ANNOUNCES DEBUT EP TOWARDS THE END
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Today, Katie Tupper shares her sophomore single, “How Can I Get Your Love?” and announces her debut EP Towards The End out early 2022 and available for pre-order HERE. Following up a debut as poised as “Live Inside” was no easy feat, but Tupper’s latest feels as if it reaches even deeper into the seemingly endless acres of her hometown, Saskatoon. Hailing from the heartland of Canada, Tupper deals in a blanketing mixture of Neo-soul and exquisite folk, seeming to speak for a region neglected all too often, displaying just how richly her music roots through the native meadows and grasslands (or as she refers to them here, “fields of butter”).
‘All my friends could have been lovers, if they’d asked nicely,’ Tupper ornately laments over a delicate, immediately intimate acoustic backdrop which gradually swells into a placid mixture of hushed percussion, keys, and strings.
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“How Can I Get Your Love?” is a song that at once speaks of all the possible partners we miss out on from sheer cluelessness, and ultimately centers around a single, great passion. Not even the luckiest alive have avoided losing someone who felt like they should have been the someone, and Tupper expertly and devastatingly digs right into wounds that never truly heal. “I know you got another lover, but being honest, that don’t matter,” Tupper sings, speaking for anyone and everyone who’s ever been so desperate to regain what they’ve lost that the potential damage along the way hardly matters. She’s in pure awe of such a stunning blow, and “How Can I Get Your Love?” lands one just as striking.
“It’s about coming back to your hometown and wanting things to be exactly as you left them, and the desperation for those memories once you realise that is not true,” Katie reveals about the song. “I wrote about moments in previous relationships where you fully lay yourself out on the line, almost to a desperate extent because you feel you need to. It feels like vulnerability and bravery in confessing an old love but it really is more of seeking comfort in the familiar and begging those around you to create that for you.”
The video for the track, directed by Mashie Alam, is one of sheer release, with Tupper and two others serenely expressing themselves through dance, standing in intriguing contrast to the song’s somewhat tortured words, it seems to tell of the moment after the tale expressed within the song: reveling in the freedom that comes from entirely offloading one’s most deeply concealed emotions.
“It’s an ode to my upbringing in Saskatchewan,” Katie shares about the clip. “For the song that is yearning for hometown normalcy I wanted the video to show exactly what summers looked like for me and what my nostalgia looks like.”
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“Live Inside” and “How Can I Get Your Love?” serve as just a taste of what’s to come, as Tupper prepares her debut EP, Towards The End, for an early 2022 release via Arts & Crafts.
Having begun to tinker with her own songwriting via piano lessons at a particularly young age, she found herself touring the U.S. playing bass drum with a marching band at the age of just 14. By the time she was 18, she had properly entered the local Saskatoon art community, joining a loose collection of musicians, all in preparation of gradually striking out on her own. Stay tuned for more from Towards The End.
