Christin Nichols

On March 6, 2026, German-British artist Christin Nichols will release her new and third album. It is named after her, “Christin Nichols,” and is the essence of everything this woman is and always has been about. Christin Nichols will be going on tour with the new album in April 2026. The advance single “Cheerleader” – an anthem about self-love – is being released today.
 
The supposedly difficult third album is only considered difficult because it is often career-defining. In this respect, “Christin Nichols” is an ideal third album. Because the German-British artist Christin Nichols is closer to herself and her themes than ever before and has created some of the most rousing melodies of her career.
 
So let's explain the Nichols twist, which the Tagesspiegel once described as a “typical mixture of bitter truth and witty defiance.” On “Christin Nichols,” too, the basis of many songs seems to come directly from the deepest valleys. They repeatedly deal with self-doubt, a struggle with one's own existence, even with the whole world.
 
However, the conclusions the songwriter comes to on “Christin Nichols” are by no means gloomy or even hopeless. With playful ease, these songs find their way to bright heights, to hope, self-assertion, and love.
 
Typical of this emotional uplifting is the following key line from the second single, “Cheerleader”: “No life without me and no me without my life,” Christin Nichols sings here at first—and then rises to driving indie guitars and keyboard pads in a radiant chorus about her pain, thus becoming a “cheerleader” herself.
 
ROLLING STONE had already described the first new single, “Unsterblich” (Immortal), as a “powerful empowerment anthem.” Everything on this album also comes together in the powerful “Keine Kontrolle” (No Control), the furious “Spotlight,” and the glamorously weightless “Chelsea Boots.” With this trance-like, floating laconicism that is as typical of Christin Nichols' indie rock as the wonderfully wired guitars that push staccato-like and are highly melodic at the same time.
 
Since fall 2024, Christin Nichols has been working on new songs with her creative partner Stefan Ernst (Isolation Berlin) and finally produced the new album. But Nichols is actually always working on songs: “Every single day, I have a deep emotional need to connect with myself and my environment,” she says.
 
She will be doing just that again in April 2026 on numerous stages when she embarks on a major tour for her new album, “Heute ist mal wirklich alles gut” (Today, everything is really good), with her band.
 
With “Christin Nichols,” Nichols has condensed her artistry and finally found herself as a songwriter, singer, and musician. “This album is exactly who I am at this point in my life,” she says.
 
“Christin Nichols” is Christin Nichols' third solo album after “I'm Fine” (2022) and “Rette sich, wer kann” (2024). Raised in Mallorca, Nichols studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and has had engagements at the Berliner Ensemble, Renaissance Theater, and Volksbühne Berlin, among others. Christin Nichols is a strong advocate for feminism, has appeared as an actress in numerous feature films and TV series, and has performed as a musician with her band at festivals such as Rock am Ring, Immergut, Pop-Kultur, Reeperbahn Festival, and many more. Nichols lives and works in Berlin.