard as an equal.”