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MIKE EDEL’S NEW LP, EN MASSE, OUT NOVEMBER 20, 2020 VIA PENNANT
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“Giving Up On Giving In” is the intimate soundtrack of 2020. 'Another day, another morning...' catalogues a constant blur of unforgiving repetition. The only thing Mike Edel is giving up on however - is giving in. A collaboration with Cumulus, the song is the latest single from En Masse which is out November 20 via Pennant.
“Alex and I met through Chris Walla who released two Cumulus records on Trans, and who produced my last record,” says Edel. “We wrote 'Giving Up On Giving In' about our individual and collective mistakes the day after every Christmas party of 2019. We wrote about the resolve to push past the mental thresholds of waking up in the morning and making music and doing this thing. The song has also gotten a lot more relevant to me through the pandemic.”
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Mixed by Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire, The National) with additional production by Andy Park (Noah Gundersen, The Head And The Heart), En Masse is an item quest about discovery. The collective instincts, intuition and melody of a cast of collaborators. “The writing, recording and production were guided by the collective instincts, intuition and melody of a cast of collaborators,” says Edel. “With this project I wanted to bring in outside ideas and methods to help me formulate a new energy and because of this, En Masse has expanded my artistic capacities.”
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The new LP follows up Edel’s Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) produced 2019 record, THRESHOLDS. After THRESHOLDS, 4 million cumulative streams across major platforms, landing a song on ABC’s American Idol, in heavy rotation on CBC Music, AAA Radio across the United States, and on Sirius XM’s The Verge and North Americana; after playing hundreds of shows across North American and Europe including Rifflandia Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Regina Folk Festival, Victoria International Jazz Festival, and Upstream Music Festival; after sharing the stage with Serena Ryder, Foy Vance, Said The Whale and Josh Garrels; and after moving to Seattle, WA and getting married, Edel has established himself as a creative tour de force with plenty on the horizon.
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EN MASSE TRACKLIST
01 Hello Universe
02 Good About Everything
03 Sunshine
04 Lose You
05 Giving Up On Giving In
06 Still Thinking About You
07 Need You
08 Hockey Guy
09 Balcony
10 The Distance