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DOUG PAISLEY’S NEW LP, SAY WHAT YOU LIKE, PRODUCED BY AFIE JURVANEN, SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 17, 2023 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC
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“Produced by Bahamas' Afie Jurvanen, Say What You Like's 11 songs were distilled from more than 250 unrecorded tracks written by Paisley over the last decade. Folding folk, country and pop sensibilities into Paisley's sterling writing, it's another showcase of the songwriter's carefully wrought universe.” EXCLAIM! (Most Anticipated Canadian Albums ‘23)
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Doug Paisley’s new song, “Rewrite History”, all started with a century-old guitar. “I do believe certain songs can only be found in certain instruments,” says Paisley. You see, he wrote this song on a friend’s 100-year-old guitar, and in listening to the woody, softly-strummed chords underneath Paisley’s sweetly-sung verses, it’s not too difficult for one to buy into his theory.
“Rewrite History” is one of eleven new songs from Paisley’s upcoming album, Say What You Like, out March 17th via Outside Music. Producer Afie Jurvanen brought in a wealth of new grooves, vibes, and tones for the whole of Say What You Like, but on “Rewrite History” in particular, his BAHAMAS bandmate and Toronto-based recording artist Felicity Williams brings Paisley’s musical fate full circle. “When I heard Felicity sing on the recording, I thought the idea and the story and the song might just have been made for her to sing her part,” he says. Williams’s soft layers of vocals do, in fact, meld with the song in a way that could be scientific proof of musical predestination.
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Say What You Like is Paisley’s first release since 2018’s Starter Home which landed on The New Yorker’s Ten Best Albums of the Year and a step in a brand new direction as the first release with Paisley’s new record label Outside Music, a welcoming, Canada-based home for a Canadian artist who’s long been signed to U.S.-based labels.
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Culled from 250 unrecorded songs spanning a decade of unregulated creativity, the Canadian songwriter’s Say What You Like is a snapshot of an artist functioning at his best and highest level—honest, exposed, searching, and yet comforting in his ability to communicate the universal in the struggles of the individual. And, with the help of Jervanen it manages to be groovy too. One gets the sense from these songs that Paisley simply must write. “As a songwriter these days,” he reflected earlier this year, “there’s very little to gain and very little to lose so I am working only from the heart, there’s no other motive.” And on Say What You Like, it shows.
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About Doug Paisley: Since the release of his self-titled debut fifteen years ago, Doug Paisley has earned accolades for unflinchingly self-reflective songs delivered with simplicity and beauty. Though Paisley has always collaborated with topnotch Canadian musicians including luminaries like Garth Hudson, Leslie Feist, and Mary Margaret O’Hara, his records have drawn poignancy also from moments where the listener hears Paisley as he most often hears himself: unadorned and alone with his guitar. The critical response to Paisley’s sophomore release, Constant Companion, underlined this quality. MOJO, naming the album one of the top ten of 2010, found in its “rare kind of purity” evidence that “an anti-star is born.” While Rolling Stone deemed it to be a “nearly perfect singer-songwriter record,” UNCUT described it as “sure-footed and ageless…uncluttered, sad and unerringly lovely.” The “quiet and contemplative” nature of Paisley’s last record, Starter Home, continued this trend, earning it a place in The New Yorker’s top ten albums of 2018.
SAY WHAT YOU LIKE TRACKLIST
01 Say What You Like
02 Sometimes It’s So Easy
03 Wide Open Plain
04 Rewrite History
05 Almost
06 If I Wanted To
07 I Wanted It Too Much
08 Make It A Double
09 You Turn My Life Around
10 Holy Roller
11 Old Hometown