NEW ALBUM, HEAD FULL OF WONDER, OUT NOVEMBER 4, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
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Today, Jason Collett is sharing the new single "Everyday Sunflower", a song that reflects the essence of what the storied Toronto musician set out to do on his seventh album, Head Full Of Wonder – to hone his fine craft of songwriting. Here, Jason elegantly gives a sunswept bow to late summer, a languid folk-inflected ode to resilience through the extended shadows. "In absorbing the tumult of the times, there's a lot of shit to write through," Jason says. "I let go of some swagger and embraced intimacy and joy and wonder."
Inspired in part by Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘Sunflower Sutra’, “Everyday Sunflower” is “a simple reflection on everyday beauty and perhaps the best example of trying to say more with less on the record,” Jason says. “Short and sweet.”
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Head Full Of Wonder finds Collett stepping out of his usual creative orbit, recording in Toronto at All Day Coconut with Montreal producer Marcus Paquin, joined by drummer Liam O'Neill (SUUNS), guitarist Joe Grass, and bassist Mike O'Brien (Zeus). A distillation of the five years since 2016’s Song And Dance Man, these eleven new songs hone in on the fine craft of songwriting, offering a direct and simple collection of elegant indie folk, some of the most poignant creations of Collett's storied catalog.
"In absorbing the tumult of the times, there's a lot of shit to write through, (that Bruce Cockburn line comes to mind, ‘you've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight’) and the challenge is to get to the other side with something positive to contribute," Collett says. "I let go of some swagger and embraced intimacy and joy and wonder. I hear this in the record and it makes me very happy to have made it.”
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HEAD FULL OF WONDER TRACKLIST
1. Dark Times
2. Everyday Summer
3. Milk and Honey
4. Just Before the Rain
5. Hot Mess
6. Have Some Fun
7. Silver Dollar Moon
8. Right On Woman
9. Closer to the Truth
10. Come on Sun
11. Up the River
12. Sweet Water Sea
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