THE ELWINS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE NEW SINGLE “WEIGHT OF THE WORLD”

NEW ALBUM, IV, TO BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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“Newmarket quartet the Elwins unleash prolific and high-energy indie-rock sounds in their new single “Take Me All The Way.” The band combine guitar riffs straight from ’70s classic rock with modern powerhouse vocals to create a unique blend that’ll make you feel like a seasoned rock fan. Fans of the Black Keys will find much to love with these up-and-coming rockers. The catchy single will appear on their fourth studio LP due this fall.” - Alt Press

“’Take Me All The Way’ channels the best of various rock and roll elements found through different decades. Its catchy guitar hook is reminiscent of The Beatles and The Kinks, two of the bands biggest influences on their latest work.  The release is also accompanied by a throwback-style video directed by Wyatt Clough and filmed with retro lenses to give a film-noir classic rock feel.” – Earmilk

‘“Take Me All The Way” is a hard-hitting rock number…” – American Songwriter

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The Elwins are thrilled to announce their new album, IV, to be released on September 18, 2020. As a preview The Elwins has released the new single “Weight Of The World”. Lead singer Matthew Sweeney says, “This is a story speaking to how everyone has to deal with the weight of the world in one way or another. That kind of brings us together in a sense. just a friendly reminder that everyone has got this shit feeling from time to time, some more than others, but all you can really do is to try and take it easy on yourself.” 

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When fans pre-order the album, they will receive the insta-grat track of “Weight Of The World” and also the first single “Take Me All The Way” that is out now as well. 

The Newmarket four-piece has made a decade-plus long career out of carefully crafting clever and cozy tunes. An Elwins song is just as comfortable in your headphones as you walk as it is being blasted from the sound system at one of their vibrant live shows.  

Taking a break from their prolific touring schedule, which most recently has found them playing alongside acts such as Passion Pit, Metric and Born Ruffians, The Elwins took to a handful of studios to record their latest collection of songs. With their fourth LP on the way, Matthew Sweeney, Travis Stokl, Francesco Figliomeni, and Feurd have done it again. Self-produced by the band, with a diverse and detailed sound reflecting influences from 70s AM-radio pop to the mid-2000s alternative that the band was borne out of, the record is a prime showcase for the collective magic of these four talented songwriters.

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IV TRACKLIST
01 Something Is Happening Here
02 Take Me All The Way
03 Rockin’ The Horse
04 Let Her Be The One
05 Giving Up On Yourself
06 I Will
07 Weight Of The World
08 Slow Motion
09 Backyard At My Mom’s
10 Hung Up
11 1971
12 Daughter Song
13 Hold On To Love

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YVES JARVIS SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “VICTIM”

YVES JARVIS (FORMERLY UN BLONDE) FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED 2019 ALBUM THE SAME BUT BY DIFFERENT MEANS

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“...he’s less a writer than a sculptor, forever picking away at the monolithic mass of musical ideas in his mind. He’s as enamored with process as with results, letting us marvel at the little pieces he’s chipped off along the way.” - Pitchfork

“At times, the 22-year-old autodidact can sound like Stevie Wonder (if Stevie were performing in a library, that is), and at others he channels a subdued Captain Beefheart.” – NPR Music

“His style evokes uncovered recordings from an obscure spiritual retreat, ones that make you believe something transcendent was near when they were made.” - The Fader

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Montreal’s Yves Jarvis has released a video and a new song entitled “Victim” today. The song is “a tightrope walk between victor and victim,” Jarvis explains and he has shared a lyric video for the song based around a hand-drawn loop of animation that he has been working on.

“Victim” is Jarvis’s first new music in 2020, following the release of his March 2019 album The Same But By Different Means. 

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Yves Jarvis is a clean slate, a recasting of Montreal-based musician Jean-Sebastian Audet who formerly went by the moniker Un Blonde. Each aspect of Audet’s work is immensely personal, and Yves Jarvis reflects this literally. Yves is Audet’s middle name, while Jarvis is his mother’s last name. Audet continues to create music that is at once warm, haunting, and unfamiliar while remaining singularly inviting and kind—a mélange that reflects both comfort and its counterpart. Audet’s 2017 debut LP Good Will Come To You (released as Un Blonde) was celebrated universally for those things that make Audet’s work compelling: careful folk noir, tender R&B flourishes, pillowy vocal beds that somehow seem to neither begin nor end, and a punkish ambivalence towards saccharine melodics that traditionally dominate the previous three structures.

Included on the 2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List, The Same But By Different Means builds a delightful, imaginative framework from which to explore what it means to be Yves Jarvis. The album “doesn’t so much move from song to song as it pulses in place … the music flows and swirls and bubbles with the same mellow mood, with melodies and rhythms rising up and sliding back down into the warm eddies,” said Bandcamp. Jarvis personally played all 10+ instruments that are heard on the album, with songs ranging from 14 seconds long to over eight minutes.

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LUKA KUPLOWSKY ANNOUNCES NEW LP, STARDUST, SHARES FIRST SINGLE

STARDUST OUT OCTOBER 2 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

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Luka Kuplowsky is announcing Stardust, his first full-length release for Next Door Records , with the first single “Never Get Tired (of Loving You)”. While not pining nor sugarcoating, “Never Get Tired (of Loving You)” is a love song, looking at love as an intrinsic component for growth, a solidarity between two people hurtling through the chaotic present. It’s not something light or easy. Rather, this love is, as Luka puts it, “a patient attuning.” Speaking to the single, Kuplowsky says, “Written in an empty apartment shortly after moving in with my partner. A sincere expression of love. A sacred love song attuned to the natural world - thunder, wind, moonlight and a dolphin.

‘Never Get Tired (of Loving You)’ describes love as a form of recognition - a way to see another and ourselves authentically. It is a celebration of difference nurtured and shared. A patient attuning.

One 'never gets tired' because love refreshes the joyful struggle of being - it's that which makes us alive, carry weight and grow.”

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The first single continues where we left off with Kuplowksy’s Judee Justin Arthur Mary, the reimagined covers EP from earlier this year. With many of the same players as the EP, “Never Get Tired (of Loving You)” features Evan Cartwright (Andy Shauf, U.S. Girls) on drums, Thom Gill (Martha Wainwright, Sam Amidon) on electric guitar and organ, standout jazz player Josh Cole (Josh Cole Quartet, Sandro Perri) on fretless bass, Bahamas’ Felicity Williams (Bahamas) and Robin Dann (Bernice) for backing vocals, and Brodie West (Broken Social Scene, The Ex) on alto sax. 

Stardust sees Luka incorporating strings and horns to accompany the jazz-inflected folk sound that he explored on his EP. The album is truly a cinematic exploration of song by Kuplowksy, who works as an adjunct professor of film in Toronto. His narratives often twist and weave through realism and melodrama, romanticism and surrealism. Kuplowsky has an ability to create non-linear narratives that both feel complete and can leave your head spinning with a simple lyric, such as the standout line on the eponymous “Stardust”, where Luka sings, ‘Did I make an angel blush, with my suffering, my loss?’. 

Kuplowsky explains his heady vision for the new album, saying:

“In Stardust, the voice is a planet and the band, satellites in orbit.
The songs find their flow in this dance, finding balance not in cohesion but rotation.
Similarly, the lyrics are not necessarily narrative or linear, rather they are spheres of thought and contemplation.
Verses and choruses circle an idea rather than move towards a foregone conclusion. 
Let's extend this metaphor further in another direction.
Stardust is indebted to the creativity of Joni Mitchell, Arthur Russell, John Trudell, and Ryan Driver (among
others).
Think of influence not as a mask or screen, but also an ORBIT.
You gotta create your own gravity, or else you're just drifting...
Forever an apprentice in song, 
- Luka Kuplowsky”

With his wonderful new album Stardust, Luka Kuplowsky makes a refreshing argument for the relevance of acoustic music as a place to hold thought; an open space to place impeccably chosen words, ideas and images. A young songwriter with a calm, conversational delivery and an effortless, un-showy grasp of poetry; Kuplowsky humbly picks up the same threads of inquiry that did Cohen, asking the big questions about love, meaning and consciousness. Musically, Stardust triangulates between Hejira and Late for the Sky, finding connections between the purity of simple melody and the tangled modulations of jazz. Luka Kuplowsky makes a music of contemplation, a music alive to the everyday possibilities of epiphany and revelation, an unhurried music that moves with the gentle and curving rhythms of thought.

From the first note, Stardust feels fresh and immediate, and this immediacy is no accident. The album was recorded in just two days, in a studio with almost no isolation, with an all-star band of musicians drawn from the rich jazz and improvisational scenes of Toronto. Vocals and nearly everything else was recorded live, in an act of pure trust, and the album truly captures a performance, an assembly of players discovering the songs in real time.

~ written by Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station)

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STARDUST TRACKLIST
1. Do I Have to Be
2. Never Get Tired (of Loving You)
3. Stardust
4. Crazy Love
5. Rough Times
6. City By My Window
7. Positive Push
8. Sayonara Blue
9. Skyline
10. Stardust (Reprise)
11. Be New

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