WATCH AND SHARE “SILVER CIVIC” HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH TIM BAKER BEGIN APRIL 19
NEW LP, THE SHAPE OF YOUR NAME, DUE APRIL 5 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS, THE NEW LABEL FROM OUTSIDE MUSIC
“After one run through of Charlotte Cornfield’s new single “Silver Civic”, I’m thinking back on past memories of every relationship I’ve been in. After two listens, I’m in tears.” - EARMILK
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In a few short weeks, Charlotte Cornfield will release her newest LP, The Shape Of Your Name, via Outside Music’s new imprint Next Door Records. Today, the celebrated songwriter is sharing the new video for the album’s third single “Silver Civic”, a song she performed earlier live on CBC’s q. Earmilk says of the song, “After one run through...I’m thinking back on past memories of every relationship I’ve been in. After two listens, I’m in tears.”
On “Silver Civic”, Charlotte notes: “this is something I think we have all experienced at some point, that association of an inanimate object with somebody or something, that wave of emotion it brings. And cars, they’re just everywhere. Right after I wrote this song I recorded what I thought was going to be a demo version of this song with my friend Matthew Bailey. And then I tried recording it a bunch more times with different arrangements but that first recording just has the emotion and the rawness. Leif Vollebekk added a piano part and then it just felt finished.”
The video, directed by Charlotte’s brother Joe Cornfield, was shot on Wicklow Beach in Southern Ontario. “I wanted the video to be simple and minimal, to really put the focus on the song,” she says.
WATCH AND SHARE “SILVER CIVIC” HERE
Beginning on April 19, Cornfield will embark on a run on North American tour dates supporting Tim Baker (Hey Rosetta!). Full tour dates can be found below.
The Shape Of Your Name has a more refined studio sound than her scrappier 2016 release Future Snowbird, and for good reason: it was recorded in 5 different sessions over the course of 3 years. The songs are her strongest and most striking to date - contemplative and contemporary, funny and heart-wrenching - and they’ve got that stuck-in-your-head-for-days quality that Cornfield is known for. The Shape Of Your Name features a star-studded cast of collaborators including (but not limited to) Grammy-winning engineer Shawn Everett, Broken Social Scene members Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, and Charles Spearin, and Montreal songwriter Leif Vollebekk.
“My initial intention wasn’t to make a record at all,” Charlotte muses. “The whole thing kind of happened by accident. I went to The Banff Centre to do a residency and came out with these recordings that I knew I wanted to use for something but wasn’t sure what.” She brought the unfinished songs to her former roommate Nigel Ward in Montreal. “He fell into the producer role seamlessly. We took it slow and just tried things for a while until the vision settled in. There was no rush. It was freeing, and it gave the songs a lot of breathing room to develop.”
WATCH AND SHARE “ANDREW” OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE
LISTEN AND SHARE “STORM CLOUDS” HERE
For the past four years Cornfield has been booking and managing Burdock Music Hall, a small venue in the west end of Toronto. The job has offered her stability and a strong sense of place in Toronto’s bursting-at-the-gills music community. She’s also an in-demand drummer and side musician, and has worked closely with Tim Darcy of Ought, Molly Burch, Adrian Underhill, and members of Lake Street Dive. She has toured extensively in North America and Europe and has supported a huge range of artists including Broken Social Scene, Anais Mitchell, Daniel Romano, and Sam Amidon.
PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD
“Her songwriting is ravenous …work in the tradition of Dylan or
Townes Van Zandt” - The Globe And Mail
“ever-sharpening songwriter’s mill smartly constructed and executed …
2016’s first highlight” - Toronto Star
“Cornfield has proven her prowess in songwriting, making incredibly personal songs ring universal with listeners, creating a small but very inclusive world that one simply must submerge themselves in immediately” - CBC Music
“great performances…endearingly clever …landing in delightfully unexpected places” - Exclaim!
“a collection of vibrant, no-nonsense folk songs” - NOW Magazine
“a charming and breezy rung in the ladder to her inevitable fame and fortune” - BeatRoute
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD TOUR DATES
Apr 19 - St. John’s, NL - Holy Heart Theatre ^
Apr 20 - St. John’s, NL - Holy Heart Theatre ^
Apr 23 - Toronto, ON - The Great Hall ^
Apr 24 - Toronto, ON - The Great Hall ^
Apr 25 - Toronto, ON - The Great Hall ^
Apr 26 - Ottawa, ON - Bronson Centre ^
Apr 29 - Fredericton, NB - Wilmot United Church ^
Apr 30 - Moncton, NB - Tide & Boar Ballroom ^
May 3 - Halifax, NS - St. Matthews United Church ^
May 4 - Halifax, NS - St. Matthews United Church ^
May 7 - Montreal, QC - Le Ministere ^
May 29 - Edmonton, AB - Station On Jasper ^
May 30 - Calgary, AB - Commonwealth Bar ^
Jun 1 - Vancouver, BC - Imperial ^
Jun 3 - Seattle, WA - Columbia City Theater ^
Jun 4 - Portland, OR - The Old Church ^
Jun 7 - Los Angeles, CA - The Hotel Cafe ^
Jun 9 - San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah ^
^ with Tim Baker
THE SHAPE OF YOUR NAME TRACKLIST
01 June
02 Storm Clouds
03 Balladeer
04 Andrew
05 Silver Civic
06 Wheels
07 Up The Hill
08 Peonies
09 Release
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Next Door Records is the newest label from Outside Music Inc. The new imprint will join Outside Music's artist management, publishing, and long-standing distribution divisions alongside their eponymous label.