SAYA GRAY ANNOUNCES 2025 TOUR DATES, SHARES NEW SINGLE / VIDEO

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SAYA GRAY’S HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM SAYA
OUT ON FEBRUARY 21, 2025 VIA MARION MURATA (CANADA)

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“a new self-sufficient artistic voice that’s bound to push, jolt and reinvent” - Dazed

“her production is alert, hyper-detailed and surreally unpredictable, segueing among ticking electronics, syncopated indie-rock, spacey vocal chorales, distorted guitars and what might be a koto.” - The New York Times

“collaging R&B and alt-rock into interdimensional pop” - Pitchfork

“if the singles are anything to go by, the record will be one of the best debuts of 2025.” -Wonderland

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Today, Saya Gray announces a lengthy run of upcoming tour dates across Europe and North America. Ticket presale sign up is available now via her website HERE and begins Wednesday, January 22 at 10 AM local time. General on sale begins Friday, January 24. This is only Saya’s second tour across the world following a completely sold out run last year. 

To accompany the big news, she also unveils a new single “LIE DOWN..” and a music video as a precursor to her debut album ​​SAYA out February 21, 2025 via Marion Murata in Canada, which was listed as one of Exclaim!’s Most Anticipated Albums of the year.

Her most expansive tour to date kicks off on April 9th at Paradiso Noord in Amsterdam and stops in major cities including Berlin, Paris, and London, before making its way to the US. Saya begins her North American run in Chicago at Lincoln Hall on April 29 and also visits Toronto, Montreal, New York, and Los Angeles to name a few. Full routing can be found below. 

Saya Gray continues her meteoritic rise in 2025 with “LIE DOWN..,” one of her most pared down releases, putting emphasis on her layered, lush vocals and whimsical, thumping bass line. The track is accompanied by a gorgeous visualizer evocative of film noir and fitting for a ruminative song about death and unrequited feelings. The music video was directed by longtime creative collaborator Jennifer Cheng.

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Gray began work on SAYA following the dissolution of a troubled romantic entanglement; she booked a flight to Japan in Autumn of 2023, and like a feel-good movie protagonist, detangled herself from the outstanding psychic ties by journeying solo on a cross-country road trip. Moved by the vastness of albums by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as her Canadian folk forebear, Joni Mitchell, Gray kept an acoustic guitar in the passenger’s seat, just in case inspiration would strike. In recording SAYA, Gray sanded and fine-tuned the rough edges of records past into more cohesive works of melodic folk songcraft.

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SAYA GRAY 2025 TOUR DATES 
UK / EUROPE
Wed, Apr 09 @ Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam, NL
Thur, Apr 10 @ Columbia Theater, Berlin, DE
Sat, Apr 12 @ Mojo Club, Hamburg, DE
Mon, Apr 14 @ Botanique, Brussels, BE
Tue, Apr 15 @ La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR
Thur, Apr 17 @ Village Underground, London, UK
 

NORTH AMERICA
Tue, Apr 29 @ Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL, US
Wed, Apr 30 @ The Axis Club, Toronto, ON, CA
Thur, May 01 @ La Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC, CA
Sat, May 03 @ The Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY, US
Tue, May 06 @ The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, US

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SAYA TRACKLIST
01 ..THUS IS WHY ( I DON'T SPRING 4 LOVE)
02 SHELL ( OF A MAN )
03 LINE BACK 22
04 PUDDLE ( OF ME )
05 HOW LONG CAN YOU KEEP UP A LIE?
06 CATS CRADLE!
07 10 WAYS ( TO LOSE A CROWN )
08 H.B.W
09 EXHAUST THE TOPIC
10 LIE DOWN..

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BRADEN LAM ANNOUNCES DEBUT LP, SHARES NEW SINGLE “WIDE OPEN”

BRADEN LAM’S DEBUT LP, THE CLOUDMAKER’S CRY, OUT APRIL 11, 2025

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“Welcoming Vancouver-based singer Michaela Slinger onto the track for an old-fashioned duet, the two sing about heartbreak and reconciliation while pushing through the toughest of times and coming out strong on the other end.The two soft-spoken vocalists prove to be a great match for each other, blending their tones together as they tentatively venture requests to start taking the slow steps to fully opening back up emotionally.” RANGE on “Wide Open”

"Braden Lam's inviting voice rings out over gentle guitar and vibraphone on ‘Beautiful Neighbourhoods’, a timeless single that vibrates with warmth and longing." - CBC MUSIC

"Crafts an expansive but intimate sonic world for us to lose ourselves in" - Earmilk

"Calling to mind the happiest takes by Ben Howard or Tim Baker" - The Coast Halifax

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Braden Lam meets the moment on The Cloudmaker’s Cry, an album that makes good on the promise of this indie-folk wunderkind, with music reminiscent of a bygone era set to lyrics pulsing with the urgency and anxiety of today. The titular Cry evokes many kinds—cries of joy, of sorrow, of protest, of rage, of grief—as Lam pushes his voice to new edges exploring these expressions, and then some. He hones in and drills down on the complexity of relationships, the mundanity of adulthood, and the lasting impact of history. 

Having already released album singles “Beautiful Neighbourhoods”, which climbed to #7 on the CBC Music Top 20, and “Highway Jesus”, today Lam is also sharing a new track “Wide Open”, a duet with Vancouver’s Michaela Slinger. The track, perhaps most deeply indebted to classic country on the album, is a heartbreaker in the Plant & Krauss way, detailing a hard time in a relationship on which Braden Lam regrets, and repents: ‘If you wanna try to forgive / I’ll be your window in the morning / Crack me wide open.’ Written by Lam & Slinger in Nashville after a chance encounter, the pair delicately explore the one percent of magic that remains through adversity, drawing us in closer and out stronger on the other side.

“My wife, Lassie Fai… (who also duets on an upcoming album track called ‘Cowboy Boots’)... got rushed to the hospital in early 2023 due to severe endometriosis, a terribly painful and understudied disease,” says Lam. “The sudden cancer scare and full hysterectomy for a woman in her 20s rocked our relationship really hard for that entire year. It was super stressful, we almost lost our business through the process and I regretfully carried on with an album release and tour overseas shortly after her surgery. I wasn’t the best version of myself, or the best emotional support in all the ways I could have been. I wrote the chorus as I was thinking about her and this whirlwind experience. ’Wide Open’ is an apology, a humble invitation to keep trying, and a sign to get closer in a moment that is trying to drive you apart. ‘I still think of you when you’re not just looking my way / I still love you too like it’s not just something we say’.”

The single arrives with another video from Lam and director Griffin O’Toole. “The idea for the music video came to me originally as a joke,” says Lam. “I had just seen Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and was riffing on this funny concept in my head of a gigantic cowboy hat on top of a vintage pickup. I mentioned it to my friend Cameron Roberts, who is a talented carpenter, and he agreed to give it a go and built us the hat of my dreams! Griffin was very inspired by Terrence Malik films for the video treatment, and featured artist Michaela Slinger was on tour nearby this past November with a couple days off so it all just came together at the right time, and I truly believe we captured something special in this video that we will be proud of long into our careers. I’m so grateful to everyone involved.”

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MORE ABOUT THE CLOUDMAKER’S CRY
The Cloudmaker’s Cry is Lam’s debut full-length album, and he means album in the classic sense: 10 considered and thoughtful folk songs, meticulously arranged and painstakingly sequenced, meant to be played on a turntable in a single sitting, whiskey optional. Though barely 27, he has lived the life of a much older man—with years of touring, entrepreneurship, and marriage already accounted for—and this collection of songs reflects lessons learned earlier than most, about time and love and the world.

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It was produced in Toronto by Eli Browning, a new approach for Lam, who made his previous three EPs with a host of producers across Atlantic Canada. The pair’s touchstones as they worked through a city springtime in a converted church studio were George Harrison, Neil Young, and other sounds from the 1960s and 70s: music that is lyric-forward and performed with folk instrumentation in analogue tones, resulting in a timeless singer-songwriter record.

This vibe carries through the entire package, from the tintype photographs of Lam to the images wrought in 35mm in the liner notes, to his charming video collaborations with Griffin O’Toole that combine nostalgia, surrealism, and camp into a distinct style of film. Each particular piece fits perfectly into the primary vision, creating something grand in its authenticity and comforting in its warmth.

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THE CLOUDMAKER’S CRY TRACKLIST
01 The Hold
02 In The Narrows
03 Hurricane Season
04 Cowboy Boots ft. Lassie Fai
05 HighwayJesus
06 Beautiful Neighbourhoods
07 Wide Open ft. Michaela Slinger
08 Bigger Flame
09 Obsolete
10 Sore

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TWO HOURS TRAFFIC RELEASE FIRST SINGLE / VIDEO IN MORE THAN 10 YEARS

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Today, Two Hours Traffic are sharing their first new single in…well, a while. In 2013 Two Hours Traffic played their farewell concerts after touring together for more than a decade. Five years later, in 2018, they quietly came out of retirement for what was meant to be a one-off performance, and have been playing sporadically since. Most recently, they performed a series of shows in Eastern Canada to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their album, Territory.

Their new single, “Keep It Coming” was written during a pretty tough year when ‘keep it coming’ became “a bit of a mantra, as well as a reminder not to worry about every little thing in the future and to trust that you will be able to deal with whatever comes your way,” says Andy MacDonald.

Liam Corcoran adds that the song has “the kind of arrangement we’ve tried to develop over the years, with lots of empty space on the recording and a focus on the groove and the rhythms. Our friend Dan Griffin (Teen Ravine) added keys and synths which ended up being the glue that made the recording really work.”

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MORE ABOUT TWO HOURS TRAFFIC
Two Hours Traffic formed in 2002 at the University of Prince Edward Island, where they began carving out a space for themselves in the Canadian indie rock scene with their hook-laden melodies and sharp lyricism. Over the next decade, the Charlottetown-based band released four full-length albums and three EPs, steadily gaining a loyal following with each new release.

In 2007, their album Little Jabs earned widespread critical acclaim, including a spot on the 2008 Polaris Music Prize shortlist which helped to catapult the band into the national spotlight.

Be on the lookout for more new music from Two Hours Traffic in the near future.

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