GEORDIE GORDON’S NEW ALBUM, RIVER ROUND, OUT MAY 1, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS
WATCH / SHARE “ALL THE FIRES” HERE
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PRE-ORDER RIVER ROUND VINYL HERE
PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN MAY 22
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On May 1 Geordie Gordon will release his third solo album River Round, a collection of love songs as intimate anthems of resilience. Friendship and romance stand off with life’s losses as Gordon weaves into his home-recorded folk music the irrepressible joys of pop—memorable verses and soulful, hard-hitting hooks—honed in his career as sideman and collaborator in acts including Islands, US Girls, Andy Shauf, and The Weather Station.
Today, he shares the video for the new single, “All The Fires”. The song comes from “my attempt to put myself in the shoes of someone who has just lost everything,” says Gordon. “I wrote the song in an emotional flurry after watching a Patti Smith performance. I was so inspired by the way she can plainly deliver a simple chord progression yet instill the most powerful meaning into every word. I aspired to craft a song devoid of flash or excess, purely a vessel for the grief and anxiety that I had been storing in the pit of my stomach.
“As I was recording the song, I was reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, a work of fiction following a young woman as she loses her whole community in Southern California due to intense climate and social upheaval. That same month three musical colleagues of mine had their homes burnt to the ground in the LA Wildfires, showing just how quickly science fiction can become a reality in our lives.”
WATCH / SHARE “ALL THE FIRES” HERE
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MORE ABOUT GEORDIE GORDON + RIVER ROUND
On River Round Gordon plays a small orchestra of instruments, including acoustic and electric six-string and tenor guitars, bass, mandolin, electric mandola, octave mandolin, fiddle, organ, Wurlitzer, Moog, and glockenspiel.
The title River Round cites the “round” as a form of singing in unison, a blending of voices, hinting at how this solo project is in fact a revival, a revelry of coming together. Even in the apocalyptic “All the Fires,” a song that looks frankly at the world, Gordon’s lyrics insist there’s a way through, and that way is by coming together: “I just need to see you safe by morning. Because there’s no morning without you.”
WATCH / SHARE “ENDLESS LINE” HERE
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On the album’s second track, “River House” Gordon brings back to life the old, crumbling rooms of a home he moved into at 18, where so many musicians would be roommates and gather to imagine and build the artist’s hometown punk and folk scene in Guelph, Ontario. That community mourns through “Richard’s Song,” an ode to the late musician and indomitable “front man” Richard Laviolette (1982–2023), whose Sunday band practices Gordon recalls with radical tenderness. He sings to Richard, ‘We can’t rehearse for what life brings / You know you can tell me anything,’ and the lines resound as a call to nurture, through song, friendship and queer life at every beginning, end, and transition. This nurturing might be what Gordon calls “the good hurt in the music.”
Geordie Gordon is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto and raised in Guelph, Ontario, where at the age of 13 he began playing in touring bands. For twenty years, he has toured with acts including Islands, US Girls, Andy Shauf, and The Weather Station. His solo project combines folk, soul, and pop in classic songs with lyrical verses and melodic, explosive hooks. His songs tell stories of coming of age, music community, and queer love. River Round is his third solo album on Victory Pool Records.
PERFORMANCE DATES
May 22nd - Guelph @ Silence w/ Bird City
May 27th - Toronto @ Burdock Music Hall w/ José Contreras
PRE-ORDER RIVER ROUND VINYL HERE
RIVER ROUND TRACKLIST
01 Held Me Up
02 River House
03 Richard’s Song
04 Endless Line
05 The Deal
06 On My Way
07 Ocean Of Time
08 All The Fires
09 Never Goes Away
10 Feel Our Way Through