Nadine Shah Went Through Hell and Wrote Her Way Out on Filthy Underneath [Video]

Within three years of releasing her fourth album Kitchen Sink, Nadine Shah’s world turned upside down. She helped care for her terminally ill mother, who lost her battle with cancer in 2020. Faced with severe grief and PTSD, Shah got married then divorced, and at one point tried to take her own life in 2022 before entering rehabilitation.

Since her 2013 debut, Love Your Dum and Mad, a tribute to two friends who were in the “throes of addiction” and took their lives through the Islamophobia she has faced living in the UK and female grievances around sexism, motherhood, and more on Kitchen Sink, Shah has always tapped into her life experiences, while also playing the observer before Filthy Underneath became her deepest excavation. The 11 tracks document an unprecedented period of turmoil for the South Tyneside-born singer and songwriter.

“There I was 10 years later in a rehabilitation facility, and I was the people that I had …