Draw Breath

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{{Infobox album

| name = Draw Breath

| type = Album

| artist = The Nels Cline Singers

| cover = Draw Breath.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 26, 2007

| recorded = January 7–February 24, 2007

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| studio =

| genre = West Coast Jazz, jazz-rock, avant-garde

| length = 73:30

| label = Cryptogramophone

| producer = The Nels Cline Singers

| prev_title = The Giant Pin

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = The Celestial Septet

| next_year = 2008

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1074450|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=261}}

}}

Draw Breath is the third album released by The Nels Cline Singers in 2007. It featured both abrasive musical textures and gentler compositions such as "Caved-In Heart Blues" and "The Angel of Angels," the latter of which The New York Times called one of the prettiest works of Nels Cline's career.

The New York Times, June 24, 2007.