TORONTO SINGER-SONGWRITER EMMA WORLEY RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE, “BUDDY”

EMMA WORLEY SHARES FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE SENTIMENTALIST,
“BUDDY” OUT TODAY VIA ACRONYM RECORDS

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Toronto singer-songwriter Emma Worley blends alternative folk and americana with lyrics that tuck grief, humour and introspection into the same fold. Following the release of her debut album, Sentimentalist (2022), Worley began touring and showcasing in North America. However, her career took a sudden pause as she dealt with a health diagnosis.

During this period, Worley turned inward and began to write. Today, she gives us a glimpse into her process with the new single, “Buddy”. “This song is about the vertigo-inducing experience of running into an ex and being introduced as their friend,” explains Worley. “It’s that gut punch of feeling the life you built together erased in real time. 

“Specifically, this song was written while driving home from the Danforth in Toronto after seeing my (very recent) ex play a show. I went into that night braced for big feelings, but wasn’t prepared for the emotional free fall of being introduced to their tour manager as their best friend. In retrospect, I think that was actually a very sweet thing to say!”

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MORE ABOUT EMMA WORLEY
Hailing from Guelph, Ontario, and now residing in Toronto, Worley spent many years dedicated to a career as an emerging visual artist. Upon graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Worley garnered attention for her sculpture/installation work through exhibitions, installations, and residencies at various high-profile institutions. However, despite her burgeoning success in the visual-arts world, Worley found herself compulsively drawn towards creating the material that would become her debut album, Sentimentalist. Pulling from lived experience, triumph, heartbreak, and everything in between, the wisdom and grace of this collection is telling of Worley's dedication to relatable storytelling and emotional finesse.

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GHOSTKEEPER RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “MOHKINSTSIS”

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PAST PRAISE FOR GHOSTKEEPER

“a re-conjuring of joy that mingles with wounds past and present, thrusting them to the forefront of a musical partnership that spans decades, land, time and space. … amongst the tapestry woven by Cîpayak Joy's multilayered extension of contemporary electronica, Ghostkeeper's past, present and future dance hand in hand.” Exclaim!

“The pop experimentalists return to their roots while pushing their creativity forward on new album, Cîpayak Joy.” RANGE Magazine

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“Mohkinstsis” is the brand new single from Calgary Métis pop experimentalists Ghostkeeper. It's the first missive since their last album, the critically-acclaimed Cîpayak Joy. Centred around the core duo of founding members Shane Ghostkeeper and Sarah Houle, “Mohkinstsis” gets the rest of the band – drummer Eric Hamelin (JOYFULTALK) and bassist Ryan Bourne (solo, Chad Van Gaalen) – back in the room together, and the results are stellar.

The band's playing provides a robust framework for Shane's storytelling, expertly nuanced but never drawing attention to itself. Subtle sonic colourings in the margins add a sense of tension and release for the song's key moments, and it all rides out in a dreamy, quasi-doo wop reverie, Hamelin's tumbling drums tussling with a more developed version of the opening guitar lick. The mix, by longtime Ghostkeeper associate and JOYFULTALK mastermind Jay Crocker, is roomy and spacious mix, allowing the song room to breathe, and revel in the dramatic sonic vistas that emerge from simmering, in-the-pocket rhythm section-led sections.

The song itself is both a nostalgia-laden origin story of Ghostkeeper and Houle's romantic beginnings, and also an offering of sincere thanks to the various communities that welcomed them so warmly upon their initial move to Calgary years ago. Chief among these communities were the Blackfoot people, Shane recalls. “They were so welcoming, so nourishing and supportive when we first got here”, he says. “Not long after moving here, I was gifted an eagle feather as a welcoming token, and it hangs from the headstock of my guitar to this day.”

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Before living together, Shane would – literally – run from his house north of the Bow river (‘vintage kicks look sweet on concrete’ he sings) to meet Sarah after work, stopping only for a short breather on the picturesque Crescent Heights ridge, which overlooks the river and downtown Calgary. While bracing himself for the rest of his journey, he'd find himself gazing down at the confluence where the Bow meets the Elbow river, imagining what it would have been like in its days as a Blackfoot nation encampment.

Thanks to his participation in filmmaker Trevor Solway's Amplify, an acclaimed docu-series focused on Indigenous singer-songwriters, Shane was able to meet and talk with various Blackfoot elders as part of the project. It was in these meetings he learned that, historically, the Blackfoot people were well known for welcoming people of other nations to meet at the confluence to prepare for their journeys west to the holy waters of the Banff hot springs, and Ghostkeeper couldn't help but see a parallel with his own feelings of welcome in the community. He began to regard the confluence as “two rivers that meet like lovers forged in destiny” a perfect metaphor for these early romantic years with Houle.

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HIS HIS SHARES FIRST NEW SINGLE OF THE YEAR, “CALLS ME MINE”

HALIFAX BASED SONGWRITER HIS HIS SHARES “CALLS ME MINE”,
OUT VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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His His is the recording project of Halifax-based artist Aidan Belo, blending lo-fi folk and slacker rock into a sound that feels raw, intimate, and refined. Built on analog textures and understated performances, His His leans into restraint and clarity, delivering songs that are reflective, measured, and detail-oriented.

Today, Belo shares his first new music since last year’s ‘25 EP. “Calls Me Mine” was written “after I moved from Toronto to Halifax, leaving the city I’d lived in my entire life,” he explains. “Although no longer religious, I grew up in a very Catholic household, and that language and imagery still shape the way I write. The song uses those references to explore what we carry with us from our upbringing, even after we’ve moved on from the beliefs themselves.

“The song is about that in-between space: moving forward while still feeling shaped by where you came from. It leans on religious imagery alongside everyday details to reflect how those older frameworks don’t just disappear — they get recontextualized. There’s humour in it too, but it sits beside a kind of quiet uncertainty about identity, place, and relationships.”

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Recorded entirely to tape and cassette, “Calls Me Mine” blends indie folk and slacker rock with a warm, slightly worn-in sound. “The analogue process felt important to how the song holds together — nothing too polished, more like a document of a moment rather than a finished statement,” Belo continues. “At its core, it’s about being seen and known by someone while everything else shifts around you, and the small reassurance in hearing someone call you ‘mine’.”

Since debuting in late 2020, the project has quietly built a growing audience, amassing over 2 million streams across streaming, with support from Spotify editorial playlists, SiriusXM, CBC, and tastemaker press. Rooted in a cassette-forward, analog approach, His His emphasizes warmth, tape saturation, and subtle imperfections, resulting in a sound that is immediate, cohesive, and sonically distinct.

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