MICAH ERENBERG CELEBRATES ALBUM RELEASE WITH NEW VIDEO

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LOVE IS GONNA FIND YOU OUT TODAY VIA SLEEPLESS RECORDS

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To celebrate today’s release of his new LP, Love Is Gonna Find You, Micah Erenberg is sharing the new video for album track “What Am I Doing Here”. The video “documents the time that I pulled over for some instant ramen at an intergalactic rest stop,” says Erenberg. “Alien chickens, unlimited art supplies, a pool table with only 3s, 6s and 9s? A few days later they wired me the footage from their VHS surveillance cameras and of course I couldn’t help but ask Little Jack Films to make a music video out of it.”

On the song, Erenberg says, “sometimes you find yourself living a life that just doesn’t seem like yours. Even if all is well and good on paper, it isn’t necessarily OK inside. Finding yourself in this world isn’t a straight and narrow path. This song is for anyone going through some self discovery.”

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Out today via Sleepless Records, Love Is Gonna Find You is the songwriter’s highly anticipated second album. The LP finds Erenberg lifting his listeners into a sphere of delicate fulfillment, painting loneliness as a universal craving for human connection over his narratives of getting sober, rain soaked mornings and searching for something bigger than ourselves. 

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Growing up in the very rural Manitoba, Erenberg gravitated towards music as a curious endeavour around the age of 9 when he first picked up a guitar. That soon turned into writing and recording and inevitably, tours followed and numerous band projects continued until, at the age of 20, he set out to do his own thing. Going it alone has allowed him to express an overlying message of love and positivity through his work and it’s on Love Is Gonna Find You that Erenberg has truly found his groove.

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Lyrically, the album paints a scrambling collage of navigating the loss of love while also providing a rolling, self-effacing pep talk. With love, comes pain and Erenberg’s commentary on both simultaneously elevates the textures throughout. It’s a kaleidoscope of memories, merged together to push Erenberg out of the funk he’s found himself in to produce something ultimately positive and downright life-affirming. As he points out on opener, “Do It For Love”, live for the minute you came to this Earth and the minute you’ll leave, no matter how long those nights can feel.

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Produced and recorded with Alexandre Bonenfant, the album was crafted in several studios between Toronto, Winnipeg, and Micah’s home town. Switching up the environments has manifested itself as a mirage of characters, ones that teeter on the soft focus of an acoustic guitar while others erupt into strange electronic soundscapes. There’s woozy harmonies, low croons and fervent choruses. Erenberg may revel in the gloom for a moment but it’s soon dispersed as the laugh of a friend echoes in between songs. It’s raw, it’s real and it’s full of heart.

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TOUR DATES
Oct 04-5 - Whitehorse, YT - BreakOut West (nominated for Roots Solo Artist of the Year) 
Oct 09 - Glasgow, UK - Hug & Pint 
Oct 11 - Lake District, UK - Wild Zucchinis Bistro 
Oct 12 - Middlesborough, UK - Twisterella Festival 
Oct 13 - Newcastle, UK - Bobik's 
Oct 14 - London, UK - Sebright Arms
Oct 15 - London, UK - Shacklewell Arms
Oct 16 - London, UK - The Islington 
Oct 17 - St Leonard’s, UK - Marina Fountain 
Oct 18 - Margate, UK - Tom Thumb Theatre
Oct 19 - Rotterdam, NL - Left of the Dial Festival
Oct 20 - Tilburg, NL - Sofar Sounds
Oct 26 - Cologne, DE - Cologne Acoustic Concerts
Oct 27 - Dortmund, DE - Tanz Auf Ruinen
Oct 29 - Leipzig, DE - Tonellis 
Nov 14 - Winnipeg, MB - WECC 
Nov 20 - Toronto, ON - The Dakota Tavern

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LOVE IS GONNA FIND YOU TRACKLIST
1. Do It For Love
2. What Am I Doing Here
3. The Hardest Thing to Say
4. Into the Night
5. Just Who I Am
6. Love Is Gonna Find You
7. Somewhere Beyond the Ocean
8. Sunspill
9. Bored 
10. Wake Me Up When It’s Over

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PONDERCAST EPISODE 49: THE RHEOSTATICS

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After a 15 year hiatus, The Rheostatics have a new album, Here Come the Wolves. Produced by Chris Stringer, it’s a beauty. It has everything we’ve come to expect from a Rheos record; bite and humour, and soaring, expansive musical vistas. Their sound has been described as “orchestral psychedelia”, which makes sense to me.

On Pondercast Episode 49, you will hear Laurie Brown’s interview with Tim Vesely, Dave Bidini, Dave Clark and Martin Tielli which happened in front of a roomful of Rheo fans at Sonic Boom in Toronto at the record release. And you’ll hear tracks from the new album.

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nêhiyawak SHARES NEW SONG “disappear”

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DEBUT ALBUM nipiy OUT OCT 24 ON ARTS & CRAFTS
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“a psychedelic-rock record that exceeds its hype by defying convention and building up and out from a foundation of family and Elder teachings, honouring the connections and relationships between everything from the Sixties Scoop to the flow and pace of the kisiskâciwanisîpiy (North Saskatchewan River).” - CBC Music

“This trio from Amiskwaciy in Treaty 6 is almost certain to become the next big thing in the exploding First Nations music scene in Canada.” - Vancouver Sun

“A record for and about community, and it's a thing of heavy, expansive beauty.” - The Line Of Best Fit

“... resonates with enlightenment, pulls the past into the present and offers listeners a new awakening, a new perspective” - Dominionated

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nêhiyawak hails from amiskwaciy (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. On the band’s debut album, nipiy – out October 24 on Arts & Crafts – the trio of Indigenous artists – Kris Harper (vocals, guitars), Marek Tyler (drums), and Matthew Cardinal (synths, bass) – transcends a new intersection of traditional storytelling and modern sound. 

nêhiyawak today shares “disappear” – the second single and the penultimate track on the masterful twelve-song album. “disappear” is a devastatingly forlorn but beautiful reprieve that connects stories of Indigenous disappearances in Canada and Honduras. Written and arranged in 2013 shortly after Harper attended a lecture in Toronto on problems faced by Indigenous cultures, “disappear” references keynote speaker Bertha Oliva’s “stories about the impacts of the tourist industry on Honduras specifically and the tactics used to implement these geographical disruptions.” Harper recounts how the song came together:

“While just before going to record the first three nêhiyawak songs with [producer] Colin Stewart, Matthew Cardinal and I scheduled a bunch of one on one rehearsals where we were collaborating on writing arrangements. And within about three rehearsals we were very confident about the arrangement for the song, and I quickly began to write about stories I knew of Indigenous life in amiskwaciy.”

nêhiyawak fills “disappear” with both lush ambience and a sense of enormous void – the sparse wooden rhythm, wiry guitar phrases, and shimmering electronics at first barely hold up Harper’s words, which too falter with emotional weight. A major shift occurs in the song’s second half, as each element swells into cacophony and Harper’s voice strains the refrain:

put out a call, who vanned them out?
where did they go? does anybody know?
a new game in town, holes in the ground
water pulled around, families not found

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nêhiyawak – whose name refers directly to their nêhiyaw ancestry – is a spirited expression of Indigeneity. nipiy, which translates to water, is the title of nêhiyawak's first full length album. The flow and pace of the album, symbolic of the flow and pace of water, begins and ends with pieces dedicated to kisiskâciwanisîpiy (North Saskatchewan River), a river that flows through the center of amiskwaciy. In the band's words, “There are many important ideas and teachings that we were raised with in our lives, but few more important than water. It’s a modern conversation with complex meanings and understandings.”

WATCH “kisiskâciwanisîpiy pêyak” (Album Trailer) HERE 

Produced by Colin Stewart (The New Pornographers, Black Mountain, Destroyer), nêhiyawak’s sound combines terse post-rock soundscapes with surreal pop and sheer ambient aspects. Anchored by the hollowed pounding of Tyler’s traditional carved cedar log drums and Cardinal’s electronic inflections, nipiy combines the teachings of nêhiyawak’s Elders with the band’s own interests in music, instrumentation and lyrics. nipiy tells their story of collective experience – a band empowered by history and progress, compelled to add to the great body of work. As Harper says, “Our goal is not to build up a group of individuals, but rather keep kicking at the door built in front of many.”

Strongly inspired by the Idle No More movement, says Harper, “nipiy is for those who don’t seem to fit in for myriads of reasons. To inspire others to use their voice and to send messages to future generations.” In contrast to the first single, “ôtênaw” – the visceral, raucous apex of the album – “disappear” puts front and centre the spirituality and deep consideration held in the vast space between each note, each inflection, each word.

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Best described in the band’s own words, drummer Marek Tyler offers this context on nêhiyawak:

“Why is nêhiyawak more than a band? Because our families, our nêhiyaw communities, and our ways of knowing and being inform our work. For me, our album nipiy represents an ongoing process of connecting, learning and growing with each other.”

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TOUR DATES
Oct 4 - Edmonton, AB - Aviary
Oct 5 - Calgary, AB - King Eddy
Dec 5 - Vancouver, BC - Museum of Anthropology
Dec 6 - Victoria, BC - Lucky Bar

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nêhiyawak - nipiy tracklist
1. kisiskâciwanisîpiy pêyak 
2. copper
3. page
4. somnambulist
5. secret 
6. perch
7. ôtênaw
8. starlight
9. tommaso
10. open window
11. disappear
12. kisiskâciwanisîpiy nîso

NOTES
nêhiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ
Pronunciation: NEH-hee-oh-wuk
Meanings: Cree People, People of the Plains, Plains People, Exact People, Free People
Note: There are no letters capitalized in Cree language. Please write name in all lower case.

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