PURITY RING LAUNCH A NEW ERA WITH TWO-PART SINGLE “MANY LIVES” & “PART II”

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Today, trailblazing electronic pop duo Purity Ring release boundary-pushing experimental single, “many lives”, self-released via the fellowship (marketing and distribution support from Dine Alone for Canada). The single is released alongside accompanying track “part II”, a grounding moment of stillness woven around classical guitar from members mj and Corin. 

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Purity Ring returns with an adventurous two-part single that pushes into undiscovered sonic terrain. “many lives” opens to an array of choral layers—reminiscent of Kenji Kawai’s Ghost in the Shell soundtrack—woven into holographic digital keyboards, high-tempo breakbeats, and a flowing current of vocals threaded with haunted vocoders, evoking the sense of an epic journey through a distant memory. The lyrics ‘house of a dream, walk into me / leave me behind, within between below’ captures the bittersweet feeling of being left behind while evoking a dreamlike state of contentment. “part ii” offers a moment of stillness centered on classical guitar, signaling a peaceful reconciliation of what’s to come.

Of the new single, Purity Ring says: "In a lot of ways, ‘many lives’ and ‘part ii’ is the epicenter of things we’ve been working on recently. It’s like the sun we've been orbiting around for the past few years. It feels pitch black and impossible, but also has in it all the things we can make out of that. We're just really excited about making music at this point in our career and we felt a kind of vastness and possibility when making this."

The accompanying music video, from creative director Mike Sunday, provides the first look inside Purity Ring’s imagined RPG soundtrack, inspired by games like NieR: Automata and Final Fantasy X. Lush imagery centers around two characters – embodiments of mj and Corin – who are about to embark on a journey.

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Purity Ring released their first three albums on the legendary label 4AD, beginning with Shrines, which earned Pitchfork’s Best New Music honors and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Their breakout track “Fineshrine” is certified gold in the US, and “Grandloves” was sampled by Playboi Carti on his Die Lit track “Fell In Love”. In recent years, they remixed “Knife Prty” as the lead single for the 20th anniversary reissue of Deftones’ classic album White Pony and collaborated with industrial pop duo Black Dresses on the track “Shines”. 

Since emerging in the early 2010s, Corin and mj have made a lasting impact on the electronic pop landscape, building a world all their own with immersive self-produced albums and designing groundbreaking visual live show experiences. Their next era of self-released music promises to step fully into a vision they’ve been circling for years – one that feels vast, unrestrained, and true to who they’ve become.

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GEORGIA HARMER ANNOUNCES NEW LP, EYE OF THE STORM, SHARES TITLE TRACK & CANADA-USA TOUR DATES

GEORGIA HARMER’S NEW ALBUM, EYE OF THE STORM,
OUT AUGUST 15, 2025 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 30

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Georgia Harmer’s sophomore album, Eye of the Storm, is an empathetic exchange between past and future selves, and a deep breath of life into the veins of relationships over time. Where Harmer’s 2022 debut, Stay In Touch, chronicled introspection and growth, the heart of Eye of the Storm lies in the deeper matter of self-realization and understanding. It seeks to answer questions of what to carry, what to leave behind, and what to follow forward.

Today’s album announcement is marked by the release of the title track, “Eye Of The Storm.” Soft and intimate, the song traces the toll of emotional labour — the quiet weight of holding space for someone else's pain. In pure tones, Georgia’s unforgettable voice leads this melodic exercise in catharsis, with the gentle cacophony of her band subsuming the toil within. 

“‘Eye of the Storm’ is about the feeling of carrying the weight of someone else's well-being on my shoulders,” says Harmer. “It's about the feeling of responsibility and helplessness towards the problem of someone else's sadness. It's about emotional labour and my default willingness to take on the feelings of people around me, whether it even helps them or not. And how the weight of that can hold me back from my own life.” 

The song arrives with a one-shot video by director Norman Wong with cinematography by Tristan C-M, featuring Georgia at home with “Eye Of The Storm” in its natural fog-laden setting.

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Self-produced by Georgia’s steady hand, the songs of Eye of the Storm are raw, real, vulnerable and detailed. The title track joins the idyllic “Can We Be Still,” the delicate and tender “Little Light,” and the deeply introspective “Take it On” singles that subtly piece together the holistic vision that Georgia has for this record. Listen throughout for the creaks of living room chairs, the soft echoes of a back alley garage, or the earliest seeds of ideas, brought to life on front porches and in backyard studios. Eye of the Storm captures the way music sounds when made with one’s most trusted confidantes, when ideas are given space to breathe, with precise intention and a naturally evolving vision coming to fruition.

Also announcing today is The Eye Of The Storm Tour this fall with cross-Canada dates and headlining performances in New York and Los Angeles. Full itinerary below. Artist presale Thursday, June 5, 10am ET. General onsale Friday, June 6, 10am ET. Tickets & details HERE. 

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An older sister to her debut Stay In Touch, which chronicled periods of introspection and growth, Eye of the Storm distills memories and dreams, arriving at a place of self-awareness. 

Like an older sister, it contains the insight of someone who has learned that the weight of the world doesn't have to fall directly on her shoulders. It captures first-time feelings in the rearview mirror, with the depth of understanding and intuition of someone who’s spent years paying close attention. “I wrote this album over the course of a number of years, so there’s a lot of growth captured between songs,” says Harmer.

She started writing the title track when she was only 18, rediscovering and finishing it years later. Now 26, the result is both reflection and resolution, a shedding of past heaviness and a turn to lightness. “Take it On” continues the conversation, confronting Georgia’s own feelings about her past; it’s an exploration of her closest relationships. “I get very caught up in the emotional world of others, sucked into the vortex of trying to navigate their inner landscapes, through empathy, the impulse to fix and heal, the desire to be let in,” Georgia says.

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Relationships of all kinds are at the heart of the record, elemental to Georgia’s music and the songwriter and person she is on the whole. “My songs tend to use my relationships with other people to uncover truths about my own experience, or to communicate something unspoken to them.”

“Hazel vs The Coyote” grieves the loss of her aunt's two cats through dream-like scenes that shift in perspective. “Last Love” explores how devotion and uncertainty about forever can coexist in a romantic relationship. “Farmhouse” weaves shared memories into an apology love-letter to a friend. “Slow Down” travels through memories of her mother’s childhood, searching for stillness. We find that theme of stillness throughout the album. The first track envisions a lifetime of closeness, asking “Can We Be Still”? The guidance of “Little Light” shows us that we can. By the end of the album, “Time to Move On” leads us out of the past, and forward into the present. We find a soft place to land on “Memory Lullaby”, a final reflection on movement and time.

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Eye Of The Storm was recorded live off the floor in various locations that felt comfortable and homey to Georgia – friends’ backyard garage studios and living rooms. Days and months were spent layering texture and character into the songs. The result is stripped down, exposed and vulnerable. There’s thought in every movement and sound. “I know every corner of it, every vocal imperfection and creak in the background, because everything that made it to this final form was very much intended to be there.” 

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Georgia’s songs are inlaid into a lush world, where every sound is a character, and every arrangement is a house built to last. You can hear the dedication and effort of a group of people who took tremendous care to bring it to life; the depths of the personal relationships behind this album in the intuitiveness of its sound. Recorded and arranged with Dylan Burchell, Julian Psihogios, Ben Whiteley, Oliver LaMantia, Jasper Smith, Gavin Gardiner and Matt Kelly, Georgia has created a work that simultaneously recalls the setting it was captured in, and creates an entirely new world with a history of its own.

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EYE OF THE STORM TRACKLIST
01 Can We Be Still
02 Eye of the Storm
03 Little Light
04 Slow Down
05 Last Love
06 Hazel vs the Coyote
07 Take It On
08 Farmhouse
09 Time to Move On
10 Memory Lullaby

THE EYE OF THE STORM TOUR - DATES
Oct 30 - Hamilton ON - Bridgeworks
Nov 01 - Windsor ON - The Meteor
Nov 02 - Guelph ON - Sonic Hall
Nov 05 - Toronto ON - The Great Hall
Nov 06 - Montreal QC - La Sala Rossa
Nov 07 - Ottawa ON - NAC 4th Stage
Nov 08 - Kingston ON - Broom Factory
Nov 12 - New York NY - Baby’s All Right
Nov 19 - Los Angeles CA - Zebulon
Nov 21 - Victoria BC - Lucky Bar
Nov 22 - Vancouver BC - Biltmore Cabaret
Nov 23 - Penticton BC - Dream Cafe
Nov 25 - Calgary AB - Festival Hall
Nov 27 - Saskatoon SK - Capitol Music Club
Nov 28 - Regina SK - The Artesian
Nov 29 - Winnipeg MB - Park Theatre

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PATRICK WATSON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, UH OH, SHARES NEW SINGLE 

UH OH, A COLLECTION OF NEW SONGS AFTER LOSING HIS
VOICE AND NOT KNOWING IF HE’D EVER SING AGAIN,
OUT SEPTEMBER 26 ON SECRET CITY RECORDS

FEATURING ANACHNID, CHARLOTTE CARDIN, CHARLOTTE OLEENA, HOHNEN FORD, KLÔ PELGAG, LA FORCE, MARO, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT,
NOVEMBER ULTRA, AND SOLANN

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SUMMER PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN JUNE 20

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Singer-songwriter, film composer, and pianist Patrick Watson has announced that he will release his new album Uh Oh on September 26, 2025 via Secret City Records alongside new single and video "Peter and the Wolf". The eleven new, original songs find Watson meditating on the idea of life being a series of “uh ohs”, a little phrase uttered in response to everything from childhood accidents to our most overwhelming anxieties. For Watson, it came to mind when faced with the biggest “uh oh” that a singer could endure: he lost his voice. Unsure if or when he would be able to sing again, his new album took a new shape. A collection of collaborations with friends and strangers; artists that he wanted to hear sing. Uh Oh represents a vision that Watson has chased for his entire life, the culmination of 20 years of musical exploration and lived experience that enabled him to translate the films in his mind to the sounds and words swirling in your ears.

Most of the songs on Uh Oh see Watson and his long-time bandmates, collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Mishka Stein, Olivier Fairfield, and co-vocalist Ariel Engle (La Force) joined by a guest singer. The featured vocalists range from the iconic voices he’s idolized for years – Martha Wainwright – to ones he discovered through Instagram scrolling like Solann and local Quebec favorite Klô Pelgag, and include international phenoms MARO, Hohnen Ford, November Ultra, JUNO Award winner Charlotte Cardin, Félix award winner Anachnid, and a friend he met when she worked the counter at this local coffee shop, Charlotte Oleena. “Every singer has these different magical powers on this record, and each song kind of represents that,” Watson says.

Watson – a Polaris Music Prize winner whose song “Je te laisserai des mots” recently became the first French language song to cross 1 billion streams on Spotify – reflects on the situation of making music after losing his voice by saying: “Obviously, I like singing for people, but I was really enjoying my Modular [synth] and diving into instrumental music”. A natural inclination for Watson who’s composed over 15 film scores to date. “But then I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be cool to write songs for all these different singers that I really want to hear sing – I’ll find my way out of this situation that way.’ Because my voice wasn’t supposed to come back. And when it did, I just thought having all these other singers featured was still a cooler idea for a record than me singing alone.”

Hearing how the songs on Uh Oh flow seamlessly into one another, one might never guess that it was recorded in multiple locations – Montreal, New Orleans, L.A., Mexico City, Paris – with a minimalist approach, using just two microphones, in mostly one or two takes. And one might perhaps not guess that Watson spent two months studying Cardi B’s “Up” to get the mix just right.

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Along with today’s announcement, Watson has shared “Peter and the Wolf”, a menacing, dream-like song inspired by the ghosts of New Orleans and the pitch black-ness of being in the forest in the dark. The pulse-pounding new video, directed by Patrick Watson and SAM WOY, was shot in the Quebec countryside.

“This is something I never could’ve written when I was younger,” says Watson. “When I originally wrote this track, I was with my partner Heather in the woods and she was talking about rewriting Peter and the Wolf. When you’re in the forest at night and it's cloudy and the dark hits the tree line, it just goes pitch black. So I wrote the music thinking about that – not really a wolf, but that pitch-blackness. And then I went to New Orleans with Heather O’Neill and in the middle of the night, I took a walk outside, and New Orleans is just filled with ghosts at night – it's a really magical place. I was all by myself and then this car came slowly down the street. It was this really classy car and there was this crazy low-end just purring from far away and kind of rolling towards me. In the low end it was shaking all the houses and all the windows, the way it moved was so graceful and slow, it was quite wonderful. There was just something about when I was staring at that car that reminded me of when I was staring into the forest at night. I was staring at the same ghost in a lot of ways—it felt like I was in a dream as it was coming towards me. And I thought, ‘I'm going to write this song as if the car is the wolf and I'm Peter.’

“The first half of the song is about that, and for the second half of the song, we went to this really far away middle-of-nowhere swamp where we all went through these crazy trailer places where it looked like they were going to kill us, but then we got to the end of the swamp, and it was this beautiful emerald green everywhere we looked and it was like this thing that you wanted to taste but you knew it would kill you in a way. While we were down there, we ran into a lot of French speaking people which was really fun since I'm from Quebec. I decided to make the swamp a mermaid because you want to get into it and swim in it but the moment you do that it will just swallow you like it swallows everything that flows into it, It's interesting because that place is basically all of America flowing down there through it so that's a very interesting sensation.”

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Watson has previously shared two songs from Uh Oh; “Silencio” with French artist November Ultra, and “Gordon in the Willows” with fellow Montrealer Charlotte Cardin. “Silencio” was the first preview of this new project, with Watson first revealing the loss of his voice, and among other impressions, finding the power of silence. It was recorded at Studio Rubin Alterio, an old artist’s loft in Paris. “Gordon in the Willows” was written and recorded by Watson and Cardin in a small lakeside village in Quebec, and around the song’s release last winter, they performed it during a surprise appearance on the top of Montreal’s Mont Royal.

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Patrick Watson has reached gold and platinum status in multiple countries, including five certified gold albums in Canada, and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of his career, Patrick has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. Patrick’s songs have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey’s Anatomy and This Is Us, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), Wim Wenders (Perfect Days), Philippe Falardeau (C’est pas moi, je le jure!) and more. He’s an artist who’s as comfortable performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London’s prestigious Barbican. He’s an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. He was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian Sync Awards. Watson’s viral single "Je te laisserai des mots" became the first French song to accumulate 1 billion streams on Spotify.

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TOUR DATES
Jun 20 - Saint-Casimir, QC - Festival la Commission B
Jul 03 - Saguenay, QC - La Noce
Jul 25 - Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Music Festival
Aug 28-31 - Wentworth-North, QC - Live at Lost River
Oct 28 - Toulouse, France - Bikini
Oct 29 - Bordeaux, France - Rocher de Palmer
Oct 31 - Nantes, France - Stereolux
Nov 01 - Rouen, France - Le 106
Nov 02 - Lausanne, Switzerland -Théâtre De Beaulieu
Nov 04 - Paris, France - Zenith La Villette
Nov 05 - Lyon, France - Transbordeur
Nov 07 - London, United Kingdom - Troxy
Nov 10 - Nijmegen, Netherlands - Concertgebouw de Vereeniging
Nov 11 - Bruxelles, Belgium - BOZAR
Nov 12 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Carre Theatre

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UH OH TRACKLIST
1. Silencio - Patrick Watson & November Ultra
2. Peter and the Wolf - Patrick Watson
3. The Wandering - Patrick Watson & MARO
4. Choir in the Wires - Patrick Watson
5. Uh Oh - Patrick Watson & Charlotte Oleena
6. The Lonely Lights - Patrick Watson & La Force
7. Ami imaginaire - Patrick Watson & Klô Pelgag
8. Postcards - Patrick Watson & Hohnen Ford
9. House on Fire - Patrick Watson & Martha Wainwright
10. Gordon in the Willows - Patrick Watson & Charlotte Cardin
11. Ça va - Patrick Watson & Solann

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