OURI SHARES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “PARIS” FT. OLI XL

OURI’S NEW LP, DAISY CUTTER, DUE OUT OCTOBER 24, 2025

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October 24 - Montreal, QC - Parquette
October 26 - Toronto, ON - Space Unltd

"effortless and sublime" - PAPER Magazine

"a richly rewarding left turn" - The FADER

"expertly guides listeners through a narrative of anticipation, climax and release" - Office Magazine

"equal parts comforting and transcendent" - V Magazine

"dials in swooping sounds, echoey vocal syllables, a glitchy beat, tentative chords; the dance beat solidifies, falls away and reappears" - The New York Times

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Today, Montreal-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Ouri shares a new single “Paris” featuring Swedish artist Oli XL. The song is off her forthcoming album Daisy Cutter due October 24 and comes alongside a new music video featuring Oli XL snatching Ouri’s phone on the streets of Paris. Speaking about the song Ouri shares, "’Paris’ is an ode to my younger self growing up in this city. I was both trying to fit in and also trying on a bolder lifestyle, as I realized that the classical cellist life was not the right suit for me. Being 14 going to sleep at sunrise in one of the most beautiful cities is forever printed on my retina. Oli XL joined on this track and it became the ultimate time travelling song for me / my favourite on the album." 

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The new song follows the previous single and album title track “Daisy Cutter”. Throughout the forthcoming album, Ouri builds a world out of a radical experimentation with desire, discipline, and intimacy. What began as a practice of letting everything flow without judgment grew into a study of freedom’s contradictions: the pull between safety and risk, commitment and release, control and surrender. The album’s title, Daisy Cutter, carries this duality. Borrowed from a bomb, devastating and absolute, it also evokes the delicate act of trimming a flower. Ouri keeps both in play, moving between sweeping force and precise gestures. Out of this tension arises music that feels both intimate and insurgent. 

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Ouri engineers, mixes, and masters everything herself, shaping tactile and often nocturnal sounds that shift just as they seem to settle. Across the album Ouri places herself within a community that feels at once real and imagined. Around her, friends and collaborators assemble as comrades, an underground militia intent on cultivating a future sound. Longtime allies including Mobilegirl, Oli XL, Bby Eco, Charlotte Day Wilson, Bamo Yendé, Cecil Believe, Duncan Hood, Jonah Yano, Sea Oleena and Cowboy Lansky join Ouri across the album, their contributions recorded in borrowed spaces, apartments, and other non-studio settings, exploring various ways of being in the world that allow for the contradictions of fortification and desire.

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Daisy Cutter follows Ouri’s highly praised debut album Frame of a Fauna, which was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, as well as her collaborative project Jour 1596 with Helena Deland as Hildegard, that The FADER described as, “A blessed union of avant-garde R&B saints.” Since the release of her debut album Ouri has toured across North America with celebrated artists including Yaeji, Tirzah, Charlotte Day Wilson and Smerz. 

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OURI TOUR DATES
October 24 - Montreal, QC - Parquette
October 26 - Toronto, ON - Space Unltd

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DAISY CUTTER TRACKLIST
01 Death Row
02 Blush 
03 Paris
04 Friends from Nowhere
05 Behave ! 
06 multiLove
07 Daisy Cutter
08 V Stories
09 Young Thief
10 100,000 ft
11 Droplets in The Air
12 Untouched 
13 Get in Formation ! 

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BABYGIRL’S DEBUT LP OUT TODAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

TORONTO INDIE POP DUO’S DEBUT ALBUM, STAY HERE WHERE IT’S WARM, OUT TODAY VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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“Downright dreamy music” - Rolling Stone

“The chorus soars out from the shadows of nostalgia of melancholic recollections of moments with someone who redefined what love can be and into the bright burst of luminosity that saturates the single's accompanying artwork, with open chords and twinkling synths swirling like dust in a sunbeam: "Caught me in your headlights, I forgot to move." Exclaim! on "After You"

“While their nostalgic sound recalls the warm malaise of ’90s alternative rock, the band’s lyrics strike a contemporary chord, blending sad, solitary images with moments of crystalline clarity and emotional weight.” CONSEQUENCE

"Bandmates Kiki Frances and Cameron Bright layer on the melancholic yearning, jangling guitars, and haze ‘90s vibes, hitting on a deft balance of earnest pop melody and indie rock malaise.” Under The Radar

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Out today via Arts & Crafts, Stay Here Where It’s Warm is the long-awaited debut album from Toronto duo Babygirl. Meticulously built and carefully shaped by Kiki Frances and Cameron Bright, it’s a warm, gently devastating record about fleeting intimacy, emotional refuge, and learning to let go. 

To help celebrate the album’s release, Babygirl are sharing the video for “Dancing With Her”, a song which “takes place at a party with an ex in attendance, and they’ve brought their new girl,” the band explains. “You have to pretend like that has no effect on your enjoyment of the night. It’s an uncomfortable feeling seeing the person you used to be closest to find a new person to take that place. Knowing that you weren’t right together doesn’t ease the sting of seeing them with someone else, and can make you question if ending things was the right decision. Expressly designed for crying/dancing in tandem.”

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MORE ABOUT STAY HERE WHERE IT’S WARM
What if a song could feel like a moment you never want to end—even though you know it must? Like being snuggled up in bed in the morning with the knowledge you’re going to have to start your day any moment now. The duality between the place of comfort and the loss of it is at the emotional core of Stay Here Where It’s Warm, the long-awaited debut album from Toronto band Babygirl.

Kiki and Cameron met in a jazz program and bonded over a shared love of Katy Perry, The Beach Boys, and the art of a good pop song. They were “kindred pop spirits,” as though fated to be a songwriting team. A pair of pop music philosophers, the two connected over dissecting the math of Max Martin and Swedish-penned Top 40 hits. “It was nice to find someone else there that was super passionate about pop music and took it seriously in the same way,” they say. It didn’t take long for collaboration to spark.

The plan, at first, was to write for other artists, Tin Pan Alley-style. They stockpiled demos and imagined their songs in the hands of pop stars. “And then we were sitting there with the pile of demos like, now what? How do we get [REDACTED]’s phone number?” They never did get in the studio with [REDACTED]—they haven’t yet, anyhow. In the process, they stumbled onto something singular: a distinct sound and voice that didn’t feel like it belonged to anyone else. So they started a band, named it Babygirl, and began putting their own songs out into the world.

That was almost ten years ago now; since Babygirl’s origin they’ve been releasing singles and EPs, like 2018’s Lovers Fevers, with the serenely melancholic indie hit “I Wish I Never Met You.” It set the stage for what they’ve been gradually, meticulously working on ever since: ‘I wish I knew forever would end so soon’, Frances sang—but she doesn’t sound sad, she sounds composed, cerebral, like she is contemplating a logic problem from a sunkissed future vantage point.

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This is the project of Babygirl: they are perfectionists whose music has been marinating since they met. 2000s pop-rock, ‘90s slacker rock, shoegaze, jangle and dream-pop stirred together with the comforting energy of two artists committed to their craft, and aren’t hiding behind a wall of nonchalance. “We’re often using our influences and then doing it in the most pop way possible,” they say. Their approach is part homage, part deconstruction. “We like to Trojan Horse our songs,” they say—sneaking huge pop choruses into an indie sound by filtering them through a lens of softness and heartache. 

The oldest song on Stay Here Where It’s Warm dates back to the time of their initial EPs. “Take Me Back” started as an attempt to enter the “pantheon of apology songs”—inspired by classics “I Want You Back,” “Sorry,” and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”—before evolving into a bittersweet dream-pop gem. Another, “You Don’t Need a Reason to Call,” spent years in the vault before the band figured out how to camouflage its stadium-sized pop chorus. 

Across Stay Here Where It’s Warm, each song puts a slightly different lens on what it means to stay, or leave, or want to. “All Is Well” floats on a quiet existentialism, its lyrics reaching for comfort in the cosmos: And when it’s not enough for me / I’ll turn my head and see infinity, Frances sings, endlessness contained in that refrain. “Give Up With Me” leans harder into ‘90s shoegaze—heavy, gorgeous, distorted—in service of surrender. On “Buzzed,” the haze lifts, if only for a second. A sticky, dizzy love song with the feel of a sugar rush, it’s all color and motion: It’s like somebody spiked the punch. 

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Then there’s the sparkly “Dancing With Her,” emotionally raw but dappled in bright light. You don’t know how bad the bruise is til you’re pressing down, Frances sings. A reminder that joy and pain live in the same place. That the ache of something lost doesn’t cancel out the beauty of having had it. 

The new album’s title track captures their ethos: that ache to freeze a moment in time, even as you know it’s already slipping away. “You can’t stay in these perfect moments forever,” Frances explains. It’s all late-night phone calls, half-remembered dreams, tipsy romance, and the strange comfort of surrendering to the moment, then looking at it, whole, from the outside.

Stay Here Where It’s Warm is full of songs that have followed Babygirl, stayed percolating, or, as they put it, “keep tapping on our shoulders.” It’s a record that’s been simmering quietly while the band wrote, scrapped, rewrote, pored over every tiny detail. “Sometimes it feels like you’re making a pointillist painting and you’re just seeing the dots,” they say, “and then at the end you stand back” to see the world they’ve built. They call themselves “studio rats”—this album marks a step into the light.

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STAY HERE WHERE IT’S WARM TRACKLIST
01 Take Me Back
02 All Is Well
03 Dancing With Her
04 You Don’t Need A Reason To Call
05 You’re The Difference
06 Buzzed
07 Give Up With Me
08 Can’t Be Friends
09 Take Me To Heaven
10 After You
11 Stay Here Where It’s Warm

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VIVEK SHRAYA SHARES NEW VIDEO ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES, NEW MODELS LP OUT TODAY

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NEW MODELS OUT TODAY VIA TWIN FANG RECORDS
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“...Shraya relies less on words and more on conveying an emotional journey through sound and vocoder-assisted voice, bending and stretching across every moment to take up space….What follows isn't a literal scream or cry, but Shraya's own sonic synthesis of meditative coos colliding into a bombastic end, leaving listeners with a sense of catharsis that can't really be put into words.” — Melody Lau - CBC MUSIC (on “When I’m Overcome”)

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Today, Vivek Shraya releases her latest album, New Models via Twin Fang Records. To help celebrate the occasion, the multi-hyphenate artist is also sharing the new video for “I Don’t Know Where I’m Going”. On the track, Shraya says, “My baseline mood is existential so a song where I repeat ‘I don’t know where I’m going’ for three minutes is peak me! That said, in a time where I’ve been really trying to embrace the unknown and uncertainty, the real experiment here was to see if I could write something about feeling lost that sounds hopeful.” 

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MORE ABOUT VIVEK SHRAYA AND NEW MODELS
‘When I’m overcome with feeling / I have to break free from words and just sing.’ An inveterate writer, Vivek Shraya knows that fewer words can carry more weight. These first lines of her new album, New Models, serve as both a thesis to the transcendent sonic experience to come, as well as an invitation to leave the burden of self-assuredness at the door. Don’t overthink—just listen. Just feel.

New Models is “me grappling with the state of the world over the past four years and eventually realizing that language, particularly English, had become so contorted and weaponized that the only way I could grieve, rage, and find comfort was to let go of it,” says Shraya. “How do you express the horror and helplessness of witnessing progress being rapidly undone—in words—when all you want to do is scream or cry?”

Shraya has dedicated much of her impressive artistic career to incisively articulating culturally loaded issues. Whether through her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men (which Vanity Fair called “cultural rocket fuel”), her award-winning play-turned-CBC show, How To Fail As A Popstar, or her provocative visual art and installation work, Shraya has challenged the status quo by transcending her personal experiences into daring artworks. But it is music that first drew Shraya into the arts, and it’s on her 11th solo album, New Models, that Shraya redefines her musical trajectory with a bold display of boundary pushing done right.

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This collection of hypnotically textured songs allows each listener to come to their own conclusions about the heavy subjects she conjures. Dread, disconnection, uncertainty—all are invoked through Shraya’s sparse, cutting lyrics, but it is her wordless vocal chanting that cuts the deepest. “How do you express—in words—the horror and helplessness of witnessing progress being rapidly undone,” Shraya explains, “when all you want to do is scream or cry?”

For New Models, Shraya joined forces with long-time producer-engineer James Bunton (Donovan Woods, Celeigh Cardinal, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson). Shraya and Bunton connected a decade ago, when Shraya realized the notion of the self-producing “solo genius” was profoundly flawed, and her and Bunton have grown to share a deep bond and a common language, with Bunton producing most of Shraya’s recent music, from Part-Time Woman, her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra (2017) to her previous full-length album Baby, You’re Projecting (2023, Mint Records) and the subsequent duet versions of songs from that album with Jann Arden and Donovan Woods.

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For Shraya, the key to their partnership is that Bunton really challenges her: “the challenges and questions he poses are always different with each project, which keeps things fresh.” For this project, Bunton pushed Shraya to experiment considerably on her own before the two started actively collaborating. “I found this quite difficult and lonely,” Shraya admits, “but in the end, this resulted in a kind of exploration and play that I haven’t tapped into since my 20s. There was a two-week period where I spent every evening demoing from 6pm–11pm, and it was such a generative and joyful experience!” By the time Shraya and Bunton were sharing project files back and forth, building upon one another’s ideas, the distinctive sound of New Models was set. “An exciting part of the process was letting the songs themselves reveal to us where they were supposed to live production-wise,” says Bunton, “instead of letting any of our predeterminations get in the way.”

Overflowing with creative freedom, New Models presents each song as its own world in which listeners can get lost. “Apathy Crisis”, for instance, transforms into a maximalist, glitchy soundscape—à la SOPHIE—only to dissolve into an intimate voice and synth pairing for an intimate send-off: ‘how do you sleep at night? / ‘cause I can’t sleep at night.’ Haunting songs like “We’re in Pain” and “Groomer” burst with off-kilter percussion and bending synths. All the while, electronic vocal gymnastics make Shraya’s passionate voice feel infinite. The music sounds as searching as the themes it touches upon: “Am I Doing Enough?” carries, as Shraya puts it, the “ache of forever falling short,” and the stunning “Moral Panic” ends with Shraya repeating the mantra: ‘We can’t go there / There’s so much to feel.’

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Vivek Shraya’s artistic practice has long been unrelentingly honest. She has never shied away from difficult feelings, whether harassment – her graphic novel with Ness Lee, Death Threat –  professional jealousy – as she explores on her podcast, I Won’t Envy –  or chronic pain – as in her new short film, Bodyrebuilding. What’s special about New Models is its insistence on moving through all the feelings possible. While no answers are uncovered, a deep desire for reconstruction and reconstitution glimmers. As Shraya intones, “everything works, until it doesn’t”—but just as crucially, “Everything hurts, until it doesn’t.” - Sam Boer

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Oct 09 - Montréal, QC - Festival Phénomena - La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines
Nov 15 - Toronto, ON - Long Winter - Allan Gardens Children’s Conservatory

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Jan 21 - Victoria, BC - Metro Studio Theatre
Jan 22 - Winnipeg, MB - Winterruption WPG - Public Domain
Jan 23 - Saskatoon, SK - Winterruption YXE - Art Bar
Jan 24 - Edmonton, AB - Winterruption YEG - CKUA
Jan 30 - Calgary, AB - Jack Singer Concert Hall with Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

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NEW MODELS TRACKLIST
01 When I’m Overcome
02 Apathy Crisis
03 We’re In Pain
04 Groomer
05 Breaking Our Pattern
06 Moral Panic
07 Am I Doing Enough?
08 I Don’t Know Where I’m Going

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