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NEW LP, AFTERTOUCH, OUT SEPTEMBER 24 VIA BOILED RECORDS

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“A pathway to another dimension” - CLASH

“The musical equivalent of colouring outside the lines” - CBC Music

“Deep-space cosmic-rock odyssey that they’ll be blasting on Orion” – Pitchfork 

 “Full of groovy motorik rhythms and reverb-soaked hooks” – Rolling Stone

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Absolutely Free shares another slice of the band’s prismatic digital arcadia with “Remaining Light”, a sprawling two-part sonic journey, originally written in 2016, incited by rising gun violence against marginalized populations at the time. The song is a centrepiece of Absolutely Free’s long-anticipated sophomore album, Aftertouch – out September 24 via Boiled Records.

On “Remaining Light”, Absolutely Free tackles issues of structural racism, poverty and injustice embedded within society’s corrupt systems. “Remaining Light” takes us one step closer to a glacial cybernetic  landscape — its retro-synths and marimba-propelled groove evoking shades of Arthur Russell's World of Echo and the post-rock sensibilities of Tortoise and Meddle-era Pink Floyd.

Absolutely Free: “‘Remaining Light’ expresses the frustration felt towards invincible and corrupt institutions that uphold structural inequities, including police brutality and manufactured poverty experienced primarily by racialized communities. Written during a heat wave in the summer of 2016, the song dishearteningly remains as relevant as ever today.”

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Running free with flourishes of experimentation, yet rooted in accessible melody and rhythm, Absolutely Free blurs boundaries between avant-garde and pop across the sophomore album’s eight songs. A tug-of-war within its sonic harmony, Aftertouch explores narratives of hegemony, grief, and exploitation in the present while ultimately sustaining curiosity for the unknown “post-everything” future. Making reference to the name of a synthesizer function, Aftertouch deconstructs seismic shifts in contemporary culture and lingers in the echoing sensations that remain.

Known for their varying multi-instrumentalist approaches and experimental live performances, Absolutely Free “wanted to create an album that wasn’t bound by a physical ability to perform it live, to not only expand our palette, but also to consider the live performance as something completely separate.” Shifting in the liminal space between analogue and digital sounds, real and fabricated images, revelling in and refuting the loss of tactility, Absolutely Free is able to create vibrations of physical tension and emotional resonance.  

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The Toronto psychedelic pop trio’s Polaris Music Prize nominated self-titled debut was hailed as “breathtakingly beautiful” by Stereogum upon its 2014 release. Following an array of multimedia projects and releases, including 2019’s Geneva Freeport EP (featuring U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy), the band recently returned with the ascendant “How To Paint Clouds” – called a “flying wedge of art pop” by Brooklyn Vegan – and “Interface”, a kaleidoscopic blast about the dichotomy of the digital-social identity that CLASH called a “pathway to another dimension.”

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Produced by Jorge Elbrecht, who has shaped the sound of releases by No Joy, Gang Gang Dance, Japanese Breakfast, and his own bands Lansing-Dreiden and Violens, Aftertouch is dense with ideas but balanced by precise decisions. Culling from a myriad of influences that span Krautrock, New Wave, the proliferation of international Psychedelic and Funk Compilations, and early forms of electronic dance music, Absolutely Free has created a patina of disparate but harmonic styles distinctly its own. 

Comprised of the core trio of Matt King (vocals/multi-instrumentalist), Michael Claxton (bass/synth), and Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg (drums/synth), Absolutely Free is an offshoot of the now-defunct experimental rock outfit DD/MM/YYYY, whose multi-rhythmic boundary-pushing raison d'être provided a springboard for the open skyline on which Absolutely Free now creates. The band’s Polaris-nominated 2014 debut album Absolutely Free., released via Arts & Crafts/Fat Possum Records garnered international acclaim from Pitchfork, FADER, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, Under The Radar, Pop Matters, AllMusic, many more. Absolutely Free have toured alongside Alvvays, Youth Lagoon, and Preoccupations and have shared bills with Beak>, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, U.S. Girls, and Fucked Up.   

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TRACK LIST
01: Epilogue (After Touch)
02: How To Paint Clouds
03: Interface
04: Remaining Light
05: Still life 
06: Are They Signs
07: Clear Blue Sky
08: Morning Sun

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HOMESHAKE’S NEW LP, UNDER THE WEATHER, OUT TODAY VIA DINE ALONE

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"the perfect balance between atmospheric melancholy and dreamy de-stressor ... the ultimate cozy comfort" Exclaim!

2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 4, 2022

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Today, Toronto-based musician Homeshake, born Peter Sagar, shares his new album Under The Weather. Written in 2019, Under The Weather, is out via Dine Alone and is Sagar's fifth studio album under the Homeshake moniker. The album is an atmospheric, 12-track reflection on life and depression, and documents a long, unrelenting period of sadness for the artist.

To celebrate the release of Under The Weather, Homeshake is sharing a weather forecast app that gets a fan’s location (or lets them input one to get a result for other places), queries OpenWeather’s API to find out the weather they are experiencing, and suggests an appropriate song from the album to accompany their day.

Try it out at: https://homeshake.net/forecast/ 

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The album's release closely follows the Keith Rankin-directed video, "I Know I Know I Know", one of three singles shared in tandem with an animated visual, following "Passenger Seat", directed by Pete Sharp and "Vacuum", directed by Jordan Speer. Homeshake teamed up with aforementioned Brain Dead Studios, the producer for each of the videos, to create a cohesive visual universe around the record with the animations and forthcoming merchandise.

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Under The Weather also arrives ahead of Homeshake's 2022 North American and European tours. Homeshake's North American tour will begin April 2nd in Edmonton and will continue on across the country for 33 dates, including stops in Brooklyn, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago and more, before concluding the run May 26th in Detroit. He'll be joined by UK duo Babeheaven from April 18th through April 27th and Bay Area artist Salami Rose Joe Louis from April 28th through May 26th. The European leg of the tour kicks off on September 14th in Glasgow and wraps up in Warsaw on September 29th. Tickets are available here.

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Vinyl for the record, which includes a limited edition Dine Alone Orange Crush variant, is available to purchase now.

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2022 TOUR DATES
4/2 - Edmonton, AB @ Starlite
4/3 - Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth
4/15 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
4/16 - Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre
4/18 - Boston, MA @ Royale+
4/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel+
4/20 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts+
4/22 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club+
4/23 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle+
4/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse+
4/25 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge+
4/27 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic New Orleans+
4/28 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live*
4/29 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas*
4/30 - Dallas, TX @ Studio At The Factory
5/2 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger*
5/3 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace*
5/4 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
5/6 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park*
5/7 - Las Vegas, NV @ 24 Oxford at Virgin Hotels*
5/8 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory*
5/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern*
5/13 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom*
5/14 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom*
5/16 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre*
5/17 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile*
5/19 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux*
5/20 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge*
5/21 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre*
5/23 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar*
5/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Cedar Cultural Center*
5/25 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall*
5/26 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theater*

9/14 - Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke's
9/15 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
9/16 - Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
9/17 - London UK @ Electric Brixton
9/18 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
9/20 - Paris, FR @ Trabendo
9/21 - Köln, DE @ Bumann & SOHN
9/22 - Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVendenburg
9/23 - Antwerpt, BL @ Muziekcentrum Trix
9/25 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
9/27 - Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
9/28 - Poznan, PL @ LAB
9/29 - Warsaw, PL @ Klub Hydrozagadka

* = w/ Salami Rose Joe Louis
+ = w/ Babeheaven


MORE ABOUT HOMESHAKE
Unlike most of us, Peter Sagar — also known as Homeshake — was staying at home a lot, long before the pandemic. Sagar wrote the majority of his fifth studio album, Under The Weather, in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. “I was in a deep, deep depression,” he recalls of that time period now. “Tours were breaking me. It was awful.” Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal and while everyone was out being social, he was inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?) “It was a bit of a dark pit,” he says. “That’s kind of what the whole album is about.”

Under The Weather follows Sagar’s life and the depression that consumed him in 2019 — after a brief album intro, it jumps right into “Feel Better”, a reflection on attempting to buck up when the weather outside is grim. The album is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. In “Inaminit”, Sagar cancels plans when he’s feeling low; the closing track, “Tenterhooks”, sees Sagar’s deliverance into the depths of despair: “Feel myself drying up / feel myself turn into dust,” he sings over a funhouse mirror synth. “Oftentimes when you’re in a dark place, you’re supposed to journal and that helps release the pressure,” Sagar says. “For me, it always found its way into the music.”

Capturing the cloudy sound of a depressive funk was no simple feat, especially in the headspace Sagar was in for over a year. For that reason, he decided to enlist his friend, Jerry Paper’s Lucas Nathan, to help with production on the record. Having Nathan contribute helped Sagar dial back some of the “dry, pristine digital sound” that defined his fourth studio album, Helium, and add back personal analog touches that drew people to the Homeshake project in the first place. 

“I didn’t realize how much I missed having a second set of ears. It’s pretty invaluable,” Sagar says. He would send all of the tracks back and forth with Nathan over the course of 2019, which made the process a longer one than he was used to. “There are a lot of things that I probably wouldn't have done that Lucas did do. I would tend to do a lot of softening of things, a lot of making everything super bassy and gentle. Lucas was aware that sometimes you needed some punch and grit.” To Sagar, those additions made the record what it is — a melodic, honest look at personal emotional struggle.

As Sagar releases the record he wrote about feeling isolated, alone, and despondent, it has begun to seem eerily prescient. “People will probably think that I made Under The Weather during or about Covid,” Sagar reflects now. “I was just already living my life that way.” For Sagar, the feelings he experienced over the course of that year are far from over — “I’ve been writing about feeling isolated my whole life,” he says — but with age, he has come to understand them better. “I had a fairly clear idea what the album was going to be like based on where I was emotionally at the time,” he says about Under The Weather. “I just try to make music that is honest about how I’m feeling.”

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UNDER THE WEATHER TRACKLIST
1. Wake Up!
2. Feel Better
3. Vacuum
4. I Know I Know I Know
5. Inaminit
6. Careful
7. Mindless
8. Spend It
9. Half Asleep After the Movies
10. Passenger Seat
11. Tenterhooks
12. Reboot!

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SAM WEBER SHARES NEW SINGLE, ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES WITH BAHAMAS

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Today, celebrated guitarist and songwriter Sam Weber is sharing his first new music since 2019’s Everything Comes True and announcing that he will be supporting Bahamas on a string of tour dates throughout the US this fall. Full tour dates can be found below.

The new single, “Here’s To The Future”, which arrives on all platforms this Friday, is one of those songs "that cuts me right to the core,” says Weber. “Every album cycle brings one song, like a three year cross-section of every complex life moment laid bare in the simplest words. Through confronting my deepest, heaviest truths through these songs I am able to see the world in a new way. 'Here's To The Future’ was that song for me, but also a toast and a prayer to the better and brighter days ahead.”

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MORE ABOUT SAM WEBER
Sam Weber has already logged more miles as a gigging musician than most of his peers will in a lifetime, earning enviable accolades along the way (he was featured in Guitar Player a decade ago, by some accounts the youngest artist ever to grace those pages). He first picked up the guitar at age 12 to form a rock ’n’ roll band with his father and brother in the living room of their family home. 

Sixteen years later, having collaborated with Grammy Award winners and with extensive international tours under his belt, the Canadian-born Los Angeleno goes forth with the same intention and mantra as when he began: “Music is an emotional conduit between people and allows us the opportunity to share moments of truth and unity. In an age where the ritual of music-making can be a solitary exercise, I want to live my life to remind everyone that playing music as a communal and spontaneous practice can be healing and powerful.”

In October 2019, Weber released what he now describes as his only real studio album, Everything Comes True. Though he had released a handful of compelling albums and EPs in the preceding decade, this one distinguished itself because the record was cut live-off-the-floor in the iconic B room at Hollywood’s Ocean Way Studios. From the circular shuffle of "It’s All Happening" to the soaring ramble of "Queen On The Money", Everything Comes True’s expansive range of grooves and emotions stands tall above Weber’s previous offerings. Featuring hallmark musicianship and personnel from the near and far reaches of popular music and the singer-songwriter's imagination, the sometimes nine-piece electric-roots orchestra conjure a brassy and joyful feast of sounds. 

“I was making that record to eulogize my father,” Weber reveals. “He was going through cancer treatment for a long time, and I knew in my heart that [the treatment] would end with a goodbye. More than just the lyrics or the songs, the approach of [Everything Comes True] and the entire process of bringing that record into existence was a celebration of playing together in honour of his memory and legacy as an artist. In some ways, I think [the recording process] helped me grieve him even before he was gone.” Sam’s father, renowned Canadian architect Bill Weber, passed away in June 2019 after a long battle with cancer.

After recording Everything Comes True, things began to move steadily for Sam. More frequent visits to Los Angeles had allowed him to make a name for himself, and he began to form friendships in the music community. He was tapped to contribute to a compilation album alongside Andrew Bird, Blake Mills, Jim James, Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Tim Heidecker, Tony Bennett, Kurt Vile, Jackson Browne, and Matt Berninger (The National). 

“Initially, it was the music scene here that drew me in,” Sam notes. “So many of the albums that meant so much to me growing up came from this place, but when I finally set my feet in town, I was spellbound by everything I saw — especially the architecture. There’s an incredible variety of style and materials. The passage of time is so evident here and it can feel like a ruin. It’s not an old place as far as cities go, but the energy of the people who’ve passed through is enchanting.”

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“Sparkling with production clarity at some moments and humbly gentle in others, Everything Comes True manages to create a nostalgic blend of country and Americana, riding through late nights towards West coast forests all the while.”-  Exclaim!

“[Weber] is an expert tunesmith, brimming with addictive, adventurous and confident pieces. Infused with deep wit and wisdom, Weber’s output is truly impressive. His guitar work is also killer, full of nuance, soul and a truly unique voice.… We’ll be hearing a lot more from Weber in the coming years and, more than likely, decades” - Guitar Player 

 “Some guys can sing. Some guys can play guitar. Some guys can write songs. Some guys know their way around the recording studio. Then there are guys like Sam Weber. [He] can do it all” - Tinnitist 


2021 TOUR DATES WITH BAHAMAS
08/29 - Los Angeles, Ca - Junior High  •º
09/09 - Sisters, Or - The Open Door Wine Bar •
09/11 - Coos Bay, Or - 7 Devils Brewing Company •
09/15 - Missoula. Mt - Free Cycles •
09/16 - Helena, Mt - Lewis And Clark Brewing •
09/17 - Portland, Or - Alberta St. Pub •–
09/19 - Ashland, Or - Grizzly Peak Winery •
10/10 - Brooklyn, Ny - Music Hall Of Williamsburg  §
10/12 - Washington, Dc - 9:30 Club  §
10/13 - Raleigh, Nc - Cat’s Cradle  §
10/14 - Charlotte, Nc - Visulite  §
10/15 - Atlanta, Ga - Variety Playhouse  §
10/16 - Ponte Vedra, Fl - Pvch  §
10/17 - Orlando, Fl - The Social  §
10/18 - Birmingham, Al - Saturn  §
10/20 - St Louis, Mo - Delmar Hall  §
10/21 - Kansas City, Mo - The Truman  §
10/22 - Minneapolis, Mn - First Avenue  §
10/23 - Chicago, Il - The Vic Theater  §
10/24 - Detroit, Mi - Majestic Theater  §
10/02- Louisville, Ky - Headliner’s  §
10/05 - Pittsburgh, Pa - Mr. Smalls  §
10/06 - Holyoak, Ma - Gateway City Arts  §
10/07 - Boston, Ma - House Of Blues  §
10/08 - Philadelphia, Pa - Union Transfer  §
10/09 - New York, Ny - Webster Hall  §

• with mal  
º with Junaco
- with Dakota Theim
§ supporting Bahamas

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