ABIGAIL LAPELL’S DELUXE LP OUT TODAY, SHARES “COUNT ON ME” ACOUSTIC VERSION

ABIGAIL LAPELL’S DELUXE ALBUM, ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE, INCLUDING 8 ADDITIONAL SONGS FROM THE 2025 JUNO AWARD NOMINATED ALBUM ANNIVERSARY - OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC 

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“achingly beautiful” SOCAN Magazine

“Anniversary celebrates love in all its forms, taking the listener on a journey from ephemeral moments of elation to the power of eternal love, to the tragedy of heartache and loss.” Stir 

“Lapell’s masterful skills on finger-style guitar, harmonica, piano once again return to effortlessly complement her eerily beautiful vocals.” - KUTX (NPR)

“Anniversary” emerges boldly and beautifully as an earnest celebration of commitment”
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"The standout track 'Rattlesnake' begins with a slowly ramping up guitar that is sparse and haunting yet upbeat. Lapell lays down vocals that feel rooted and soulful with an element of blues running through her unique style of folk-noir." - Glide Magazine

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Today, Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell releases More Songs About Love, the extended companion to her acclaimed 2025 JUNO Award Nominated album Anniversary. In celebration, Lapell is sharing the acoustic version of “Count On Me”. A love song about love songs, this stripped-down rendition goes back to basics with sparse, haunting acoustic guitar and harmonies from Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker.

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An evocative collection of original love songs, Anniversary was produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker and recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets. 

Balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, More Songs About Love adds eight new stripped-down tracks to the collection, including delicate acoustic versions of Anniversary’s standout tracks; a captivating French translation of crowd favourite “Rattlesnake”; and Lapell’s unique take on a handful of beloved classics, including her impassioned version of “Feels Like We Always Go Backwards” by Tame Impala. 

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On Anniversary, Abigail Lapell interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together. ‘Anniversary’ literally means ‘returning yearly’, and the album’s 11 songs track the revolving days, seasons, and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love. Across the project, Lapell drew inspiration from a series of personal milestones, including turning 40, along with the fifteenth anniversary of her father’s death – and, more recently, several weddings and births in her family. She offers a 40-something vision of love, haunted by the ghosts of departed loved ones, past relationships or even the spectre of faded youth. 

Anniversary was fittingly recorded in a historic 200-year-old church adjoining a cemetery, complementing the project’s resonant and hauntingly intimate theme. Lapell tapped Tony Dekker to co-produce the album, and the two assembled a stellar cast of musicians to round out Lapell’s vocals, piano, harmonica and fingerstyle electric guitar. The ensemble’s sensitive, orchestral country-jazz arrangements reveal the depth of Lapell’s musical palette – making use of the church’s in-house piano, harpsichord and several antique organs.

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Across the album, Lapell’s deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love’s finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. “I wanted to explore some of the contradictions within the pop culture notion of love,” Lapell says. “These dichotomies of light and dark, love and loss, fleeting and eternal – even in the traditional wedding vows, ‘sickness and health, richer or poorer.’” Ultimately, while deconstructing the myths of romantic love, Anniversary emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment – acknowledging its tragedy and hope, and its power to haunt and console at the same time.

Anniversary comes on the heels of Abigail Lapell’s critically acclaimed 2022 album Stolen Time, and Lullabies, released in November of 2023. Over the course of her musical journey, Lapell has now garnered four Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 40 million+ streams on Spotify alone.  Abigail was the most nominated artist at the 2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards with 4 nominations: Contemporary Album of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year for Anniversary, Traditional Singer of the Year - for Lullabies, taking home the award for 2025 Children's Album of the Year for Lullabies

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TOUR DATES
05/11/2025 Birmingham United Kingdom Kitchen Garden Cafe
05/12/2025 Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge Junction 2
05/13/2025 Bristol United Kingdom Hen & Chicken
05/14/2025 London United Kingdom Jazz Cafe
05/16/2025 Stockholm, SE Sweden Nalen
05/17/2025 Falkenberg, SE Sweden Tryckhallen
05/18/2025 Malmö Sweden Plan B
05/21/2025 Arnhem Netherlands Bovenzaal
05/22/2025 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
05/23/2025 Venlo Netherlands Joriskerk
05/24/2025 Leuven Belgium Cinema Roxy
05/27/2025 Bremen Germany Radio Bremen concert
05/28/2025 Hamburg, DE Germany Monkeys Music Club
05/30/2025 Berlin Germany Cassiopeia
06/08/2025 Toronto Ontario Hugh's Room
06/11/2025 Portland ME Maine Oxbow
06/12/2025 Saratoga Springs New York Caffe Lena
06/13/2025 Exeter New Hampshire The Word Barn
06/14/2025 Cambridge Massachussetts Club Passim
06/15/2025 New York NY Cafe Wha
07/18/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/19/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/20/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/24/2025 Charlottetown PEI - Trailside
07/25/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest
07/26/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest
07/27/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest

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ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE TRACKLIST
01 Anniversary Song
02 Footsteps
03 Count On Me
04 Rattlesnake
05 Blue Blaze
06 Someone Like You
07 3AM
08 Flowers In My Hair
09 Blue Electric Skies
10 Wait Up
11 Stars
12 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
13 Anniversary Song (Acoustic)
14 Wait Up (Acoustic)
15 Plaisir d'amour
16 Serpent à sonnette
17 Count On My (Acoustic)
18 The End Of The World
19 Stars (Acoustic)

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AMBRE CIEL SHARES NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM

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AMBRE CIEL’S DEBUT ALBUM, STILL, THERE IS THE SEA, OUT JUNE 6, 2025 VIA GONDWANA RECORDS

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PERFORMING AT FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL THIS SUMMER

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Recently, Ambre Ciel announced her debut album, still, there is the sea, and shared its first single, “the sun, the sky”. Today, she shares “eau miroir”, a dreamy neo-classical pop movement co-produced with Pietro Amato (Patrick Watson) and orchestral arrangement assisted by Owen Pallett. ‘eau miroir’ conjures vivid images of sunlit reflected oceans. Piano melody ascends and descends like waves, to the lexical field of the lyrics, with vocals mirrored in perfect harmony. 

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MORE ABOUT STILL, THERE IS THE SEA
Ambre Ciel is a composer, violinist, pianist and singer who hails from Montreal and is a purveyor of dreamy, expansive, spacious pop music. Ambre, who sings in both French and English, hails from a family of singers and artists. “I started my journey learning violin at six and began experimenting with pedal effects and looping melodies later on,” says Ciel. University followed with a focus on composition and recording. “That’s when I started exploring composing and songwriting more deeply—both the world of sounds in itself and songs built mostly with layers of violin and voice. It was also during this time that I returned to my ‘first’ instrument, the piano, which opened more harmonic possibilities.” 

For Ambre, her debut album, still, there is the sea, represents a beginning, a first and she says imperfect attempt to create this other world that was living in her mind. She has crafted a beautifully refined ‘pop album’ making a lot of space for strings arrangements and other acoustic instruments, as well as her own beautiful voice. “On a personal level, I was searching for silence. I had just finally moved to a quiet apartment in Montreal and for the first time, I had all the time and space to hear silence and create, being solitary and living in the intangible world of possibilities”. 

The enigmatic title of the album, still, there is the sea, came to Ambre when she realised that water was a subconscious but recurring theme throughout the album in terms of melodies and lyrics; “eau miroir” refers to how the water can be some kind of mirror, “cycle” embodies a cyclical, perpetual movement, “atlantis” refers to this inward looking quest and distancing from the world, “sometimes” has sounds from rain and storm, and refers to a storm happening inside someone’s thoughts. “The water element can be very thin, fragile, but it’s always in movement and can resemble a larger and massive current, expansive, and I wanted to move between instrumental and song with this fluidity and was interested in finding ways to create something that could still feel cohesive. It also reflects this entire season of solitude and silence, how to me creating music represents this access to an underworld closer to the realm of dreams, that can be deep, surreal, rich and very grounding too.”

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The songs and compositions on still, there is the sea also aim to offer a way of coping with what is going on in the world, an escape from the horrors of war and climate change. An attempt to create beauty and hopefully offer escapism and to engage with the world in a way that is meaningful and authentic. “Music is mysterious and powerful,” explains Ciel. “You don’t always know how you feel and then just by improvising at the piano there’s a transfer operating and the opaqueness of your emotions translate in a music that can be as emotionally complex and inherently constructive.” 

While still, there is the sea is very much Ambre’s own personal statement and artistic vision as a composer, arranger and producer, Pietro Amato offered support and experience (and an extra pair of ears) as co-producer and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) gave assistance with the orchestral arrangements Ambre wrote for the FAMES Skopje Studio Orchestra conducted by Sasho Tatarchevski. And deeply sensitive musicians such as percussionist Stefan Schneider (Bell Orchestre, The Luyas), clarinettist Guillaume Bourque and a string trio made of Marilou Lepage, Sebastian Gonzalez Mora, and Julien Siino all brought their unique voices to the record.

PRE–SAVE STILL, THERE IS THE SEA HERE

PERFORMANCE DATES
June 30 - Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

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STILL, THERE IS THE SEA TRACKLIST
01 the sun, the sky
02 eau miroir
03 cycle
04 atlantis
05 dream - mirage
06 sometimes
07 pièce no. 8
08 fragment of

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GEORGIA HARMER HOLDS UP A MIRROR IN “TAKE IT ON”

THE TORONTO SINGER-SONGWRITER SHARES NEW SINGLE, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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Today, Georgia Harmer follows recent singles “Can We Be Still” and “Little Light” with "Take It On”: a deep introspection in the form of a slow-burning anthem, with lyrics that untangle her own embedded patterns of thinking - about the ways she’s seen herself over time, in conflict, and in relation to the emotions of others. Her gentle, raw voice carries the song from its bare acoustic beginnings to its softly powerful peak - a refrain of the words “I don’t want to behave,” an ode to her too-careful, younger self. Georgia’s habit of taking on conflict, of being swept into storms, inspires the personal growth traced by the gorgeous arc of this song.

“‘Take It On’ is about the way I see myself, and the ways I have assumed others see me,” says Harmer. “It’s about the emotional labour of taking on conflict around me - and creating it internally - sometimes for the sake of having something to solve, to worry about, and noticing how that habit has weighed me down. This song is me holding a mirror up and being very honest about what I see.”

The song arrives with a music video directed, shot, and edited by Nora Rosenthal, featuring Georgia singing “Take It On,” performing the song as if she’s confiding in a trusted friend, on a sunset walk across all of the bridges in the city.

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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.

RECENT PRAISE FOR GEORGIA HARMER
"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”.
CBC Music on “Can We Be Still”

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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