NIALL MUTTER NEW EP OUT TODAY, SHARES TITLE TRACK

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Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Niall Mutter is releasing his new, Pass Me By (Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys) and is sharing the album’s title track. The last song written and recorded for the collection, “its a farewell to a previous iteration of myself,” says Mutter. “Time is always moving and I found myself questioning how I evolved in its passing. People make mistakes, but ultimately we are the hardest on ourselves.”

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Written over the course of a year, Mutter says “I had moved to Montréal on a whim, couch surfing between friends and a new lover. Pass Me By is about finding levity in a period of transition. It’s about pain and self assessment, and submitting to things being a bit wacky and out of my control.”

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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 disheveled 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. 

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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PASS ME BY TRACKLIST
01 Maybe
02 A Love That Fits
03 I Wonder
04 You
05 Pass Me By

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KEN YATES ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES FIRST SINGLE FT. KATHLEEN EDWARDS

NEW ALBUM, CERULEAN, DUE OUT JUNE 3, 2022

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"Ken has earned a strong reputation as a bona-fide composer who combines his emotionally charged storytelling with some incredible and unforgettable melodies.” - Great Dark Wonder

"..offers a refuge of soft-spoken sanity and, amid all the raised voices, Ken Yates’ is one that definitely deserves to be heard." - RGM

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Today, quietly resolute singer-songwriter Ken Yates announces his transcendent new album, Cerulean, due out June 3, 2022. The announcement arrives along with a soothing new single and video for album opener “The Big One” featuring Kathleen Edwards. 

"The Big One" is a touching apocalyptic lullaby where Yates softly sings, ‘Don’t worry baby, if we’re caught in the swell / We’ll be there together for better or for well / When the sky is falling I won’t turn and run / I’ll be holding your hand when the big one comes.’ 

The track acts as a place of refuge, and is a tender reminder to keep your loved ones close as life can change in the blink of an eye. Yates says, "believe it or not, this song was written before the pandemic. I was traveling in the Pacific Northwest with someone who was constantly mentioning the Cascadian Subduction Zone, a fault line predicted to cause a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami, also known as ‘The Big One’. Yates continues, as he reckons with life's fragility, "I couldn’t stop thinking about how entire societies of people live there with the knowledge it’s going to happen at some point, and when it does, they’re totally fucked. There’s something poetic about that acceptance. It was the first song I wrote for this album and it certainly opened the door to digging deeper into inner struggles for me. It was almost a thought of how it’s easier to distract yourself with the end of the world rather than face your own feelings." 

The DIY video, shot on Yates' iPhone, finds the musician amidst lockdown accompanied by his dog, as they forge into the rivers and forests of Ontario, Canada. The nature-filled visual evokes the same warmth and comfort that the track so effortlessly provides.

Yates explains, "I would take my dog for a walk by the river early every morning and hardly ever see anyone. There were days when it truly felt we were alone on this earth," Yates adds. "The song is about riding out the last few moments of the apocalypse with someone you love, so I thought it would be funny to make a b-side movie where my dog and I are the last two beings on the planet. I found an old raincoat and started filming myself in ridiculous survival situations in the woods. It turned out my dog Joni was a natural on camera. I also loved the idea that I would bring my capo to the apocalypse."

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MORE ABOUT KEN YATES & CERULEAN
Over the last decade, Ken Yates has solidified himself as a prolific musician, combining heartfelt lyricism, genuine authenticity and hypnotic guitar strums. After studying at the Berklee College of Music, Yates released The Backseat EP in 2011, followed by his full-length debut Twenty-Three in 2013. He won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away" and released his second album, Huntsville, in 2016, produced by Jim Bryson. By 2017, Yates was making waves in folk with his poignant songwriting, winning the awards for Canadian Folk Music Award for both Songwriter of the Year and New Artist of the Year. 

Now, with a fresh perspective and renewed sense of self, Yates brings honesty, growth and profound peace to his latest work, Cerulean. Nonetheless, Cerulean feels like a hard reset on Yates’ art and artistry. Reuniting with producer Jim Bryson, the album firmly steps into indie folk and alternative territories – he cites Big Thief, Andy Shauf, and The War On Drugs as a few of his inspirations.

Cerulean meets Yates at his darkest and most vulnerable, as he transforms the pain of grief, fear and loss into an 11-track quest towards hope, light and peace. A crucial vehicle out of the depths of darkness and bitterness for Yates, Cerulean serves as a powerful reemergence filled with his signature remarkable vocal intimacy as well as a profound yet candid peak into the universal human experience.

In May 2020, Yates released his third album, Quiet Talkers, which was met with high praise from tastemakers like Atwood Magazine, who wrote the album's track, "Surviving is Easy" is "an earnest, heartfelt rendering of everyday struggle." Praise also has come in the form of a co-sign from fellow musician John Mayer who said, “Want to hear a great song? I mean a REALLY great song? Ken Yates wrote a tune called “I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love” and posted a live video of it on YouTube. This song moved me when I first heard it and it still does today.”

Read Ken Yates’ full biography by Mitch Mosk at : www.killbeatmusic.com/kenyates

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CERULEAN TRACKLIST
01. The Big One (feat. Kathleen Edwards)
02. The Future Is Dead 
03. Don’t Mean To Wake You (feat. Stephanie Lambring)
04. Consolation Prize (feat. Katie Pruitt)
05. Small Doses
06. Best Of The Broken Things 
07. Honest Light (feat. Caroline Marie Brooks) 
08. Half Clenched Teeth 
09. Good Things (feat. Liz Longley) 
10. Grocery Store 
11. Cerulean 

KEN YATES LIVE
June 19 - Smith's Falls, ON - Bowie’s
June 19 - London, ON - Aeolian Hall
June 25 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware w/ Abigail Lapell 
June 27 - Londonderry, ON - Concerts on the Common 

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*** More dates will be announced soon ***

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OURI SHARES JACQUES GREENE REMIX OF “HIGH & CHOKING PT.1”

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Released last year, Ouri’s (Ourielle Auvé) Frame of a Fauna takes the Canadian artist's knowledge of big orchestral sound, and creates her own fusion. Today, she reveals the Jacques Greene remix of album standout track, “High & Choking Pt. 1”. “Having Jacques Greene remix one of my tracks was a dream,” says Ouri. “I remember his music being my main soundtrack while taking the metro to the conservatory in France, right before I moved to Montreal. It feels so good to hear ‘High & Choking Pt. 1’ through the JG filter.”

Jacques Greene adds “Whenever people ask me of artists from Montreal that excite and inspire me, Ouri is at the top of the pile. Shape-shifting and always breaking new ground. Frame of a Fauna is an amazing album I've come back to often. It was a joy to be asked to remix High & Choking, pt 1. For a hazed out loft in Chabanel.“

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Recently, the Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and producer announced her first offering of 2022 with the project bt002: self hypnosis tape. The 7-track project is meditative and ambient in nature, with piano-driven instrumentals from Zach Frampton showing off a different side of Ouri's abilities for something more improvisational.

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bt002: self hypnosis tape arrived right on the heels of Frame of a Fauna, which finds Ouri exploring the cycle of birth, death, and constant rebirth; transcending through the creation of this album, as she explores what lies inside the lining of the big dharma wheel: trauma, control and vulnerability. 

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Last year Ouri also released a joint project with Helena Deland, Hildegard, which received widespread critical acclaim with Pitchfork praising the collaboration as "pure creative symbiosis" and The FADER describing as, "a hypnotic composition that ebbs in and out of darkness, mining strength in synchronicity."

Known professionally as Ouri, Auvé grew up in France and moved to Montreal at the age of 16 with dreams of becoming a composer. As Ouri developed her compositional ability, as well as her production and vocal chops, she integrated herself with late-night DJ sets in Montreal's underground rave scene and was eventually selected to take part in Red Bull Music Academy's Montreal Bass Camp. From there, her profile began to grow as she headlined Boiler Room's Montreal showcase, toured with the likes of Yves Tumor and Jacques Greene, released her first EPs Superficial and We Share Our Blood, and collaborated with fellow Montreal artist Helena Deland on the interdimensional Hildegard.

Read more about Ouri at : www.killbeatmusic.com/ouri

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TOUR DATES
3/12 - Montreal, Mutek @ Winter Series, Club Soda ^
3/23 - New York, NY @ Public Records
4/9 - Durham, NC @ Brickside Festival
4/28 - Copenhagen, DK @ Rust
4/30 - Manchester, UK @ Mood Swings @ Yes
5/1 - Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botaniques
5/2 - London, UK @ Oslo
5/6 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire
^ = with Smerz

PRAISE FOR OURI

"effortless and sublime" - PAPER Magazine

"a richly rewarding left turn" -The FADER

“Frame of a Fauna presents a compelling archive of Ouri's many musical personas. It's a nuanced encapsulation of her sound from underground DJ to fully-rounded composer. “ Exclaim!

"a master at crafting synth soundscapes that flow with ease and unexpectedly morph and shapeshift over the course of the track while grounding it all with her own airy vocals." - CBC Music

"expertly guides listeners through a narrative of anticipation, climax and release" - Office Magazine

"equal parts comforting and transcendent" - V Magazine

"dials in swooping sounds, echoey vocal syllables, a glitchy beat, tentative chords; the dance beat solidifies, falls away and reappears" - The New York Times

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