GEORDIE GORDON’S NEW ALBUM, RIVER ROUND, OUT MAY 1, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS
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Out May 1 from Victory Pool Records, Geordie Gordon’s third solo album River Round is 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. The album’s first single “Endless Line” closes the distance between two lovers that are apart, and this theme, the closing of distances, is repeated as one of music’s healing and super powers.
“I have been so lucky that playing in bands has brought me to some amazing parts of the world,” says Gordon. “Amidst the whirlwind of touring, I often try to find a quiet moment to sit back and appreciate the places that I find myself in; reaching the ocean after a long drive, crossing through a towering mountain range to get to the next show, walking through the sleeping streets of a great city after we’ve packed up for the night. These are the moments when I most feel how tiny I am on this giant planet. At the same time, I reach inward and know that I am carrying with me all the people that I love back home. Though they might be thousands of miles and many time zones away, there is an invisible thread that connects us. Endless Line is an ode to the love that binds us always, no matter where we are.
“‘Endless Line’ was written on my four-string tenor guitar, an instrument that seems to want to produce fiddle tunes and waltzes. Because of that, most of my new songs have ended up in 3/4 or 6/8 time. ‘Endless Line’ sprouted from the folk music of my upbringing but grew into an upbeat rock song that builds as layers and rhythms are added. It was recorded with a live rhythm section of Steven Foster on drums, Ed Squires on congas, and Ben Whiteley on bass. The track flows forward with a raw, organic exuberance, building to a fuzz guitar solo then bursting into a joyous finale where the horn section of Dan Gooch and vocals of Isla Craig summit the sonic peak.”
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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.”
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.
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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
