EDWIN RAPHAEL REVEALS VIDEO FOR “IT'S A SHAME YOU SWIM SO WELL” FROM NEW LP

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I KNOW A GARDEN ALBUM OUT MARCH 20, 2026

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2026 CANADIAN DATES BEGIN MARCH 27, U.K. AND EUROPEAN TOUR COMMENCES IN MAY - FULL DATES BELOW

“There's a particular way light particles interact that Montreal-based folk singer-songwriter Edwin Raphael captures in his thoughtfully expansive, globe-trotting soundscapes.Warm Terracotta, "Mosaic in the Sun" and "A Sunbeam Lent to Us Briefly," arrive with the breathless wonder of language's inability to articulate the emotional heft of a momentary prism falling upon the scene just so.” Exclaim!, Most Anticipated Albums of 2026

“Buzzing drones meet uplifting guitar melodies as Edwin Raphael’s imaginative narrative unravels on First Time on Earth. The ebbs and flows from bursts of energy to pulled-back introspective moments. Life brings with it more questions than answers, but it’s seeking beauty in the mundane, in the wonder of small miracles, that we find meaning."
CBC Music, 'Songs You Need To Hear'

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Later this March, Edwin Raphael’s new album, I Know A Garden, will be released, paving the way for a run of tour dates throughout Ontario and Quebec and then on to Europe. Today, the Montreal-based songwriter reveals another new track from the record.

“It’s A Shame You Swim So Well” is an “ode to helpless witnessing, the ache of watching someone walk straight into their own undoing despite every sign,” says Raphael. “It explores the paradox of strength: how someone can be so good at surviving the storm that they no longer recognize its danger. You knew the signs, read the skies, heard the thunder. You braced for impact. But they? They moved through it like it was nothing. Like they’d always belonged to the water, even the roughest parts of it.”

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MORE ABOUT EDWIN RAPHAEL
With roots in Kerala, India, Raphael studied classical guitar before deciding on the keys. As he developed an affinity for John Mayer and Ben Howard, he felt at odds with a distinct sense of “placelessness”. It wasn’t until he moved to Montreal to pursue a business degree that he felt a sense of stability, and became deeply entangled with the city’s indie bedroom pop scene.

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His debut EP Ocean’s Walk (2015) paired stirring, melancholic instrumentals with a fierce self-reckoning. It would set the stage for a string of releases that would dive deeper into the psyche; like confronting the aftershocks following a significant heartbreak, or relearning your emotional baseline as you mature. Subsequent releases, Cold Nights (2017),  Will You Think of Me Later? (2019), and its follow up Staring at Ceilings (2021), reveal an artist devoted to sharpening his ability to translate his experiences into ubiquitous statements. 

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The 2024 re-release of Will You Think of Me Later? has amassed 115 million streams on Spotify. Edwin has performed over 70 shows across 14 countries since 2023, sharing the stage alongside Palace, Hollow Coves, Noah Kahan, and more. He heads out on tour throughout Quebec beginning March 27 and a U.K. and European tour commences May 14  All dates are below.

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WATCH / SHARE “MOSAIC IN THE SUN” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
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I KNOW A GARDEN TRACKLIST
1 - First Time On Earth
2 - Moonstruck 
3 - Hymn for a Dragonfly
4 - Mosaic in the Sun
5 - Then There’s You
6 - It’s A Shame You Swim So Well
7 - Emerald to Gold
8 - It Will All Pass Anyways
9 - Ballroom Of My Memory
10 - Snake on the Road
11 - A Sunbeam Lent To Us Briefly Feat. Jordan Mackampa

2026 TOUR DATES
Mar 27 - Quebec City, QC - Grizzly Fuzz
Mar 28 - Jonquière, QC - Espace Côté-Cour
Apr 02 - Montréal, QC - Studio TD
Apr 08 - Gatineau, QC - Le Minotaure
Apr 10 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
Apr 17 - Lavaltrie, QC - Garage à Simon
Apr 18 - Frelighsburg, QC - Beat et Betterave
Apr 25 - Sherbrooke, QC - La Petite Boîte Noire
May 07 - Sainte-Thérèse, QC - Cabaret BMO
May 14 - London, UK - Lower Third
May 16 - Düsseldorf, DE - Stradtstrand
May 17 - Haarlem, NL - Patronaat Small Hall
May 18 - Hamburg, DE - Hebebühne
May 19 - Sibbesse, DE - Orangerie
May 21 - Vienna, AT - Club Lucia
May 22 - Munich, DE - Kult 9
May 26 - Zurich, CH - Xtra Music Cafe
Jun 20 - Brossard, QC - Square Dix30

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STATUS/NON-STATUS NEW LP OUT THIS WEEK, SHARE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “BONES”

STATUS/NON-STATUS NEW ALBUM, BIG CHANGES, DUE OUT MARCH 6, 2026 VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS

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LIVE PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN MARCH 13

“Hope and hopelessness teeter side by side, big drums and jingle dresses ring out beneath driving guitars, and questions about land, belonging, and survival linger long after the last lyric fades.” Atwood Magazine

“In a moment defined by fragmentation, Status/Non-Status offers something sturdier: music as community, and community as survival.” RANGE Magazine, Frequency Forecast 2026

“Adam Sturgeon and co. are back with an album centred on family.  …a record that’s raw and urgent.” CBC Music, Albums We Can’t Wait To Hear in 2026

“We have the utmost faith in Anishihaabe songwriter Adam Sturgeon and co. to mine the trials and tribulations of navigating life's Big Changes” Exclaim!, 2026 Anticipated Albums

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This week, Status/Non-Status will release their new album, Big Changes, a record about survival, but also about making connections in order to endure. Led by Anishinaabe musician and artist Adam Sturgeon, the record is the big noise we make together when the world feels like it’s falling apart, and the harmony that comes when we keep time with one another. At its core, Big Changes is an act of community-building. Though its songs focus on reckoning, reflection, and resistance, the album derives its strength from the people who contributed to its creation.

To help celebrate the album’s release Status/Non-Status are sharing the new video for “Bones”. Of the track, Sturgeon explains, “Post-colonial psychology and psychosis is a large frame of reference for me and my writings. Bones is another dive into and through the past to see where we have come and what is still very much out of our control. It’s an isolating feeling to feel the effects and how little our accomplishments have seemed to change things. Same old story, just a different day. From the fur trade to a doom scroll, what can I do to redirect my path, forge my own trail and exist in a way that connects me to a meaningful existence?”

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MORE ABOUT BIG CHANGES (by Jim Di Gioia)
Over the years, Adam Sturgeon has undergone a metamorphosis, shedding old monikers and reclaiming heritage. In 2021, the collective formerly known as WHOOP-Szo became Status/Non-Status as part of Sturgeon’s ongoing exploration of the complex roots of his family history. Together with Zoon’s Daniel Monkman (who makes a guest appearance on Big Changes), Sturgeon introduced the world to OMBIIGIZI in 2022 via their Polaris Music Prize shortlisted record Sewn Back Together. Regardless of which project Sturgeon is working on, though, the one thing that doesn’t change is how he treats it: like family, protecting it at all costs. Every reinvention, every reckoning, every return leads back to the same role: provider, protector, father.

Alongside Sturgeon, there is a host of both long-time and new collaborators and friends—like Eric Lourenco, Jessica O’Neil, and Kirsten Kurvink Palm—as well as an extended circle of artists (including Steven Lourenco and Sunnsetter’s Andrew MacLeod) expanding Status/Non-Status into an every growing collective of artists that embodies the push and pull that animates the album itself: the tension between consistency and change and living in solitude and solidarity. 

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Big Changes comes from living through what Sturgeon describes as “a war on people and their ways of being” while engaging in the everyday domesticity of dropping the kids off at daycare, heading into work, doing chores around the house, and figuring out how to survive “what is beginning to feel like a real apocalypse.” Inspired by his in-the-moment work with OMBIIGIZI, and with over 40 rough song ideas on hand, Sturgeon recruited Dean Nelson (Beck, Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks) and Matthew Wiewel (of Deadpan Studios and engineer of Status/Non-Status’ previous album, Surely Travel) to build a home studio in the old church he lives in with his family in London, Ontario. Everything on Big Changes “Is centralized around our Monday morning recording sessions,” he says, “and this routine of caring for my young family in a disintegrating and tough city.”

For Sturgeon, Big Changes also reflects his lifelong dialogue with duality, a dichotomy “...felt through the contrast of being a mixed person,” who sees “racism perpetuated against people more visible than myself, while also not feeling like I’m Indian enough.” The record tussles with that uneasy and impossible balance of simultaneously walking in two worlds with conflicting values. It’s less a statement of intent than a lived reflection, one that acknowledges tension without resolving it. “I don’t feel conflicted about where I stand, but I’m not sure I’m always seen,” Sturgeon says, adding that, “[on Sewn Back Together, OMBIIGIZI] found balance in the dichotomy of being damaged and using it as a tool to move forward. Big Changes, however, is foreboding and inquisitive about what is to come.”

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The song “Big Changes” brings these big ideas and concepts down to street level, reflecting the daily realities of life just outside Sturgeon’s own front door. “This song is about my hood, where I live and raise my family and what I see when I walk out the door,” he says, describing a neighbourhood “mired by gaps in the system” and burdened by housing crises, addiction, and lateral violence. Caught in the crossfire between bureaucratic inaction and a community’s will to survive, “Big Changes” expresses how people are forced into change simply to keep going, whether that change leads somewhere better or somewhere harder doesn’t really matter. What matters is endurance, adaptation, and the resilience to find ways to live with what’s left.

Despite its title, one thing that Big Changes doesn’t mess with is the music. Status/Non-Status hold fast to their intuitive and fluid style, their musicianship grounded in connection, familiarity, and an overarching trust in the power of their glorious noise. If anything, Status/Non-Status is more refined on Big Changes, summoning a sound that’s deliberate while retaining the untamed energy that first inspired them. Crunching guitars clock the daily grind of the nine-to-five on opening track “At All”, while bursts of ’90s indie-rock energy collide with sugar-coated power pop melodies on “Peace Bomb”. Ominous shades of gothic blues hang in the air on the title track, while the yin and yang of male and female harmonies (supplied by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Rachel McLean) on “Blown Again” temper abrasion with warmth. On “Basket Weaving”, a collaboration with Odawa poet and artist Colleen “Coco” Collins, contemplative acoustics and ambient synth textures intertwine with anthemic rock flourishes in an exploration of “ancestral experience of reconnection.” The influence of Canadian noise-rock pioneers Eric’s Trip runs like an undercurrent through Big Changes, especially in its community-minded spirit. That lineage comes full circle on the delicate lullaby ballad “Good Enough”, featuring Eric’s Trip Julie Doiron. “Working with Julie Doiron, my teenage hero and favourite bass player,” says Sturgeon, “is something I could only ever dream of. I don’t take accomplishing my dreams for granted,” he adds. “I am just so lucky Julie is such a giving and wonderful community member.”

Read the full album bio by Jim Di Gioia at https://www.killbeatmusic.com/statusnonstatus

STATUS/NON-STATUS TOUR DATES
March 13 - Zbtfd live in-store - Brantford, ON - w/Indian Giver
March 19 - Guelph, ON - Sonic Hall 
March 20 - St. Anne's - Tkaronto - Wavelength Music festival - w/ Ribbon Skirt
March 27 - Palasad - London, ON - w/ Indian Giver 
March 28 - Corktown Pub - Hamilton, ON - JUNOFest
May 13-16 - Great Escape - Brighton/UK

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BIG CHANGES TRACKLIST
01 At All
02 Peace Bomb
03 Big Changes
04 Blown Again
05 Basket Weaving
06 Arnold
07 Good Enough Ft. Julie Doiron
08 Bones
09 Bitumen Eye’s
10 Bitumen Eye’s II
11 Tom Climate

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THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS REVEAL “SPOOKY ACTION” FROM NEW LP, THE FORMER SITE OF

ACCLAIMED SUPERGROUP THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS’ NEW ALBUM, THE FORMER SITE OF, OUT MARCH 27, 2026 ON MERGE RECORDS

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 22 - TICKETS ON SALE NOW

“Over the course of their 20-plus-year career, the New Pornographers have often specialized in catchy ambiguity. If leader Carl Newman was just a machine cranking out power-pop tunes, it would get boring. But there’s also a lot of mixed emotions going on under the surface of their studiously nuanced pop-rock formalism—like if Cheap Trick was as quick-witted as Steely Dan, or the Romantics were as thoughtful as R.E.M.” - Rolling Stone

“pure, blissfully irresistible power pop” - NPR Music

“[The New Pornographers] make catchy, sophisticated alternate-universe hits.” - Stereogum

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The New Pornographers today share “Spooky Action,” the latest single from their highly anticipated new album The Former Site Of due March 27 on Merge Records. “Spooky Action” draws inspiration from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a NASA satellite which orbited Saturn for 13 years before diving into the planet and destroying itself. Frontperson A.C. Newman sings, ‘And I see the lone propeller, labor of moonlets, then one last turn… to take in Titan, the famous giant, the burning god // Oh have you seen the stray arc of Daphnis, at Keeler’s edge, the way that it’s meant to be seen?’

The album is available for pre-order now via both Merge Records and band’s webstore; presave/pre-order the album HERE. The record is also available in an exclusive “Mai Tai” LP variant HERE and “Spilled Ink” LP variant HERE.

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On The Former Site Of, the tenth studio album from the acclaimed supergroup, ten short stories of people at personal and societal extremes are collected as meticulously crafted pop songs. The record was first crafted by Newman in his home studio before being brought to the band, composed of Newman, Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins and Todd Fancey. The group is joined for the first time by storied session drummer Charley Drayton (Divinyls, The Rolling Stones, Fiona Apple). Josh Wells (Destroyer, Black Mountain) will join as the touring drummer for the band’s upcoming dates in the Spring. 

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Of the making of the album, Newman notes, “Having time in my studio really opened things up. I don’t like wasting my bandmates’ time, and always felt guilty when I’d give them a song, ask them to do something, then completely change the song and ask them to do it again. Now I can get the skeleton of a song together first—just a couple of elements, the key feeling, really as little as possible—before bringing it to the band and running from there.” 

The band will kick off their U.S. tour on April 22 at The Wilbur in Boston with stops at New York’s Webster Hall, Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom, Chicago’s The Metro, Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club and many more, with support from Will Sheff of Okkervil River. Tickets are available now at thenewpornographers.com, full details and a list of dates can be found below.

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In addition to “Spooky Action” the album features the group’s most recent singles, “Pure Sticker Shock” and “Votive,” subject of acclaim from The New York Times, Pitchfork, AV Club, Stereogum and more. The album’s first single “Ballad Of The Last Payphone” is available as a limited 7-inch vinyl first release; Paste named it one of their Best New Songs, raving that “‘Ballad Of The Last Payphone’ hits a different kind of nerve. Less giddy power-pop, more slow-burn meditation, the track leans into melancholy with acoustic strums, ghostly pedal steel, and vocals that swirl like a memory you can’t quite shake.”

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TOUR DATES
April 22—Boston, MA—The Wilbur*
April 23—New York, NY—Webster Hall*
April 24—Glenside, PA—Keswick Theatre*
April 25—Rochester, NY—Water Street Music Hall*
April 27—Detroit, MI—El Club*
April 29—Millvale, PA—Mr. Smalls Theatre*
April 30—Cleveland, OH—House of Blues*
May 1—Milwaukee, WI—Turner Hall*
May 2—Minneapolis, MN—The Fitzgerald Theater*
May 3—Chicago, IL—The Metro*
May 5—Englewood, CO—Gothic Theatre*
May 6—Salt Lake City, UT—The Commonwealth Room*
May 8—Seattle, WA—The Showbox*
May 9—Portland, OR—Aladdin Theater*
May 11—San Francisco, CA—The Castro Theatre*
May 12—Los Angeles, CA—Teragram Ballroom*
May 13—Phoenix, AZ—Crescent Ballroom*
May 15—Austin, TX—Mohawk Outside*
May 16—Dallas, TX—The Kessler Theater*
May 17—Baton Rouge, LA—Chelsea's Live*
May 19—Atlanta, GA—Variety Playhouse*
May 20—Saxapahaw, NC—Haw River Ballroom*
May 21—Washington, DC—9:30 Club*

*with Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)

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THE FORMER SITE OF 
1. Great Princess Story
2. Pure Sticker Shock
3. Ballad Of The Last Payphone
4. Spooky Action
5. Wish You Could See Me I'm Killing It
6. Votive
7. The Wine Remembers The Water
8. Calligraphy
9. Bonus Mai Tais
10. The Former Site Of

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