DONOVAN WOODS SHARES NEW SONG, “GREW APART”

March 6, 2020

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“PORTLAND, MAINE” GOES GOLD IN CANADA

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Today, following the news that his song “Portland, Maine” was Certified Gold in Canada, multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Donovan Woods is sharing his new song “Grew Apart”, which Rolling Stone calls a “simmering break up tune". The track previews his seventh studio album due later this year.

Produced by long-time collaborator James Bunton with vocal production by Todd Clark (Dua Lipa, Gavin DeGraw, Phillip Phillips), the song is co-written by Woods, Logan Wall, and Travis Wood. It exemplifies Woods’ ability to write with “soulful passion” (American Songwriter), revealing the soft underbelly of love’s vagaries.

“This song is about all the things we tell ourselves a breakup is about when perhaps the truth is just that two people didn’t like each other enough,” says Woods. "The chorus is a list of linguistic place holders that people use to communicate one thing: I don’t want to talk about it. I think men tend to speak about break-ups in this way so their pride doesn’t get wounded, when in truth, they’re hurting.”

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“Grew Apart” follows Woods’ deeply personal “While All The While”, a track co-written alongside Lori McKenna. Cumulatively, Woods’ songs have earned more than 130 million streams and more than 1 million monthly listeners.

Currently on tour in Canada, Woods will head to the US on March 31 to support 6 time Grammy Award nominee Brandy Clark (Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker, Kacey Musgraves) on her ‘Who You Thought I Was Tour’ before headlining his own run in May. For tickets and more information, visit donovanwoods.net/tour

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*supporting Brandy Clark
^headline shows with support by Emily Brimlow

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JAUNT ANNOUNCE DEBUT LP, SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE

March 5, 2020

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ALL IN ONE DUE OUT APRIL 16, 2020

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Toronto-based six-piece Jaunt are set to release their debut album All In One on April 16. The band formed in 2016 as a casual recording project that, upon the release of their debut EP Chat, became a local overnight sensation.

Today, Jaunt share “Delighted To Be Spoken To”, the second single to be taken from their upcoming LP, a song about resisting self-pity by developing a practice of gratitude for the fleeting, simple, joyful details of life. The accompanying video visually reflects that sentiment. The video is the first in a series of 6 tableaus – 1 for each band member – depicting mundane, yet vibrant and playful environments caught, slowed down, under a microscope, on repeat, and in reverse shot on 16mm. This first one is of vocalist Caitlin Woelfe-O’Brien.

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Recorded over three years and engineered in collaboration with Alex Sowinski (BADBADNOTGOOD), this collection serves as a travelogue for the band’s growth. All In One celebrates connection, creativity, and adaptation all passed through the lens of desktop pop sensibilities and an endearingly adventurous spirit. Equal parts experimental and infectiously raw, faintly electric and distinctly exposed, the cornucopia of styles and sounds presented in All In One finds itself glued together by a palpable and unique sense of understanding and friendship.

A trip down memory lane might credit Jaunt’s beginnings to an elixir of coincidence and surrendering to try something new. Pat O’Brien, now the band’s guitarist, met future lead singer and songwriter Tom Helliwell at a Halloween party, striking a friendship that manifested across a few years of jams and shared musical creations. Somewhere along the way, Pat booked a show out of the blue, the band released their first EP, Chat, and Jaunt had graduated from a digital manifest of closeted collaborations to something tangible. Keyboardist Daniel Reardon entered the fold for the band’s first performance, followed closely by the addition of drummer Duncan Hood and bassist Nick Nausbaum.

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Jaunt’s artistic palette, social circle, and resume developed quickly and organically, alongside their time active in the Toronto music scene. Duncan’s friendship and collaborations with Alex Sowinski intersected with Nick’s ties to the Montreal ecosystem that produced breakouts like Homeshake and Yves Jarvis; this further fostered creative community and opportunities to tour and record on top of groundwork already established by Pat and Tom. Duncan and Nick began performing with Charlotte Day Wilson as her backing band and would cross paths with vocalist and video artist Caitlin Woelfe-O’Brien playing similar venues. A friendship was sparked, Caitlin contributed her voice to coloring the band’s second EP, Cue, and now is a full-time member of the group. By this time, Jaunt had become a well-oiled machine: a synergetic sextet fueled by earnest ambition and artistic momentum.

The band’s origin story is the genesis for what would become their full-length debut. In name, All In One, evokes wholeness while feeling vast, a testament to the record’s breadth of musical directions and underlying cohesiveness. Thematically, it’s an homage to changes and evolution experienced by Jaunt on both an individual and collective scale throughout the album’s creation. The unpredictable variables in the bandmate’s lives – new jobs, partners, successes, failures, Tom moving to Hawaii for love – all provided a backdrop and clear pathos as they developed a consistent collection of works. Some songs on the album are more recently recorded; others were pocketed for future use. The goal and meaning of All In One was always on the horizon as Jaunt navigated unwaveringly toward it.

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ALL IN ONE TRACKLIST
01 All In One
02 Nostalgia For The Present Moment
03 Crushed Velvet
04 Pt 205 True Affections
06 Bakers Moves
07 Obvious Answer
08 Callous Standard
09 Suggestions
10 Delighted To Be Spoken To

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AUSTRA ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES VIDEO FOR “ANYWAYZ”

March 5, 2020

**AUSTRA ANNOUNCES FOURTH LP, HiRUDiN, OUT MAY 1, 2020 VIA PINK FIZZ**

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TOUR DATES BEGIN MAY 5

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Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. Today, Austra (aka Katie Austra Stelmanis) announces her fourth album, HiRUDiN. Set for release on May 1, via Pink Fizz, HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

Having previously shared “Risk It” from the forthcoming record, now Austra shares new single “Anywayz”. The album’s opening track, Stelmanis says of “Anywayz”: “It explores the fear associated with leaving someone, and the terrifying realization that without them in your life, the rest of the world will continue unscathed as if nothing has changed.”

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The director of the video for “Anywayz” (and also the video for “Risk It”), Jasmin Mozaffari (‘Firecrackers’) adds: “I wanted the video to feel as dramatic and chaotic as heartbreak can be, bringing this fear into fruition. The concept focuses on Katie as a heightened version of herself, sequestered inside a barren mansion that resembles a cage of her own spiralling thoughts. She resists moving on, yet as time persists and the outside world thrives, it eventually forces itself upon her.”

Katie Austra Stelmanis has been better known by her middle name for three albums, ten years, and countless tours. She wrote, produced, and performed all her own records, occasionally sharing the spotlight with a band to tour live. From the outside, things were going really well for a while: she built a devoted fan base and sold out shows all around the world. However, on the inside, Stelmanis was beginning to feel stagnant and uninspired. “I was losing faith in my own ideas,” she explains. Without realising it, she’d got caught up in a toxic relationship that was tearing her apart.

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It wasn’t until Stelmanis was ready to face her insecurities that she was able to see a way forward: “My creative and personal relationships were heavily intertwined, and I knew the only answer was to part ways with all of the people and comforts that I’d known for the better part of a decade and start again.” Alongside making changes in her personal life, HiRUDiN saw Austra taking an entirely different, free-spirited approach to making a record. Seeking out all new collaborators, she booked three days of sessions in Toronto with improv musicians she’d never met before. They included two thirds of contemporary classical improv group c_RL, the cellist and kamanche duo Kamancello, kulintang ensemble Pantayo, and a children’s choir.

Accumulating a vast and vibrant mass of source material, Austra then holed up in a studio in the Spanish countryside and took a collage approach to sampling, arranging, writing and producing to reveal the songs that would form the album. “I found myself really enjoying the role of producer for this record,” she says, “directing and arranging a very disparate array of parts and people and feeling strong in my own conviction for what I wanted it to sound like.” HiRUDiN additionally saw her work alongside co-producers for the first time, Rodaidh McDonald and Joseph Shabason, and she brought in David Wrench and Heba Kadry to mix and master the record respectively. “It was incredibly liberating and a huge learning process to work with so many different people,” she says. “I felt completely revitalized.”

While Austra’s third album, Future Politics, was concerned with the external power structures that shape society, HiRUDiN points inward. It traces a deeply personal journey towards regeneration, dealing with the fallout of toxic relationships, queer shame, and insecurity along the way. Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your innermost desires. It reaps the rewards of Austra’s leap into the unknown, in her most introspective yet inventive statement to date.

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HiRUDiN TRACKLIST
01 Anywayz
02 All I Wanted
03 How Did You Know?
04 Your Family
05 Risk It
06 Interlude i
07 It’s Amazing
08 Mountain Baby feat. Cecile Believe
09 I Am Not Waiting
10 Interlude ii
11 Messiah

TOUR DATES
May 5 - Longboat Hall - Toronto, ON
May 7 - The Sultan Room - New York, NY | Sold Out
May 12 - Hoxton Hall - London, UK | Sold Out
May 13 - Le Badaboum - Paris, FR | Sold Out
May 14 - Mil.Leni Festival - Barcelona, ES
May 16 - Mallorca Live Festival - Palma de Mallorca, ES
May 18 - Theater Im Delphi - Berlin, DE | Sold Out
May 20 - Niebo - Warsaw, PL
May 21 - WUK - Vienna, AU
May 22 - Tomavistas Festival - Madrid, ES

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