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“A blistering, ultra‑danceable single (KISSBURN)” – Radio France "ICI Occitanie"
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Montreal trio Bye Parula share their atmospheric, velvety new single “Quand vient le soir,” the third from their new album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5 via Secret City Records. Performed entirely in French, the native language of singer and bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola, the track is enhanced by the vocal contribution of Adèle Trottier-Rivard of Bibi Club.
Produced by Calatayud-Sola himself, the music video features Robbie Kuster, who also produced the album. “Quand vient le soir” thus reveals itself as “a nostalgic love song,” says Calatayud-Sola. “It feels like a letter you’d write to someone you once loved but never send—the kind of message that only feels right for a couple of minutes at night, maybe after a drink or a high, just before sleep,” he explains further. "My native language is French, even though I never really listened to music in French. But when I moved to Quebec, I felt it was important to try singing in that language. — I listened to older French singers, but I never listened to contemporary pop in French. Then I discovered Karkwa; to me, it was kind of like Grizzly Bear in French. And I thought to myself: ‘Wow, it’s crazy that this exists! OK, I could listen to this.’ My perspective started to change—I heard Klô Pelgag and lots of other awesome projects that really inspired me. So for this song, I thought to myself, ‘OK, I think I have something that makes sense and works in French, and it would be great to have that kind of Air/Gainsbourg vibe.’”
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“Quand vient le soir” follows thematically-linked, dancefloor-ready additional album singles “KISSBURN” and “I Don’t Know”, and shows a different side to the rising band—Calatayud-Sola, guitarist Sebastián Riquelme, and drummer Sergio D'Isanto. Produced by Kuster and mixed by Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), Something Out Of Nothing features a team of collaborators, including Inuk singer/songwriter Elisapie, Bibi Club’s Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Morgan Moore and Karkwa keyboardist François Lafontaine.
Bye Parula is set to perform at multiple Canadian festivals this summer—including Northern Lights (Sudbury, ON), FEQ (Quebec City, QC), and Hillside (Guelph, ON). Bye Parula will also celebrate Something Out Of Nothing with a hometown album release show on June 11 at La Sala Rossa.
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Each weekday morning at around 10am, Bye Parula become 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 Robbie Kuster and mixed by Warren 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.
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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
06/02 - London, UK - The Lower Third (Upstairs) - tickets
06/03 - Paris, FR - Metaxu Pantin
06/04 - Berlin, DE - Rough Trade
06/11 - Montreal, QC - Sala Rossa (LP release Show)
07/10-12 - Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival
07/17 - Quebec City, QC - FEQ
07/18-19 - 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