Renowned songwriter and producer Charlie Nieland presents Stories From the Borderlines, a dazzling and deeply personal album that explores themes of connection and separation. This stands as one of Nieland’s most profound works to date. A New York City native now based in New Jersey, Nieland is celebrated for his production and songwriting credits with artists like Debbie Harry, Rufus Wainwright, Blondie, and Scissor Sisters.
The album’s passionately crafted songs are acts of imaginative resistance, searching for light and truth in an increasingly dark world. Nieland weaves together a visceral blend of post-punk, glam, dream pop, and progressive rock. Stories From the Borderlines features collaborations with guests such as Staten Island rapper Spiritchild and Joe McGinty (The Psychedelic Furs, Ryan Adams, Nada Surf). The new video for “Shame,” created by New York artists Hypnodoll and Alice Teeple, draws on themes of obsessive desire and the weaponization of repulsion against the queer community.
“This set of songs is a kaleidoscope of styles. They are luminous secret rooms that reflect one human’s heart in a world at the precipice. Staying creative is resistance. As authoritarians attack culture, they make the mistake of thinking imagination can be controlled when it actually emerges from the bottom up. Culture is not imaginary. It’s rooted in imagination, but it’s more real than what can be measured,” says Nieland.
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Charlie Nieland 1 – photo by Alice Teeple
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