(January 14, 2022). The Lumineers are proud to announce today’s release of their eagerly anticipated new album, BRIGHTSIDE, available now via Dualtone in the U.S. & Canada and Decca Records for the rest of the world.
“Hope is a risky thing,” says The Lumineers singer-guitarist and co-founder Wesley Schultz. “It doesn’t ignore the danger, but rather it believes in the face of danger. BRIGHTSIDE is an album that hopes, even against the sadness and staggering odds.”
(Toronto, ON – December 14, 2021) – Prolific Canadian troubadour Eamon McGrath will release a new full-length album, Bells of Hope, on February 25, 2022 via Saved By Vinyl. Pre-order Bells of Hope HERE, his most exploratory, reverential and optimistic LP to date. This year, McGrath performed over 70 shows across Canada. Tomorrow, he resumes his national tour with an additional 22 dates in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia up until his album release. In the spring, he will take Bells of Hope live across Europe. Full routing is available below.
(January 11, 2022 – 10:00am EST) — Acclaimed indie pop band Lucius returns with their highly-anticipated new album Second Nature, set to be released April 8 on Dine Alone (Canada), Mom + Pop Music (U.S. and Mexico), Second Nature Records/Secretly Distribution (RoW) [pre-order]. Produced by Dave Cobb and Brandi Carlile, the album features ten new songs, including the first single, “Next To Normal,” which is out today. Second Nature is now available for pre-order in a variety of formats including CDs, standard vinyl, and deluxe vinyl via the Dine Alone webstore HERE.
(December 1, 2021) – Montreal’s fierce rock quartet NOBRO unveils a new single titled “Julia” today via Dine Alone Records. “The song almost wrote itself,” vocalist and bassist Kathryn McCaughey explains. “The ‘Julia-ya ya’ hook had been in my head for a couple days and with the help of our producer Thom D’Arcy we put together enough of a demo to make the song make sense, but the real magic happened when we went to record it. We couldn’t decide on a speed at first because our normal ‘shred your face off’ pace was not the vibe, but then we decided it was OK to live life mid-tempo. And voilà, the song was born.”
“Julia” follows “Better Each Day” mixed by two-time Grammy Award winning engineer Dave Schiffman (Vampire Weekend, Adele). The anthemic track kicks off with the powerful set of vocals, “I spent my whole life running away…” before culminating into the pounding drums, shredding riffs and blistering vocals that NOBRO has become known for. The official video is directed and produced by Jeremy Shantz, Jenn Wade and Daniel Esteban, and shot in the band’s hometown of Montreal.
Acclaimed pianist and composer Kevin Hearn announces that he will release a new album on February 11, 2022 titled, There and Then: Solo Piano Improvisations. The album is a collaboration between Hearn and decorated producer and engineer Mark Howard whose credits include career-defining recordings by Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, and The Tragically Hip. Each day, Howard would inform Kevin where and when the piano would be ready, and then the album came to life.
Says Hearn, “This musical meditation, ‘L’ou’, is one of two pieces on the record that I vocalized on. I slowly repeated ‘ooh’ as I improvised on the piano. With haunting beauty, it sustained and floated in the natural reverb of the Cathedral I performed in. While assigning the song a title, I realized that “Ooh” sounded a lot like ‘Lou’ and it became a perfect opportunity to pay tribute to my friend and musical hero [Lou Reed] so I called the piece ‘L’ou’”