SLOW LEAVES SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK FROM UPCOMING LP

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SHELF LIFE OUT APRIL 3 VIA BIRTHDAY CAKE

TOUR DATES CONTINUE APRIL 7 - MORE DATES ADDED THROUGHOUT CANADA

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Winnipeg’s Slow Leaves - singer-songwriter, Grant Davidson – recently announced his sixth studio album, Shelf Life, due out April 3 via Birthday Cake. Today, the JUNO Master Class alumnus is sharing the new video for “Sink Full Of Dishes”. 

“I’m a daydreamer of sorts, a little bit lost between some hard reality I can’t yet grasp and a dream from which I’m not sure how to wake,” says Davidson. “It would be easy to call this an artistic space, but I know it’s more so just a place in which to hide from things I won’t confront. Each morning I wake up with a sink full of dishes and a head full of wishes. I’m never sure which mess to clean up first.”

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Known for his ability to breathe poetry into the ordinary, Slow Leaves continues his deep exploration of the self with Shelf Life. The 10-track LP leans into themes of romantic memory, domestic duty, artistic ambition, and dreams unfulfilled, underpinning the belief that there is indeed great strength in vulnerability. 

Rooted in reflections on time, Shelf Life is a record about growing up to realize you are not the person you thought you would be. It is a collection of songs that wades between tides of past and present, success and failure, things lost and things found. The result is a collection of musical vignettes, woven together by the loose threads of a tangled life.

Recorded mostly live off the floor, Davidson teamed up with Rusty Matyas (Weakerthans), Damon Mitchell (New Meanies), and Rejean Ricard (Telepathic Butterflies) to bring the album to life.

The release of Shelf Life follows Davidson’s critically acclaimed works Enough About Me (2017) and Beauty Is So Common (2014), both garnering heavy rotation on CBC Radio 2. The Winnipeg Free Press described Enough About Me as “a gentle breeze of exquisite playing and keen observations that will reward listeners again and again and again.” The album also garnered Davidson a nomination for a Western Canadian Music Award.

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Every song is an invitation to step inside Davidson’s inner world—a space of beauty and wisdom, coloured outside the lines. With warm voice and guitar, Davidson uncovers a humanity that shines in even the darkest corners. 

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TOUR DATES
Apr 7 - Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club - Winnipeg, MB
Apr 14 - Ironwood Stage & Grill - Calgary, AB
Apr 15 - Station on Jasper - Edmonton, ABApr 16 - Olds Town Square - Olds, AB
Apr 18 - The Stand Easy Legion - Jasper, AB
Apr 19 - Bo’s Bar and Grill - Red Deer, ABApr 22 - T&A Vinyl - Regina, SK
Apr 23 - Capitol Music Club - Saskatoon, SK
Apr 24 - Flav’r Country Ranch - Langenburg, SK
May 13 - The Foundry - Thunder Bay, ON
May 15 - Black Sheep Inn - Wakefield, QC w/ Graven
May 16 - Dakota Tavern - Toronto, ON w/ Kelly Sloan
May 17 - URSA mtl - Montreal, QCMay 19 - The Casbah - Hamilton, ON
May 20 - The Garnet - Peterborough, ON
May 21 - Phog Lounge - Windsor, ONMay 22 - Crow Bar - Collingwood, ON
May 23 - The Townhouse - Sudbury, ON

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SHELF LIFE TRACKLIST

01 Looking Out My Window
02 Miss You
03 Sink Full Of Dishes
04 Time Was On Your Side
05 Autumn Rain
06 Wishes
07 Half Of The Bed
08 Try Again In The Morning
09 Without A Care
10 Sentimental Teardrops

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STEVEN WILSON DROPS EPIC NEW TRACK, ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM

THE FUTURE BITES ARRIVES JUNE 12 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

“PERSONAL SHOPPER” HERALDS GROUNDBREAKING ARTIST/PRODUCER’S

MOST PROVOCATIVE AND MUSICALLY INVENTIVE WORK TO DATE

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EQUALLY AMBITIOUS WORLD TOUR BEGINS THIS FALL

“In post-truth times, joyous music may seem absurd, but Steven Wilson makes it, and the times we live in, feel alright.” – Pop Matters

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Groundbreaking musician/songwriter/producer Steven Wilson has announced today’s premiere of a truly epic new track. “PERSONAL SHOPPER” is available now for streaming and download.

“PERSONAL SHOPPER” – which was inspired in part by acclaimed French director Olivier Assayas’ 2016 film of the same name – heralds Wilson’s eagerly awaited sixth solo album, THE FUTURE BITES, due to arrive everywhere on June 12, exclusively via Arts & Crafts. A striking trailer previewing the album’s provocative themes of high concept consumerism and post-internet evolution is streaming now.

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Co-produced in London by Wilson with David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything), THE FUTURE BITES sees Wilson exploring contemporary addiction and the lasting effect of ever-increasing technology on our daily lives. The album marks his most inventive and far-reaching musical construction to date, spanning soaring acoustics, lush electronica, relentless bass-driven grooves, murky funk, and so much more, all linked through powerfully focused songcraft and this one-of-a-kind artist’s always unique creative vision.

Hailed by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke for his “fighting spirit and truly progressive ideals in rock composition, group improvisation and emotionally authentic storytelling,” Wilson will celebrate THE FUTURE BITES with an equally ambitious live schedule, promising “a series of special events at larger venues, something on a grander and more immersive scale.” The Future Bites Tour begins this fall with his biggest-ever headline shows in the United Kingdom and Europe; North American dates will be unveiled soon. For updates, please see stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/tour-dates. 

THE FUTURE BITES follows 2017’s critically acclaimed TO THE BONE, that gave Wilson his highest charting release thus far, reaching #9 on Billboard Top Albums, #28 on Canadian Albums, and # 3 on Alternative Albums.

Along with its popular success, TO THE BONE received ecstatic praise from the likes of Uncut, which wrote, “This insistently melodic, 11-song set is an old-school, sum-of-its parts experience.” TO THE BONE “keeps its pop and prog influences in a near perfect balance,” declared MOJO in a four-starred rave, “flash and flamboyant at times but with some lovingly crafted big tunes.” “TO THE BONE offers the song-centered side of Wilson’s musical world while maintaining clear connections with all elements of his formidable discography,” wrote Pop Matters. “Wilson’s music, whether encouraging a brighter outlook or a better understanding of what drives people to violence looks for the humanity in inhumane times. Music, like any great art form, should always aspire to that.”

Wilson followed TO THE BONE with a massive world tour that saw him playing to more than a quarter million fans at 145 shows in 33 countries, culminating in a sold-out three-night residency at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall captured for posterity on 2018’s Blu-ray/DVD and live album, HOME INVASION: IN CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. “HOME INVASION showcases Wilson’s range as a songwriter and musical thinker,” enthused Pop Matters. “It does not simply aim to capture the performances onstage. The cameras, restless more often than not, train their lenses on every facet of the concert experience, spanning the iconic ‘mushroom’ sound-diffusing saucers on the ceiling of the venue to the audience itself…HOME INVASION: IN CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL joins Wilson’s superb coterie of live concert films, capturing him at the zenith of his career.”

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THE FUTURE BITES TRACKLISTING
1 UNSELF
2 SELF
3 KING GHOST
4 12 THINGS I FORGOT
5 EMINENT SLEAZE
6 MAN OF THE PEOPLE
7 PERSONAL SHOPPER
8 FOLLOWER
9COUNT OF UNEASE

THE FUTURE BITES TOUR
Sep 17 – Nottingham, UK – Motorpoint Arena
Sep 19 – London, UK – The O2
Sep 21 – Paris, FR – Le Zénith Paris La Villette
Sep 23 – Milan, IT – Mediolanum Forum
Sep 25 – Oberhausen, DE – König-Pilsener-ARENA,
Sep 26 – Hamburg, DE – Sporthalle
Sep 28 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome
Sep 30 – Warsaw, PO – COS Torwar

More Dates TBA

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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD SHARES LUCINDA WILLIAMS COVER FROM UPCOMING EP

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IN MY CORNER OUT MARCH 20 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

HEADLINING TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 25TOURING WITH SARAH HARMER IN MAY

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Last month, celebrated songwriter Charlotte Cornfield announced a new 4 song EP, In My Corner, which features two originals and covers by Lucinda Williams and Yo La Tengo. “The idea was to have some fun exploring rhythm and space in the studio without overthinking the little details that one tends to stew over while making a record,” says Cornfield.

Today, she is sharing her cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits Of My Labor”. “When I first heard this song, I was so struck by the poetry of it,” says Cornfield. “Each verse is its own stanza, and the music just lifts the words to the fore. At first I just wanted memorize the lyrics, which was a beautiful exercise in and of itself, but I loved singing it so much that I started doing it at my live shows. It felt natural to record it. I feel like this song really represents where I’m at in life right now: resolved in some ways, moving on, just trying to enjoy it.”

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Recorded together with Sam Gleason and Evan Cartwright, In My Corner will be released via Next Door Records on March 20. The EP’s first single, “In My Corner” is a spacious romp about chance encounters on the road. “Life as a touring musician is full of transient friendships and sprawling geography,” says Cornfield. “Sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason to where and when you might cross paths with someone you haven’t seen in a while. This is a song about the beauty and inconsistency of those friendships that transcend time and distance. And really, it’s about people being there for each other.”

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 The other cover on the EP is Yo La Tengo’s “You Can Have It All” and it was only after Cornfield recorded the song that she realized that the Yo La Tengo version is actually a cover of a funk tune from the 70’s, written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch. “Our take on it is very much an homage to Yo La Tengo version, but I wanted to enter the groove and ride on the positivity sentiment of the song. When I hear it and play it, it’s like therapy.”

The EP finishes with a love song called “Upstate”, “‘cause not all ballads need to be sad,” says Cornfield. “I wanted it to be sparse and open, and I left room for a couple of little instrumental touches that accentuate the lyrics. I let the words guide this one, and the rest of it flowed from there.”

In the past, Cornfield has toured extensively in North America and Europe and has supported a huge range of artists including Tim Baker, Broken Social Scene, Anais Mitchell, Daniel Romano, and Sam Amidon. This Spring, she will headline a run of tour dates throughout North America before joining Sarah Harmer in May on the West Coast. Full tour dates can be found below.

Last year, Cornfield released the Polaris Music Prize long listed album The Shape Of Your Name which NOW Magazine called “a gorgeous collection of detail-rich folk songs” and Exclaim! said was her “songwriting at its most biting, lucid and nourished.” On the side, she is an in-demand drummer and musician and has worked closely with Tim Darcy of Ought, Molly Burch, Adrian Underhill, and members of Lake Street Dive. 

PRAISE FOR THE SHAPE OF YOUR NAME

“a gorgeous collection of detail-rich folk songs” - NOW Magazine

“...most refined record to date...The Shape of Your Name is Cornfield's songwriting at its most biting, lucid and nourished.” - Exclaim! 9/10

“...a reward reserved for those paying attention.” - Pitchfork

“After one run through of Charlotte Cornfield’s new single “Silver Civic”, I’m thinking back on past memories of every relationship I’ve been in. After two listens, I’m in tears.” - EARMILK

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IN  MY CORNER EP TRACKLIST
01 In My Corner
02 Fruits Of My Labor (Lucinda Williams)
03 You Can Have It All (Yo La Tengo / Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch)
04 Upstate

TOUR DATES
3/25 - Montreal, QC / Casa Del Popolo 
3/26 - Ottawa, ON / NAC 4th Stage 
3/27 - Burlington, VT / The Lamp Shop
3/28 - Troy, NY / Springwood Manor
3/29 - Boston, MA / ONCE Somerville
3/31 - Washington, DC / Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge
4/1 - Brooklyn, NY / Littlefield
4/2 - Greenfield, MA / The Root Cellar
4/3 - Hamilton, ON / Jillard Guitars
4/4 - Toronto, ON / Drake Underground
5/1 - Victoria, BC / Regular Occasion House Concert
5/2 - Vancouver, BC / What Lab
5/4 - Seattle. WA / The Triple Door %
5/5 - Portland, OR / The Old Church %5/7 - San Francisco, CA / Swedish American Hall %
5/8 - Los Angeles, CA / McCabe's %

% with Sarah Harmer

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