BYE PARULA’S NEW ALBUM, SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, OUT JUNE 5, 2026 VIA SECRET CITY RECORDS
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ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW JUNE 11 AT SALA ROSSA IN MONTREAL
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SUPPORTING SAID THE WHALE IN TORONTO APRIL 18
AT LEE’S PALACE
SUMMER FESTIVAL DATES NOW ANNOUNCED
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Montreal trio Bye Parula share their sparkling, dancefloor-ready new single “I don’t know”, the second from their new album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5 via Secret City Records. The song is thematically linked to lead single “KISSBURN”, another undeniable earworm that’s seen over 300,000 plays on Spotify (and over 1 millions views on TikTok) in only four weeks. About the pair, singer/bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola shares: “These were written in the same period, at the beginning of the process, and they go together. ‘KISSBURN’ is told from the point of view of someone pursuing someone they’re obsessed with. They’re confident—maybe sexy, maybe ridiculous, maybe both. ‘I don’t know’ is from the other person’s point of view. They find the attention a little ridiculous—but they’re just as obsessed in return.”
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Produced by Robbie Kuster (Patrick Watson) and mixed by Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), Something Out Of Nothing features a team of collaborators alongside Loïc Calatayud-Sola, guitarist Sebastián Riquelme, and drummer Sergio D'Isanto - including Inuk singer/songwriter Elisapie, Bibi Club’s Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Morgan Moore and Karkwa keyboardist François Lafontaine.
Bye Parula are confirmed for multiple Canadian festivals this summer, including Northern Lights Festival (Sudbury, ON), Festival d'été de Québec (Quebec City, QC), and Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON). The band will perform next at a sold-out show on April 18 in Toronto at Lee’s Palace, opening for Said the Whale, and will celebrate Something Out Of Nothing with a hometown album release show on June 11 in Montreal at La Sala Rossa. Tickets are on sale here.
Each weekday morning at around 10am, Bye Parula became the most popular band in Canada—if only for about 20 seconds. That’s when their 2023 single, “Still Got the Spirit”, is broadcast across the country on CBC Radio One as the opening theme to the network’s flagship arts-and-culture talk show, Q with Tom Power. The song’s smooth, supple groove and jabbing disco strings made it an outlier amid the ornate prog-pop vignettes that otherwise filled up their DIY 2023 debut album, I (also produced by Kuster and mixed by Spicer), and the placement not only exposed these Montreal indie-scene newcomers to a wider national audience, it also catalyzed them to innovate and expand their sound. Where their earliest recordings captured a group of newly acquainted players still getting to know each other through musical communication, Something Out of Nothing is a testament to their deepening friendships and increasingly intuitive interplay. The result is Something Out Of Nothing: a mercurial mix that draws from the orchestral groove of Serge Gainsbourg, the wounded melodies of Elliott Smith, the cosmopolitan rhythms of the Talking Heads, and the artisanal R&B of Dijon, all imbued with a 1970s cinematic sensibility that blurs the line between sunny, fuzzy fantasy and urbane sophistication.
While most bands form out of friendships, in this case, the friendships in Bye Parula formed through the band. When the members first met at the dawn of the decade, the only thing they really had in common was the fact that they were all strangers in a strange town: Loïc Calatayud-Sola was a recent arrival from southern France; Sebastián Riquelme hailed from Chile; and Sergio D'Isanto had immigrated from Italy. During the first wave of lockdowns, the band essentially existed as a demo file-swap exercise, but once restrictions were lifted to allow for a rehearsal retreat to a studio near Trois-Rivières, a common language was quickly forged among the trio. From there, Bye Parula cultivated an ornate art-pop aesthetic that followed in the footsteps of Montreal eccentrics like Watson or Plants and Animals, and it wasn’t long before those inspirations became peers in Kuster and Spicer, who helped this trio of immigrants find their footing in the local scene in addition to working on I.
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The album’s pleasure-seeking sounds can’t obscure the distress lurking under the surface—this is a record that massages your shoulders musically while punching you in the gut lyrically. “English is not my first language, so on our first record, I was shy, and I was trying to over-complicate stuff, to feel intelligent in a way,” Calatayud says. “And Robbie encouraged me to be simpler and just go for the emotion. I think it helped me a lot: to know that I can just write simple lyrics that are really honest.” Naturally, Something Out of Nothing’s most dramatic moments are also the most nakedly personal: on “Orange Blossom” (featuring guest vocals from Adèle Trottier-Rivard), Loïc Calatayud-Sola pays tribute to his great-grandmother, who lived to 101 and whose spirit of perseverance continues to guide him through his own darkest hours—like the one chronicled on “Burning Down the House”, a visceral and heartbreaking post-breakup elegy. Meanwhile, the eerie-meets-Future Islands atmosphere atmosphere of “Home” draws us into the moment where Calatayud’s soul-crushing morning commute to his day job—a total of 1.5 hours on the Metro combined with an hour of walking, to be exact—led to a full-blown existential crisis, as a creeping homesickness had him questioning whether he wanted to stay in Canada.
Something Out of Nothing is divided into two parts for the listener’s experience: ‘Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position’ and ‘Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position.’ Two atmospheres that seem diametrically opposed yet are ultimately and intimately connected. Whether racing through the night or settling into dawn’s light, each track is woven from the same thread: love made alive by care. In this way, the album unfolds as a complete story. Its standing-position songs celebrate how love moves us, while its sitting-position songs reveal how love holds us. Together, they remind us of the necessity of both movement and stillness, of brightness and depth embracing the joy that lifts us and the pain that grounds us. Urging us to dance. Urging us to pause.
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BYE PARULA LIVE
April 18 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace (w/Said the Whale) – SOLD OUT
June 2 – London, UK – The Lower Third (Upstairs)
June 11 – Montreal, QC – Sala Rossa (LP release show)
July 10-12 - Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival
July 17 - Quebec City, QC - Festival d'été de Québec\
July 18 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival
SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING TRACKLIST
Side A - Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position
01 I don’t know
02 KISSBURN
03 I’m getting ready
04 Something Out Of Nothing
05 Home
Side B - Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position
06 Orange Blossom (There’s a million reasons)
07 Miedo de olvidar (featuring Elisapie)
08 Quand vient le soir
09 Needed
10 Burning down the house