GEORGIA HARMER REVEALS ANOTHER NEW SINGLE, “AUSTIN”

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Toronto-based singer-songwriter Georgia Harmer, Arts & Crafts newest signee, unveils a standout new single, “Austin”. With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer pens songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge incredible bonds. This was first presented in “Headrush”, a track that encapsulated the melancholy of late summer spent with friends. Today’s dusty, grungy “Austin” recalls a day on tour with Alessia Cara in Texas, when a homesick Harmer felt particularly connected to her father and his own experiences as a touring musician. The scorching lead guitar from Harmer’s father, Gord Tough (Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Harmer), amplifies her expressive voice: ‘We were cowboys in another life / But I am you, your other life is mine / Often when I speak to you I cry / Never can explain the reason why’. 

 "Back in 2018, when I was on the road with Alessia Cara, we went to Austin, Texas, and my dad recommended we go to this barbecue spot he had been to when he was touring there,” elaborates Harmer. “We had a day or two off to explore, so we went. I thought of my dad while I was there, and often when I was on the road, because he's also a touring musician - we’re very similar and we're very close. I wrote this song to articulate the significance and importance of our relationship, how much I love and admire him, and our many parallels."

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 Harmer has been making music practically since birth. She hails from an artistic family, including her aunt and labelmate Sarah Harmer (Georgia’s parents, both professional musicians, met while playing in Sarah’s band). Harmer started recording her own songs at 10 and, while still a teenager, hit the road as a backing vocalist for Alessia Cara, touring for months on end. Her striking voice is a cross-hatching of Joni Mitchell’s birdsong, the emotional vulnerability of Adrianne Lenker and the seductive tones of Hope Sandoval.

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PUP ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO FOR “ROBOT WRITES A LOVE SONG”

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Today, PUP — comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski — announce their incredible, ambitious and aptly titled fourth album, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, out April 1. THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND was recorded and mixed over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2021, in GRAMMY Award winning producer Peter Katis’ bat-filled mansion in Connecticut. Full of typically furious, ridiculous, and anthemic songs, the recording process allowed PUP to push themselves further than ever before. With more time in the studio, they were able to craft their songs sonically in a way they were unable to in the past, and allowed themselves to incorporate new instruments like piano, synths, horns, and more for the first time. Though made in madness-inducing isolation (aside from Peter and the bats, of course), PUP were remotely joined on the album by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties), Kathryn McCauhey (NOBRO), Mel St. Pierre (Casper Skulls), and Erik Paulson (Remo Drive). The result is not just the next PUP record, but the *most* PUP record.

Recently, PUP released “Waiting”, which will appear on THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, upon announcing their forthcoming tour a few weeks ago. Now the band is sharing another new single and music video from the album for “Robot Writes A Love Song”. Written in 15 minutes and with vocals recorded in the backseat of Stefan’s car, “Robot Writes A Love Song” dissolves into a wash of nervous vocals before becoming what is surely the most emotional song ever written from the perspective of a computer being overwhelmed unto death by actual human emotions. Check out the song and ingenious Whitey McConnaughy-directed music video.

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MORE ABOUT THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND:
PUP released Morbid Stuff in 2019 to critical acclaim, earning countless year-end nods from the likes of Pitchfork and NPR, their late-night debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the JUNO Award for Alternative Album of The Year, the short list for the Polaris Music Prize, and sold-out shows across the globe. Two years later, they spent a few weeks in the Summer of 2021 in a mansion in Connecticut with Peter Katis (Interpol, Kurt Vile, The National) to record and mix their new record, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND.

The band more or less never left. When they got comfortable in their strange new home, the (figurative) walls came down. “As the weeks passed, we seemed less and less rational, objective, and sane,” Babcock says. “You can hear the band start to fall off the cliff, and because of that, I think this record is our truest and most genuine to date. There is nothing more PUP than a slow and inevitable descent into self-destruction.” 

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Every PUP record arrives with an implied “contents under pressure” warning; the tension between the band’s instinct for the melodic and its gift for chaos propels the songs forward while making them also seem close to flying apart in a horrifying spray of tears and gore. THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is the sound of a band that is not just comfortable with but in command of that chaos. “There’s only so many times you can write a song about how much you hate yourself before you write a song about how fucking good you are at hating yourself,” Babcock says. “I wanted to write about the horrible state of the world, but through a very specific and personal lens. It’s a lot of me trying to articulate my own coping with existential dread, hopelessness, and what I’ve called ‘Grim Reaping’—which is to me, the idea that we are all reaping what we sow, and right now we’re sowing some pretty fucked up shit.”

THE UNRAVELING is not a departure from what got PUP here, really; for all the new breadth, this is still very much the fourth album by the band that has spun songs about The Bad Decisions Lifestyle into scrappy art. The hooks are as bright and barbed as always; the poison threaded through every song is no less potent. But a fourth album should be different from the first, or even the third, and THE UNRAVELING is. “I don’t know that we set out to do new stuff,” Mykula says, of a record on which the band does a great deal of new stuff. “It’s just a band trying to sound as much like themselves as possible. Every record you make, you get closer to that.” 

THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND is that next step—not towards perfection, or even towards some more perfect version of writing songs about fucking up, but just in the direction of its choice. It’s a product of this endless awful broader moment, but also very much a step forward into that uncertainty. “The whole album process really brought us closer together, even as things unraveled,” Babcock says. “It’s hands down my favourite PUP record, and I don’t think it could’ve been made under any other circumstances.” 

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THE UNRAVELLING OF PUPTHEBAND TRACKLIST
01 Four Chords 
02 Totally Fine
03 Robot Writes A Love Song
04 Matilda
05 Relentless
06 Four Chords Pt. II: Five Chords
07 Waiting
08 Habits
09 Cutting Off The Corners
10 Grim Reaping
11 Four Chords Pt. III: Diminishing Returns
12 PUPTHEBAND Inc. Is Filing For Bankruptcy

2022 TOUR DATES
2/7/22 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre #
2/8/22 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre #
2/10/22 - Calgary, AB - Big Four #
2/11/22 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Convention Centre #
2/14/22 - Vancouver, BC - PNE Forum #
3/27/22 - Hamilton, ON - Bridgeworks 
3/28/22 - Kingston, ON - The Ale House 
3/29/22 - Peterborough, ON - The Venue 
4/1/22 - Pittsburgh, PA - Roxian Theatre ^ *
4/2/22 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall ^ *
4/3/22 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre ^ *
4/5/22 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fillmore ^ *
4/8/22 - Victoria, BC - Capital Ballroom ^ 
4/9/22 - Victoria, BC - Capital Ballroom ^ 
4/10/22 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo ^ 
4/11/22 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom ^ +
4/15/22 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music and Arts Festival
4/22/22 - Indio, CA - Coachella Music and Arts Festival
4/16/22 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren ^ +
4/24/22 - Denver, CO - The Ogden Theatre ^ +
4/27/22 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater ^ +
4/28/22 - Houston, TX - House of Blues ^ +
4/29/22 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater ^ +
5/1/22 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Music Festival
5/3/22 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel ^ +
5/4/22 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz ^ +
5/5/22 - Richmond, VA - The National ^ +
5/6/22 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall ^ +
5/7/22 - Washington, DC - The Fillmore Silver Spring ^ +
5/9/22 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom ^ +
5/10/22 - Boston, MA - House of Blues ^ +
5/11/22 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 ^ +
5/13/22 - Montreal, QC - MTelus ^ +
5/14/22 - Toronto, ON - History ^ +
5/15/22 - Toronto, ON - History ^ +
7/8/22 - Cheltenham, UK - 2000trees Festival
7/23/22 - Byron Bay, Australia - Splendour in the Grass
8/24/22 - 8/27/22 - Málaga, Spain - Canela Party Festival

# with Billy Talent & NOBRO
^ with support from Pinkshift
* with support from Cloud Nothings
+ with support from Sheer Mag

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NIALL MUTTER SHARES NEW SINGLE, “I WONDER”

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Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Niall Mutter is sharing his first new music of the new year courtesy of Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. “I Wonder” comes from “the mystery that can be in someone else’s head and living in the ambiguity of it,” says Mutter. “It’s a calling for lighter moods and, in the moment it was written, was really premised on offering support to someone special. As the title eludes to, we are all inevitably left wondering what that someone is thinking." 

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Niall has spent most of his life oscillating between the seasons, tree planting in the Canadian bush in the summer and escaping to the mountains out West for the winter. When a friend invited him out to Quebec for a couple weeks, he pulled into Montreal’s tightly knit music community and never left. Couch surfing in the middle of a raging pandemic gave him the instability and dishevelled edge he needed to bring his songwriting hiatus to an end, finishing and releasing his first single ‘You’ — a disco-shimmered summer love song that was immediately well received. 

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His country roots inspire his minimalist production style and narrative lyricism, while his desire for transience adds an almost undetectable sentiment to his dreamy beached-out vocals. He brings a floaty dance trance to his states of confusion, teasing out his lover’s quarrels with a sonic harmony, sculpting the inbetween as a comfortable resting space for himself, often rocking unsureness like a trusted pair of boots.

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