OUGHT ANNOUNCE BREAK UP / NEW BAND, COLA 


NEW BAND, COLA, FROM TIM DARCY & BEN STIDWORTHY, SIGN TO NEXT DOOR RECORDS, SHARE FIRST SINGLE

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DEBUT PERFORMANCE AT LA SALA ROSSA IN MONTREAL ON NOVEMBER 6

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Today, after nearly 9 years as a band and following three critically-acclaimed full lengths, the Montreal post-punk group Ought have announced their break up via the band's Instagram.

You can read their full statement here: 

"We are no longer active as a band. When we started Ought in 2012 we had no greater aspirations than to play and write music together, and the fact that we were able to tour the world to such an extent and share so many rooms with so many of you has meant the world to us.  We send lots of gratitude and love to all those we met and worked with along the way.

Going forward, you can check out Cola, a new project featuring Tim D. and Ben. We'll keep this channel active to share any relevant news from members of the band. - XO"

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 Despite this ending to their earlier creative partnership, Ought's Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy are announcing the formation of a new band called Cola, formed with US Girls drummer Evan Cartwright, and sharing their first single "Blank Curtain". The track provides an exciting hint of the way the new project picks up some of the threads of the pair's earlier work and weaves them into engaging new shapes, constructing a driving tangle of guitars around an arresting performance from Darcy. 

"What started as stripped-down open D songwriting with a CR-78 soon became a full album and new band. We wanted to see how far we could stretch our compositions with just drums, one guitar, one bass, and one voice.

‘Blank Curtain’ is a quarter note kick drum pushing 240 bpm, a drone-like chord progression, and declarative vocals cutting through the haze. If you could invert the color of the ‘Blank Curtain’, you might have something like a Chicago house track that sounds like a band in a room."

To coincide with the single's release the band are announcing their signing to Next Door Records and their live debut which will take place on November 6 at La Sala Rossa in Montreal. A performance in Brooklyn at Baby's All Right on November 16 will follow. 

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MEGAN NASH CELEBRATES LP RELEASE WITH NEW “TABLE FOR ONE” VIDEO

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NEW LP, SOFT FOCUS FUTURES, OUT TODAY VIA ACRONYM RECORDS

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Today, Megan Nash (She / They) is celebrating the release of their new LP, Soft Focus Futures, with a video for album track “Table For One”. “In September 2020, I did a photo shoot with Aaron Sinclair for the album artwork. Artwork for a record that I thought I was done writing,” says Nash. “The photoshoot inspired what ended up acting as the mission statements for the record; ‘Table For One’ and ‘Table For One Reprise’. In June 2021, we returned to Crescent Park in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and filmed a video for the song that the original photoshoot inspired. It’s a beautiful gift when creativity, collaboration, and quiet reflection can work together to expose a little magic, a little truth.”

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MORE ABOUT SOFT FOCUS FUTURES

Throughout their self-produced sophomore album Soft Focus Futures, Megan Nash mines the death of her marriage for clues that could decode its demise and set her on a path toward some sort of stability in self. In the process, they achieve a distillation of heartache and its attendant, all-consuming power that arrives like a 100-year flood in blossoming crescendos buoyed by precise poetry evoking unnatural disasters, the tyranny of silence, old dogs, and the isolation of life in the country. The blue hues, unsteady triumph, and emotional grandeur of Soft Focus Futures earns a spiritual kinship with author Elizabeth Smart’s masterpiece, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, about Smart’s affair with George Barker. “The water submerges and blends, but I am not dead,” Smart writes about grief and love. “O I am not dead. I am under the sea. The entire sea is on top of me.”

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After “Table For One” sets a scene of quiet devastation with a sparse acoustic guitar strum, the slow-building tidal wave of “Artifact” reveals the loneliness of separation’s aftermath: ‘Our love is an island where we used to live,’ Nash sings over the song’s dreamy wash. ‘It was swallowed by the ocean.’ With “My Own Heart”, she seeks a cosmos-sized space in which she’s able to learn to be alone with herself; the more grounded, guitar-fuelled “Coffee” hammers home the less desirable realities of that isolation, like bad dates and the fear that that accompanies being on your own in a creaky old house. With incisive, earthy verse, Nash invokes the particularities of their Prairie home, parsing through childhood memories of her family’s small farm and searching for her place in that lineage with “Another Silent Night”, while using the vernacular of small-town gossip to paint a lonesome rural scene on “Are We Still In Love?” The sonic scope of “Chew Quietly/Clean Slate” looms vast over anxieties about meeting someone new, deploying epic, frenzied breakdowns to communicate inner turmoil. As the curtain closes, Nash is careful to avoid claiming resolution or closure—the nature of those concepts are fickle at best—and instead chooses to let her heart beat out ‘the poisonous rhythm of the truth.’ But the silence lingering in the exhales intertwined at the end of “Table For One (Reprise)” begins to, maybe, carve out space once again for a great flood of love.

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Soft Focus Futures is set to be released on what would’ve been the fourth anniversary of her wedding — November 3, 2021. To build the album’s lush soundscapes, Nash turned to their long-time musical co-conspirators the Best of Intentions, composed of talented multi-instrumentalists Dana Rempel, Darnell Stewart, and Tanner Wilhelm Hale. Additional contributions feature Brady Frank, Dalton Lam, Digawolf, Stacy Tinant, Jenna Nash, Logan Amon, and Megan’s wizened dog Shiloh, to whom she dedicates a poem in the liner notes of the album. Soft Focus Futures was officially engineered by Dana Rempel, but in most cases, because of pandemic restrictions, each contributing player individually recorded their own parts in a collective act of camaraderie that testifies to the closeness of those involved and their faith in the quality of Nash’s work. Despite the distance, Soft Focus Futures is a cohesive creation that sounds as though it was made in the presence of dear friends so close they could breathe on one another. The album was mixed and mastered by Justin Bender at Divergent Sounds Studio.

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Nash, who is non-binary and an unabashed Scorpio - uses both she and they pronouns and lives on Treaty 4 Territory. They’ve won and been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2019 JUNO Award nomination for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for Seeker and a 2021 Best of Moose Jaw Award for Best Musical Artist. The recognition back home is in no small part due to her long and winding history of hitting the road, where she’s done international showcases in the United States, the UK, Germany, and Estonia on top of countless gigs in Canada’s small towns and sprawling metropolises. With everyone’s health top of mind on the touring schedule to come, rest assured you’ll be able to see them—and hear Soft Focus Futures live—the minute she’s able to safely hit your town.

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In the meantime fans in Saskatchewan can catch Megan performing on the dates below.:

November 26th - Regina, Saskatchewan - The Exchange - Tickets
November 27th - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Amigos - Tickets 
March 19th - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - Mae Wilson Theatre - Tickets

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SOFT FOCUS FUTURES TRACKLIST
01 Table For One
02 Artifact
03 Quiet
04 My Own Heart
05 Coffee
06 Another Silent Night
07 Chew Quietly / Clean Slate
08 Room 804
09 Are We Still In Love?
10 Table For One Reprise

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TERRA LIGHTFOOT SHARES HER TAKE ON A HOLIDAY CLASSIC

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Today, celebrated songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot is sharing her rendition of the holiday classic “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”. The song was originally written for Judy Garland to sing in 1944’s ‘Meet Me In St Louis’, “but I guess the first version they submitted was literally too sad for her to sing, they had to rewrite it,” says Lightfoot. “I think it's tough sometimes to put on a happy face when everything seems to be crumbling around you, and so I delved headfirst into that feeling and let myself get sad as hell when I recorded this one.”

During the pandemic, Lightfoot uprooted and moved a few hours north of her former home in Hamilton. “Our growing season is shorter, it's colder, and there's so much snow and coniferous trees everywhere, it's basically the ultimate winter hideaway. Anyway I had James McKenty (who records a lot of Greg Keelor and Blue Rodeo stuff) over to my house and he set up a studio in my living room. There are windows all across the back of the house looking onto a beautiful meadow and ponds and marshland. So that's what I was staring at while I was singing this song. I hope that a little bit of peace and tranquility comes across for the listener; that, and the fact that if things are really messed up right now for anybody, that it's okay to be sad about it.” 

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MORE ABOUT CONSIDER THE SPEED
Strong, sure-footed and soulful, Terra Lightfoot's latest album Consider the Speed sees the artist finding new roots on the road, and at home in her own skin more than ever before. On this Memphis-recorded session, the acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist is in top form, backed by seasoned session ringers and captured by Grammy Award winning producer Jay Newland and Grammy Award winning engineer Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell.

Consider the Speed is a next-level progression from Lightfoot’s 2017 album New Mistakes. That album was long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize and nominated for a JUNO Award for Best Adult Alternative Album, with its lead single “Paradise” also earning a production nomination as well as a SOCAN #1 Song Award. 

The artist’s relentless drive as a touring performer has burned out at least one odometer and earned her the distinction of becoming the first female recipient of the Canadian Independent Music Association’s Road Gold distinction, in recognition of having sold more than 25,000 tickets in Canadian markets in a single calendar year. And in addition to millions of miles logged while touring the globe, including marquee tour dates supporting legendary acts like Willie Nelson, Bruce Cockburn, and Blue Rodeo, Lightfoot also found time to conceive, curate and produce The Longest Road Show, a ground-breaking touring revue. 

PRAISE FOR TERRA LIGHTFOOT

"One of Canada's best all-around musicians... an amazing tour de force, the complete package" – Grant Lawrence, CBC Music 

“Canada’s Terra Lightfoot has a huge voice and a big and gutsy guitar tone to match” - Guitar Player 

“One of today’s brightest emerging rock artists” - Twangville

“Drawing from rock, soul & blues, Terra Lightfoot is a monster talent that will be gracing the world’s largest festival stages in no time” - PopMatters

 “Ms. Lightfoot’s voice is a dominant as ever, straddling Memphis soul and urban blues with ease” - No Depression

"With a stunning command of songwriting and musical composition, paired with an absolutely intoxicating voice and her signature Gibson SG, Terra Lightfoot delivers a powerful mix of folk, alt-country and flat-out rock" – Tone Deaf (Australia)

"Perfectly suited for stadium-sized crowds to sing along to… without sacrificing the nuance or creativity that were hallmarks of her prior albums"– Exclaim!

“A masterful balance of hard riffs, heart-wrenching ballads, and soaring choruses" – The Record


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