GEORGIA HARMER SHARES TRANQUIL NEW SINGLE “LITTLE LIGHT”

THE TORONTO SINGER-SONGWRITER USHERS IN SPRING WITH HOPEFUL HYMN FOR NEW LOVE, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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"Can We Be Still" continues to show off Harmer's astute songwriting, especially by expanding on her heartfelt odes to friendship. The new track builds off a steadily strummed riff and drum beat as Harmer illustrates an evolving timeline between two friends”.
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The rosy glow of Harmer's voice holds the collapsing tenses and inevitable changes together atop a gently winding melody, led by acoustic guitar strums and a percussive heartbeat. Exclaim! On “Can We Be Still”

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Following Georgia Harmer’s recent return with “Can We Be Still” – and a jaunt overseas supporting The Weather Station – the celebrated Toronto singer-songwriter is sharing new single “Little Light,” a gentle and reflective tune that brims Georgia’s eloquent storytelling. Her lithe acoustic guitar dances around the unmatched beauty of her voice singing a country-inflected lullaby lightly accented by measured doses of vibraphone and slide guitar. In Georgia’s words:

"’Little Light’ is an homage to a very peaceful place out in the country where I lived for a few months, and a new love taking root,” says Harmer. “It's a very hopeful song, about being led to inner solace, and feeling like the blinds are being opened to let the light in a little bit more than they'd ever really been. It's a song about tranquility and reverence, for the place I was in, physically and emotionally, and trying to take in the beauty that surrounded me and let it seep inward enough to make me feel like I could be part of it.”

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MORE ABOUT GEORGIA HARMER
With wisdom and poise, Georgia Harmer arrived with the 2022 release of her acclaimed debut album Stay In Touch, an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulates the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life. Spanning intimate folk and strummy country to sophisticated jazz and pop-kissed rock, Harmer and her band created musical landscapes that live up to the lyrical richness of her songwriting, and quickly established Georgia as a voice to transcend eras and genres with her ability to purely enchant. Georgia’s unforgettable voice is singular, gliding along a range of emotion from soft distorted rockers to bucolic ballads with windswept ease. Already a seasoned performer, Georgia has toured alongside City And Colour, Broken Social Scene, Bahamas, The Paper Kites, Haley Blais, Dan Mangan, Basia Bulat, Tim Baker, The Ballroom Thieves, and more.

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ABSOLUTE TREAT (FORMERLY DILETTANTE) ANNOUNCE NEW EP, SHATTERED LOVE

ABSOLUTE TREAT, THE NEW MONIKER OF DILETTANTE, TO RELEASE NEW EP, SHATTERED LOVE, MAY 14, 2025 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS 

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Absolute Treat is the new moniker of the Toronto-based, multi-hyphenate pop group formerly known as Dilettante. Having fully shed the hazy, lo-fi trappings of their previous project (as enveloping and winningly moody as it was), the band – Natalie Panacci (vocals), Julia Wittmann (vocals; guitar) and bandmates Zachary Stuckey (bass) and Bradley Connor (drums) – have since turned their attention to the dance floor, teasing out threads of inspiration from the intersecting points where disco, pop, rock, and slinky R&B meet. 

In 2022, they released their debut album, Dilettante, which UK publication Backseat Mafia described as having “indelible melodies and mountain high anthems." This established them as a versatile band that can play anything from moody ballads (“Blue”) to spangly uptempo bops (“Bonnie”). It also led to their inclusion in Exclaim! Magazine’s Class of 2023, opening slots for bands such as Born Ruffians and The Darcys, and performances at festivals such as Toronto Pride and River & Sky. 

Following the name change and a 2025 re-release of Dilettante on their new label, Victory Pool, Absolute Treat have returned with their latest EP, Shattered Love, where they have refined their dynamic sound, delivering the polish and energy of seasoned pop powerhouses. 

Today, the band shares the EP’s first single, "Main Street", a track that “came from a moment of deep sadness and isolation,” says Panacci. “I was walking down a main street in my neighbourhood in the West End of Toronto, crying and overwhelmed by emotions, completely disconnected from myself. I was afraid to be seen by anyone I knew because I felt so bad. Instead of hiding in the backstreets, I sat down and wrote the first half of the lyrics in the song. Over the next year—through heartbreak, reflection, and the process of rebuilding myself, I rewrote the lyrics and the song was ready to record. It captures that feeling of being lost in your own life, but also the hope that, one day, things will change.”

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MORE ABOUT SHATTERED LOVE
Shattered Love is a collection of songs that distill the essence of some of pop music's finest writers and producers from the '70s and '80s. The album is replete with spot-the-influence moments, but never in a way that pops one out of the tight, concise listening experience Absolute Treat have constructed. It's all perfectly sublimated and stylishly executed. 

“The Sun” opens up the EP with a surefooted anthem that uncannily recalls choice elements of late '70s funk/disco progenitors Chic; on which, co-leader Julia Wittmann's guitar playing shines throughout, but makes an especially strong initial impact on this tune. The vocals positively radiate; it's hard not to imagine hearing them amongst the spinning dapples of disco-ball reflections and sweaty bodies in a crowded club; with its cascading melody lines in the verses and singalong-worthy harmonies in the choruses, this opening track reads as something of a mission statement for Shattered Love. A dramatic dropout mid-song, a saxophone solo hits and grungy guitar riff slides in underneath, bringing the song home for a final round of that ridiculously catchy chorus. 

Title track, “Shattered Love” paints a luridly vivid portrait of the streets of Toronto while sounding like a long-lost Prince b-side with its mysterious synthesizers, chopping guitar work, and minimal, deeply funky rhythm section. Never staying in one place for long, the hooky chorus in this tune incorporates a more sultry vocal approach before Panacci belts out a raw, insistent refrain of the song's title.

Shattered Love closes with a lovely track called “Slow”, which may very well be the vocal showcase on the album. Shimmering with layers of cascading synth adornments both Wittmann and Panacci truly belting it out in the song's final moments. From here the tune gently winds down, and it'll be no surprise when you find yourself reaching for the “play” button again as soon as it's over.

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SHATTERED LOVE TRACKLIST
01 The Sun
02 Shattered Love
03 Main Street
04 The Door
05 Slow

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ROSE COUSINS RELEASE NEW ALBUM, SHARES VIDEO FOR “NEEDED YOU”

ROSE COUSINS’ NEW ALBUM, CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1, OUT TODAY VIA NETTWERK

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2025 CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 29, MORE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED TODAY 

“On her new album, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1, Rose Cousins returns to her own first love — the piano — to craft 10 testaments to the human heart in all its glorious, inane complexity. The record delivers Cousins' trademark capacity for wry wit and emotional gravitas, but her archness never serves as a way to keep a distance between herself and her lyrics. Cousins knows how to find the light in the dark, she knows survival, and she's crafting whole worlds here."
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“Rose Cousins is here to tell us about love. Vol. 1 of that treatise promises more of Cousins's deftly rendered, soul-inflected pop music. Light as air but deep as space, lead single "I Believe in Love (and it's very hard)" makes a simple declaration sound like the bravest thing you could ever admit.” Exclaim!, Most Anticipated Albums of 2025

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Today, acclaimed multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins releases her new album Conditions of Love - Vol 1. To help celebrate the occasion, Cousins is sharing the video for “Needed You”, a song that “speaks to the scars of childhood,” she says. “A loving lament to those moments when we most needed love and it wasn’t available. Time passes and we figure out how to survive in the world we are born into. Later, out in the world on our own, we begin to see ourselves as two separate people: who we needed to be as a child, and the adult we have become, away from our family dynamic.

“Generational pain is real. You can run screaming from your childhood only to get to midlife and there it is, still waiting to be held, acknowledged. I don’t know that there’s a way to reconcile the emotional past. I know we can get stuck choosing between authenticity and connection. Love is constantly trying to endure and persist in endless conditions, whether our needs are getting met or not. We do the best we can.

“In the end, Conditions of Love - Vol 1  journeys through longing and lands in a place of acceptance, perhaps the only real way forward.”

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MORE ABOUT CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1
On her new album, Rose holds her listeners’ hands as she guides them on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the Nova-Scotia-based artist seeks truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of humans’ most complicated of emotions: love. The journey results in a striking clarity, and it’s the gift of that clarity that brings on surprising tears.  

Rose shares, “Love feels great and makes us ridiculous. It's tiring and intense, joyful and devastating. Falling in love, being in love and staying in love are all such different things. Being human is emotionally complicated enough without attempting to relate to another who is just as complex, and in the most vulnerable of arenas: romance. Love is wondrous and absurd (and very hard). Humour helps.” 

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Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1 sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares. She first introduced the upcoming body of work with the gorgeous, piano-driven ballad “Forget Me Not,” followed by the slow-burning, nostalgic “Borrowed Light,” and the uplifting, “I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard),” which Rose has called the cornerstone of the upcoming album.  

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Rose Cousins’ songwriting plumbs the depths of the human condition. Her work has garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy Award nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Associated Press, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Batwoman and Heartland. 

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ROSE COUSINS CANADIAN TOUR (MORE DATES TBA)
March 29 - Fredericton, NB @ Wilmot United Church
April 1 - Sherwood Park, AB @ Festival Place Theatre
April 2 - Calgary, AB @ National Music Centre
April 3 - Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement
April 5 - Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
April 7 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
April 8 - Kingston, ON @ The Broom Factory
April 9 - Peterborough, ON @ Market Hall Performing Arts Center
April 11 - Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall
April 12 - Hamilton, ON @ The Westdale
April 13 - Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
April 16 - Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre Of The Arts
April 17 - Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
April 18 - Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre (Moncton)
April 19 - Saint John, NB @ Imperial Theatre
June 13 - St John's, NL @ Majestic Theatre
October 3 - Pender Island, BC @ Pender Islands Community Hall
October 4 - Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom
October 6 - Vancouver, BC @ St. James Community Square, Mel Lehan Hall 
October 8 - Vernon, BC @ Vernon Performing Arts Centre
October 9 - Lake Country, BC @ Creekside Theatre

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CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1 TRACKLIST
01 To Be Born (overture)
02 Forget Me Not
03 I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard)
04 Denouement
05 That’s How Long (I’ve waited for your love)
06 Needed You
07 Wolf and Man
08 K’s Waltz
09 Borrowed Light
10 How is this (the last time)

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