TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL, THE ‘SUPERGROUP’ OF HALEY BLAIS AND SAM LYNCH, ANNOUNCE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, ANGEL SO BAD, OUT AUGUST 28, 2026 VIA BIRTHDAY CAKE RECORDS
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Born out of late-night harmonies, shared voice memos, and a long-standing friendship rooted in mutual admiration, Haley Blais and Sam Lynch have formed the supergroup True Mountain Laurel. Their debut collection of songs, Angel So Bad, is a tender, dust-swept exploration of all the feelings that fall through the cracks. Equal parts folk reverie and country yearning, the project pulls from their respective solo careers. Sam’s poetic introspection and Haley’s razor-sharp lyrical intimacy blend into something softer, stranger, and wholly their own.
What began as casual writing sessions in between Sam and Haley’s respective tour cycles has slowly transformed into a collaborative ritual: trading lines and melodies over coffee and recording scrappy voice note demos at the end of the day. The songs emerged not from pressure or plan but from a desire to make music the way they first fell in love with it — no clocks, no ego, just two voices in a room.
The album’s title track, “Angel So Bad”, is an ode to the moral trials associated with that oldest of human hobbies: gossiping. Often put down as at best idle talk and at worst a social danger, "Angel So Bad" asks us to consider its magical properties, its role in community building, its function as a catalyst for human connection.
“When we finished writing ‘Angel So Bad’, I could tell it was going to be the inspiration for the world of the project and the rest of the songwriting process,” says Blais. “It’s tongue in cheek but earnest; it crosses its fingers while it tells the truth.”
“Although it wasn’t the first song we wrote together, ‘Angel So Bad’ felt like the true starting point of whatever this project was meant to be,” explains Lynch. “The song started as a conversation about gossip, and slowly turned into a cheeky exploration about how exhausting it can feel to constantly try to be a perfectly good person all the time.”
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MORE ABOUT TRUE MOUNTAIN LAUREL
Influenced by artists like Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, and early 2000s Canadian singer-songwriters, the project is less about genre and more about feel. Acoustic guitars, brushed drums, pedal steel, and the occasional jangly piano support lyrics that feel diaristic without being confessional: capturing the ache of growing older, the strangeness of still wanting more, and the joy of finding home in another person’s voice.
There’s a looseness to these songs that feels intentional. Where Sam’s solo work leans cinematic and atmospheric, and Haley’s leans into the clever and orchestral, here they meet in the middle: warm, minimal, and a little bit rough around the edges. Live, the project takes on an even more intimate form without setlists or rigid arrangements. Just two friends singing the truth as they feel it that night.
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PERFORMANCE DATES
Jun 9 - Toronto, ON | The Mod Club w/ Trousdale
Aug 2 - Comox, BC | Filberg Festival
ANGEL SO BAD TRACKLIST
01 Angel So Bad
02 Holy Hell
03 Bird Of Prey
04 East Of Anything
05 Sunny
06 I Love You, Nicole
07 Angel Reprise
08 The Trial