LISTEN / SHARE “IF I WANTED TO” HERE
DOUG PAISLEY’S NEW LP, SAY WHAT YOU LIKE, PRODUCED BY AFIE JURVANEN,
OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC
BUY / STREAM SAY WHAT YOU LIKE HERE
CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MAY 10, ON SALE NOW
“an unflinchingly and unapologetically self-reflective journey of the heart, plumbing the depths of love, career and middle age.” Exclaim!
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Available everywhere today, Say What You Like is Doug 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 has long been signed to U.S.-based labels.
Produced by Afie Jurvanen, Say What You Like was culled from 250 unrecorded songs spanning a decade of unregulated creativity, like 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 Jurvanen 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.
Paisley and Jurvanen recently sat down with Exclaim! to share some more insight on their friendship, musical chemistry, and the album itself which you can read HERE.
Today, Paisley is also sharing the album track, “If I Wanted To”, a song he says he wrote “in about 10 minutes 15 years ago. It wasn’t about anything I was feeling or anyone I knew. I remember that every line and every part led to the next one so easily and I never had to change or add anything after that.”
Paisley will bring Say What You Like to the stage beginning May 10. All dates are listed below and tickets are on sale now HERE.
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MORE 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 ageles…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.
WATCH / SHARE “SOMETIMES IT’S SO EASY” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “SAY WHAT YOU LIKE” HERE
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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
DOUG PAISLEY LIVE PERFORMANCES
May 10 - Kingston, ON - The Grad Club
May 11 - Montreal, QC - Petit Campus
May 12 - Ottawa, ON - Redbird Live
May 13 - Toronto, ON - TD Music Hall | Massey Hall