MOTHLAND SIGNS SUNGLACIERS, SHARE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO FOR “DRAW ME IN”

CALGARY NEO-PSYCHEDELIC OUTFIT SUNGLACIERS SIGN TO MOTHLAND, SHARE NEW SINGLE CO-PRODUCED WITH CHAD VAN GAALEN

WATCH AND SHARE “DRAW ME IN” HERE

BUY / STREAM “DRAW ME IN” HERE

FALL TOUR DATES CONTINUE OCTOBER 7, 2021

Photo Credit : Haley Gunn // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Like their name might suggest, Sunglaciers’ music blurs the boundaries between dazzling indie-rock melodicism and icy post-punk experimentation. Today, the Calgary based outfit is excited to announce they’ll be joining Mothland and they are sharing the new single and video for “Draw Me In”, co-produced with Chad Van Gaalen.

“Draw Me In” candidly walks the talk, as a sputtering MGMT-inspired dance beat propels singer Evan Resnik’s vulnerable lyrics about untying the noose of depression during his darkest days.

For the accompanying video, director Anthony Lucero says, "I went with the direction I did because the sound and spatial structure of the song was very fluid and encompassing. I found that when messing around with machine learning that flowers and daisies really fit the nature and energy of the song better than anything else could."



WATCH AND SHARE “DRAW ME IN” HERE
BUY / STREAM “DRAW ME IN” HERE

“Draw Me In” Single Artwork // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Sunglaciers initially came together in 2017 as a collaboration between Mathieu Blanchard and Evan Resnik, both of whom handle an array of instruments.

The past five years have found them steadily growing in popularity, sharing stages with acts such as Omni, Preoccupations, and Daniel Romano, while topping the charts of campus radio stations in Western Canada, following the releases of a debut full-length, Foreign Bodies, as well as a couple of EPs.

After recent performances in B.C. and Alberta, Sunglaciers will embark on a run of dates that will see them fly east to the U.K., and also take part in Mothland's event at Sala Rossa during M for Montreal. Full tour dates can be found below.

TOUR DATES
Oct 7 - Wrexham UK @ Wynnstay Arms Hotel - FOCUS Wales Festival
Oct 9 - Wrexham UK @ The Parish - FOCUS Wales Festival
Oct 10 - Newcastle UK @ Tyne Bar
Oct 11 - TBD
Oct 12 - Liverpool UK @ Kazimier Stockroom 
Oct 13 - Manchester UK @ Peer Hat
Oct 14 - London UK @ Waiting Room
Oct 15 - Brighton UK @ Latest Music Bar
Oct 16 - Bristol UK @ The Lanes
Oct 20 - Toronto ON @ Monarch Tavern w/ Motorists, Raymans
Oct 22 - Montréal QC @ l'Hémisphère Gauche
Nov 6 - Edmonton TBA
Nov 13 - Calgary TBA
Nov 19 - Montréal @ Sala Rossa - M pour Mothland

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COTS EXPLORES THE LANGUAGE OF PHYSICS IN  “OUR BREATH” 3D ANIMATION

STEPH YATES JOINS TIM BAKER ON OCTOBER ONTARIO TOUR

DISTURBING BODY IS OUT NOW ON BOILED RECORDS

WATCH "OUR BREATH" HERE

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"A fascinating English language affair which evokes both the sophistication of Everything But The Girl's Eden and the sadness of Portuguese fado" - MOJO

"Cots leans into gentleness” - Exclaim!

"Closeness and intimacy shine through on Cots' richly haunting debut"  - The Line of Best Fit

"Nocturnal, pensive, and melancholic" - Atwood

Disturbing Body, the intimate debut album by Cots, paints a celestial portrait of lost love and consequence. “Evoking strong memories of Feist’s Let It Die-era softness,” CBC Music remarked that “Disturbing Body feels like a meditation on loneliness and the complexities of the heart … a secret told from Cots to you only. The solo project of Montreal/Guelph composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates blends elements of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical against a cosmic backdrop – connecting earthbound romance to the gravitational pull of planets. 

On album centrepiece “Our Breath,” her oblique poetry suggests the mystery of a secret hymn, of “a person carrying with them what they need and finding access to it in difficult moments,” Yates said. Released today, the song’s 3D animated music video by director Jenn E. Norton articulates this emotional stealthiness, merging a blob-like Yates into a gelatinous otherworldly landscape of oil-slicked swans and lightning bolt fractals. Norton’s video spotlights the album’s nocturnal, experimental palette, showcasing producer Sandro Perri’s enclosed use of space, a subtle warble on Yates’s rich vocals, her nylon guitar flooded, just barely, with distortion and flanged hand drums. 

WATCH "OUR BREATH" HERE

Norton says: I love that Cots draws upon the language of physics to look at relationships. Theoretical physicist David Bohm once said that thought was a material process, a subtle movement of matter travelling through minds via neurons and synapses. “[…]there is no sharp division between thought, emotion and matter. You see that they flow into each other.” When I listen to Cots’s album Disturbing Body, I get a sense of an in-betweenness, becoming and unravelling in the lyrical ruminations. I wanted to represent this in a viscous, gooey state in which everything is permeable, where thoughts rippled and melted in and out of shape.   

Sparked by her fascination with mathematics' vast poetic potential, and the power of celestial mechanics, Disturbing Body explores the unexplainable interactions of interstellar bodies and human beings alike. The title – inspired by the phrase for a planet whose gravitational pull alters another planet's course – speaks similarly to the disruptive nature of love. 

“I find it strange, unsettling, mysterious; how incalculable the experience of feeling drawn to someone is,” Yates says. “Human bodies are like celestial ones; just as a planet’s course is carved out in relation to others, our course - where we go and what we do - is compelled by forces of attraction.”

LISTEN / BUY DISTURBING BODY HERE

Disturbing Body found its rhythm over four cosy days in Guelph at The Cottage studio, run by Canadian veteran recording artist and engineer Scott Merritt. The result saw her crystalline vocals and intricate guitar entwined with Perri’s atmospheric arrangements for Blake Howard (percussion), Josh Cole (bass guitar), Ryan Brouwer (trumpet), Karen Ng (saxophone), Thomas Hammerton (keyboards), and Perri himself (synths, samples, field recordings). 

Across Disturbing Body’s disparate touchpoints and searching melodies – somewhere between the stars and earthly interactions alike – Cots intersects, and starts to make a whole lot of sense. “A cot is a solitary, introspective, and dreamy space. It’s temporary too, suggesting liminality, moving on, passing through. It’s something you leave behind.” 

WATCH “FLOWERS” HERE

Disturbing Body is out now via Boiled Records on vinyl and digital formats. Cots will join Canadian singer-songwriter Tim Baker on a string of dates through Ontario this month. See full itinerary beginning tomorrow, below.

ALBUM ARTWORK // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

DISTURBING BODY TRACKLIST
1. Disturbing Body
2. Bitter Part of the Fruit
3. Sun-Spotted Apple
4. Bluebird
5. Inertia of a Dream
6. Flowers
7. Salt or Sand
8. Our Breath
9. Last Sip
10. Midnight at the Station

Photo Credit: JG+Shi // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

TOUR DATES w/ TIM BAKER
Oct 7 - Prince Edward County, Ontario - The Eddie
Oct 8 - Burnstown, Ontario - Neat Café
Oct 12 - London, Ontario - House Show
Oct 14 - Stratford, Ontario - Revival House
Oct 15 - Beamsville, Ontario - Redstone Winery

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