ABIGAIL LAPELL REVEALS NEW VIDEO FOR “OLD FLAMES”

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“Dealing in the themes of recovery, loss and love, Lapell's latest is the new generation's heart-rending answer to Tapestry's call.” Exclaim! 

“...sounds quite timeless, as if all the songs could have been recorded yesterday or decades ago.”  Americana UK

“…an emotionally complex set, a sequence that addresses an assortment of difficult subjects, energized throughout by Lapell’s sober yet deeply expressive voice. …a mix of ballads, odes, and arresting vignettes.” No Depression

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Today, Abigail Lapell is sharing the new video for “Old Flames”. Taken from her 2022 album, Stolen Time, the song reflects the push and pull of a smouldering, on-again-off-again romance, with fiery imagery that draws from and deconstructs love song tropes and clichés. 

"The idea for the video was to create something that felt like a short film exploring addiction and recovery,” says Lapell. “The song uses all this fiery love-song imagery to look at the different faces of codependency and addiction. So we started talking about how to bring those concepts to life visually. Spencer and Jordan came up with the idea of the monster, something that's part of you but also kind of separate. Ultimately, in the video, we see that different people have different kinds of monsters – thanks to the incredible and thoughtful creature design, which was maybe my favourite part of this project. To me, it's a story about learning to live with your demons, literally and figuratively."

Directors Spencer Ryan and Jordan Hamer (aka Fugitives) add they “were really excited when Abigail approached us to work on ‘Old Flames’. It was our first music video, and starting with a song that has such a strong concept behind it made writing the piece even more important and meaningful to us. Everyone involved brought incredible passion and enthusiasm to the project, which helped us push the visuals and stylistic choices higher than we thought possible. We’re really proud of the video, and so happy to have been able to collaborate with Abigail on it."

Ryan and Hamer are two directors at creative agency Broken Heart Love Affair in Toronto. Their work has been awarded Grand Prix or Gold for creativity in nearly every international and local advertising award show. "Old Flames" is their first music video. The music video was created thanks to the generous support of the MVP Project, a joint initiative of RBCxMusic and the Prism Prize (administered by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television).”

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MORE ABOUT ABIGAIL LAPELL
Over the past decade and three spellbinding albums, Lapell has garnered two Canadian Folk Music Awards (English Songwriter of the Year in 2020 and Contemporary Album of the Year in 2017), hit number one on Canadian folk radio, and accrued a staggering 13 million+ Spotify streams while touring widely across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. 

Her latest LP, Stolen Time, out now via Outside Music, strikes a fine balance between her hushed acoustic debut, Great Survivor, and her two rockier, Chris Stringer produced records, Hide Nor Hair and Getaway. Stolen Time brings a live-off-the-floor 70s folk-rock vibe with more structural experimentation to the table on songs that feel expansive in their scope; unhurried, psychedelic, and other-worldly. 

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TOUR DATES
Feb 9 - Calgary, AB - Block Heater Festival
Feb 10 - Red Deer, AB - The Velvet Olive
Apr 1-2 - Vancouver, BC - Can. Folk Music Awards ShowcaseSt James Community Square 
Apr 12 - Campbell River, BC - Highway 19
April 13-14 - New Westminster, BC - Pacific Contact showcase
May 5 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
May 12 - Ottawa, ON - National Arts Center
May 18 - Toronto, ON - The Baby G

More tour dates TBC https://abigaillapell.com/tour

PRAISE FOR ABIGAIL LAPELL

"If you're into classic folk like Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny, you should check out this gorgeous new album." - BrooklynVegan

“Lapell’s latest sees her follow further in a folk-rock direction, taking full advantage of her band’s explosive live chemistry.” - Under The Radar

“Stripped-down beauty.” - FLOOD

“Abigail Lapell may be the best folk artist you haven't yet discovered.” - KUTX

“Abigail Lapell’s music recalls that of those 1960s folk-rock Canadian troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot.” - PopMatters

“It’s certainly no minor feat when an artist wins English Songwriter of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, enraptures throngs of concertgoers at Americanafest in Nashville – and converts yet more new fans while traipsing through Europe. But somehow Lapell has managed to do exactly that.” - Big Takeover

“Lapell excels at weaving gorgeous sonic tapestries.” - The Boot

“Simple but mesmerizing” - Glide

“An exceptional piece of music.” - Ear To The Ground

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EDWIN RAPHAEL SHARES “DECEIVE ME SO EASY” FROM UPCOMING LP

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Recently, Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-born, Montreal-based songwriter, announced his upcoming LP, Warm Terracotta, and shared album singles “Tripping Through My Blood” and "Under Weather”. Today, he shares "Deceive Me So Easy”, a song which “portrays itself as a theatre performance,” says Raphael. “The dance is constant, an ode to everyday life, interweaving itself within the problems of the actors and audience. The protagonist enters the stage with nothing, unaware of the beauty of the dance itself, they are consumed by fleeting burdens of human life. They exit the stage as they entered, with nothing."


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MORE ABOUT WARM TERRACOTTA
How do you anchor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, it requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop canon, Raphael reimagines his music as a exploratory tool that allows him to construct an interior and sacred home to retreat into. 

Where his past projects found inspiration in the metaphorical potential of water, his forthcoming album Warm Terracotta walks deeper into the island after standing on the shore. On Edwin Raphael’s most intimate and ambitious project to date, he grapples with the realization of being a foreigner everywhere; of longing to know your ancestral roots, while also honouring the home you’ve built for yourself. Both spacious and pulsating, the album is inspired by Indian classical music, experimental psychedelic folk, and spacey 80s pop; at times, conjuring the lower-jaw tingle of grass between your toes, or the sun-soaked splendour of late afternoon ragas. In Raphael’s own words, the album is an antidote: “one that swallows you into forgetting your present troubles, while also painting a world you can escape into — and keep coming back to.” 

Raphael continues, “Warm Terracotta represents a sacred space to find yourselves over and over again. Fourteen songs that bring forward the duality and complexity of simply being. It trusts that when you do things from your soul, you feel a river move within you.

“It’s about balancing the good with the bad. It’s encountering a landscape that is completely surreal to you but also the closest thing to home. This project involves the arch of self-realization & leans on the generosity of the unexpected. It is a space for thoughts, discovery and new connections.”

WATCH / SHARE “UNDER WEATHER” HERE FT. ELENI DRAKE

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MORE ABOUT EDWIN RAPHAEL
Growing up in Dubai, as the son of parents who immigrated from the city of Cochin in India’s coastal Kerala state, Raphael studied classical guitar before deciding on the keys. As he developed an affinity for John Mayer and Ben Howard, he felt at odds with Dubai’s distinct sense of “placelessness” — and the bewildering feeling of being immersed in a culture where everyone claimed an alternate homeland. It wasn’t until he moved to Montreal to pursue a business degree that he felt a sense of stability, and became deeply entangled with the city’s indie bedroom pop scene.

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His debut EP Ocean’s Walk (2015) paired stirring, melancholic instrumentals with a fierce self-reckoning. It would set the stage for a string of releases that would dive deeper into the psyche; like confronting the aftershocks following a significant heartbreak, or relearning your emotional baseline as you mature. Subsequent releases, Cold Nights (2017), his acclaimed debut Will You Think of Me Later? (2019), and its follow up Staring at Ceilings (2021), reveal an artist devoted to sharpening his ability to translate his experiences into ubiquitous statements, and saw him open for Hollow Coves, JP Saxe, Noah Kahan. 

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EDWIN RAPHAEL TOUR DATES
03/14 - Montreal, QC @ Le Ritz  *
03/15 - Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground *
* = supporting ¿Téo?

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WARM TERRACOTTA TRACK LIST
01 - Desire Paths~
02 - & She Drinks Tea Just For The Company
03 - Have You Been Told?
04 - Under Weather (feat. Eleni Drake)
05 - Contours Of Spring
06 - Sights Like These
07 - Hate It When You See Me Like This!
08 - Tripping Through My Blood
09 - Deceive Me So Easy
10 - Tea Break~
11 - Bazaar Days
12 - Purple Inside
13 - Homesick For The Place I Don’t Even Know (feat. Sam Valdez)
14 - Sirimiri

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DEBBY FRIDAY SHARES OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “I GOT IT FEAT. UÑAS”  FROM UPCOMING LP 

DEBBY FRIDAY’S FORTHCOMING ALBUM, GOOD LUCK, OUT MARCH 24 

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INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES CONTINUE IN CANADA ON FEBRUARY 17

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In the high-octane, provocative and hard AF new DEBBY FRIDAY single “I GOT IT FEAT. UÑAS”, cocksure and vainglorious lyrics about her “big ol ego” and “red blood libido” riddle this lucid, acid housey, high-BPM track that features accompaniment by Chris Vargas of Pelada / Uñas. The song is from GOOD LUCK, her full-length debut, out worldwide (ex. Canada) on March 24 through Sub Pop. 

The supercharged energy of “I GOT IT FEAT. UÑAS” fuels the grit and gloss of this official video, which stars FRIDAY and Vargas. The official video was directed by FRIDAY, and features interstitial imagery from the GOOD LUCK short film being released along with the album, later this spring. 

FRIDAY says of “I GOT IT FEAT. UÑAS”, “This track is a ‘Get in the Uber, Bitch!’ ode to nightlife, purgatory, and club rats everywhere. Uñas and I had been wanting to collab for a while and this was a case of right vibe, right time.”

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Her upcoming short film “GOOD LUCK” is a pseudo-autobiographical tale, largely drawn from FRIDAY’s own life and experiences growing up as a zillenial anti-heroine. A surrealist reflection on the tumultuous whirlwind that is the end of adolescence and the emotionality of youth, GOOD LUCK is co-directed by FRIDAY and Nathan De Paz Habib (Chino Amobi’s Eroica, and The Bicycle).

DEBBY FRIDAY’s previously announced international headlining tour dates and festival appearances in support of GOOD LUCK resume Friday, February 17th in Toronto with a sold out Boiler Room performance, and currently run through May 6th, 2023. FRIDAY will also appear at SXSW (March 15th - 18th). Additional live dates to be announced soon.

WATCH / SHARE “SO HARD TO TELL” HERE
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MORE ABOUT GOOD LUCK:
The usual boom-and-bust cycles of growing up -- breaking down, gathering the strength to get up, fumbling hard, doing it all over again - can feel unmooring, to say the least, but, and according to DEBBY FRIDAY, its tragedies and glories need savoring. Losing illusions, gaining expectations; getting deep into the private, soupy kaleidoscope of what’s possible and what’s futile -- GOOD LUCK, her debut, and supernovic, full-length album, is built on welcoming the journey’s complicated drops and mountain highs with something more like grace. 

Nigerian-born, then an emigré to bits of Canada - from Montreal to Vancouver to Toronto - DEBBY FRIDAY’s roamings through space and time really began when the sun fell. Nightlife was her emancipation from the toughness of home life, and she fell into it, body and soul, totally seduced. Raves til sunrise; house music in unknown basements and warehouses -- the lure of the party was the perfect escape. “I was like a little club rat,” she laughs. Her adoration of the world that it opened for her came in “almost in a sensual way.” 

GOOD LUCK features “SO HARD TO TELL”, “I GOT IT”, “WHAT A MAN”, and was co-produced by DEBBY FRIDAY and Graham Walsh (METZ, Holy Fuck) at Candle Recording Studio in Toronto, and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York. 

Released in January, DEBBY FRIDAY’s “SO HARD TO TELL” saw incredible amount of praise  from the likes of Pitchfork (Best New Track), CBC Music (‘Songs You Need To Hear’), NPR (Now Playing), The FADER (‘Song You Need In Your Life”), Billboard, Exclaim!, Nylon, FLOOD, Cool Hunting, Brooklyn Vegan, Stereogum, Treble, Dork, Northern Transmissions, DIY, CLASH, Our Culture and more.

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PRAISE FOR DEBBY FRIDAY

"In contrast to the pulse-quickening tempos and noisy synths of her past music, her production is deft and graceful, with a skipping beat and cascading backing vocals. 'Lady Friday/All you do is rеbel,' Friday chastises herself—tough talk against a fragile, gorgeous sound."
["SO HARD TO TELL"/ "Best New Track"] - Pitchfork
 “Trading her hard raps for a natural falsetto, something she notes she has never done on record like this before, the track veers toward a soft pop/R&B sound, swelling around Friday like a warm, radiant aura as she comforts her younger self: "You're just a young girl/ all alone by yourself in the city." Whether she's shielded up or baring her emotions, consider us intrigued and excited to hear more in the coming months. [ SO HARD TO TELL / ‘Songs You Need To Hear’ ] - CBC Music

“One of the young year’s most audacious bangers” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - Billboard

“Intoxicating…” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - Stereogum

“Hyperpop can sometimes come off as abrasive but in the hands of Canadian singer DEBBY FRIDAY it’s soulful, even elegant.” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] -  NYLON

“A graceful entrance into yet another territory: lush R&B”[“SO HARD TO TELL”] - NPR Music

“If you’ve ever deep-dived into Debby Friday’s discography, you’ll know she slammed this single into left field, but man is it a hit! This edgy extraordinaire has taken a dip into the darkside via falsetto pop.”  ” [“SO HARD TO TELL”] - MTV

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GOOD LUCK TRACKLIST
1. GOOD LUCK
2. SO HARD TO TELL
3. I GOT IT (feat. Uñas)
4. HOT LOVE
5. HEARTBREAKERRR
6. WHAT A MAN
7. SAFE
8. LET U DOWN
9. PLUTO BABY
10. WAKE UP

TOUR DATES
Fri. Feb. 17 - Toronto, ON - Boiler Room
Wed. Mar. 15 - Austin, TX - SXSW
Thu. Mar. 16 - Austin, TX - SXSW
Fri. Mar. 17 - Austin, TX - SXSW
Sat. Mar. 18 - Austin, TX - SXSW
Fri, Mar. 24 - Montreal, QC - Phi Centre
Sat. Mar 25 - Toronto, ON - Garrison
Wed. Apr. 12 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Thu. Apr. 13 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
Fri. Apr. 14 -  Los Angeles - Zebulon
Sat. Apr. 15 - Vancouver - Cobalt
Wed. Apr. 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Babys Alright
Thurs. Apr. 20 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
Wed. May 03 - London, UK - Corsica Studios w/ Grove

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