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ABIGAIL LAPELL’S NEW LP, ANNIVERSARY, OUT MAY 10 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC
PRE-SAVE ANNIVERSARY HERE
EMBARKING ON EAST COAST US TOUR THIS SPRING - CANADIAN TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK
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"(‘Stolen Time’) A disc of pure, impalpable beauty, weightless notes and melodies that pierce our hearts.... And the young woman, prey to a vagueness in the soul that she sublimates in a handful of magical songs, to offer us a twilight album, somewhere between Gillian Welch and Laura Veirs." - Rolling Stone
“[Lapell’s] beautiful fourth album ‘Stolen Time’ is a moving collection of songs inspired by nature, the seasons, and her family’s experience as refugees fleeing eastern Europe during the Holocaust.” - The Guardian
“(‘Stolen Time’) The album’s apparent simplicities belie an emotionally complex set, a sequence that addresses an assortment of difficult subjects, energized throughout by Lapell’s sober yet deeply expressive voice.” - No Depression
“Lapell’s masterful skills on finger-style guitar, harmonica, piano once again return to effortlessly complement her eerily beautiful vocals.” - KUTX (NPR)
"The standout track 'Rattlesnake' begins with a slowly ramping up guitar that is sparse and haunting yet upbeat. Lapell lays down vocals that feel rooted and soulful with an element of blues running through her unique style of folk-noir." - Glide Magazine
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Today, Toronto singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell unveiled her new single “Count on Me”, a spellbinding duet with the acclaimed indie-folk band Great Lake Swimmers. It’s the latest track from her upcoming album Anniversary, out May 10 via Outside Music.
A love song for both weddings and funerals, “Count on Me” explores the passage of time – celebrating the rhythms of a shared life and coming to terms with its brevity. Through the track, melodic strums breeze across enchanting harmonies offered by Lapell and Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers as lyrics promise an earnest vow to a loved one. “I started writing ‘Count on Me’ for my sister’s wedding and finished it in time for her first anniversary,” Abigail says. “It’s a song for me that evokes marriages or funerals or other life ceremonies.” The scrapbook style video, directed by Krpie, brings the romantic track to life through an array of collage, animations, and rotoscoping, piecing together images of lovers throughout different eras of time.
Abigail Lapell will be embarking on a North American tour this spring, making stops across Canada with more dates to be announced. Tickets for all shows are available here.
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MORE ABOUT ANNIVERSARY
On her upcoming album Anniversary, Abigail Lapell interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together. “Anniversary” means literally “returning yearly,” and the album’s 11 songs track the revolving days, seasons, and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love.
Throughout the project, Lapell drew inspiration from a series of personal milestones, including turning 40, along with the fifteenth anniversary of her father’s death – and, more recently, several weddings and births in her family. She offers a 40-something vision of love, haunted by the ghosts of departed loved ones, past relationships or even the spectre of faded youth. An evocative collection of original love songs, the album balances upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, ultimately emerging as an earnest celebration of commitment.
Anniversary was fittingly recorded in the historic 200-year-old St. Mark’s Church adjoining a cemetery, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, complimenting the project’s resonant and hauntingly intimate theme. Lapell tapped Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers) to co-produce the album, who helped shape the project’s spooky, resonant sound while lending his voice to a few mesmerizing duets. The two assembled a stellar cast of musicians to round out Lapell’s vocals, piano, harmonica and fingerstyle electric guitar. The ensemble’s sensitive, orchestral country-jazz arrangements reveal the depth of Lapell’s musical palette – making use of the church’s in-house piano, harpsichord and several antique organs.
Across the album, Lapell’s deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love’s finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. “I wanted to explore some of the contradictions within the pop culture notion of love,” Lapell says. “These dichotomies of light and dark, love and loss, fleeting and eternal – even in the traditional wedding vows, ‘sickness and health, richer or poorer.’” Ultimately, while deconstructing the myths of romantic love, Anniversary emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment – acknowledging its tragedy and hope, and its power to haunt and console at the same time.
Anniversary comes on the heels of Abigail Lapell’s critically acclaimed 2022 album Stolen Time, and her project Lullabies. Over the course of her musical journey, Lapell has garnered three Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 40 million+ streams on Spotify alone. She tours widely across Canada and the US.
TOUR DATES
04/10/24 Penticton BC Dream Cafe
04/11/24 Nakusp BC Bonnington Arts Centre
04/12/24 Vernon BC Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
04/13/24 Vancouver BC Blueshore
04/14/24 Rossland BC Flying Steam shovel
04/16/24 Calgary AB Ironwood
04/17/24 Edmonton AB The Aviary
04/18/24 Regina SK Artesian
04/19/24 Saskatoon SK The Bassment
04/21/24 Winnipeg MB West End Cultural Centre
05/12/24 Hamilton ON Mills Hardware
05/17/24 Ottawa ON RedBird
05/18/24 Napanee ON Doghouse Studios
05/22/24 Toronto ON TD Music Hall
05/25/24 Greenbank ON Greenbank Folk
05/29/24 Montreal QC Casa del popolo
05/30/24 Saratoga Springs NY Caffe Lena
05/31/24 Northampton MA Parlor Room
06/01/24 Cambridge MA Club Passim
06/02/24 Exeter NH The Wordbarn
06/04/24 Portland ME Oxbow
06/05/24 New Haven CT Cafe Nine
06/06/24 Brooklyn NY Cafe Wha?
06/07/24 Monkton MD Loft at Manner Mill
06/10/24 Pittsburgh PA Club Cafe
06/11/24 Oakland MD Backbone Farm
06/13/24 Chicago IL Schubas
06/14/24 Milwaukee WI Cactus Club
06/15/24 Ann Arbor MI The Ark
06/19/24 Crapaud PEI Festival of Small Halls
06/20/24 Saint Peters Bay PEI Festival of Small Halls
06/22/24 Newport Landing NS Full Circle Festival
07/19/24 Dawson City YT Dawson City Music Festival
07/20/24 Dawson City YT Dawson City Music Festival
07/21/24 Dawson City YT Dawson City Music Festival
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ANNIVERSARY TRACKLIST:
1. Anniversary Song
2. Footsteps
3. Count On Me (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
4. Rattlesnake
5. Blue Blaze
6. Someone Like You
7. 3am
8. Flowers In My Hair (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
9. Blue Electric Skies
10. Wait Up
11. Stars (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
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