BYE PARULA’S NEW ALBUM SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING OUT TODAY

BYE PARULA’S NEW ALBUM SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING RELEASED TODAY VIA SECRET CITY RECORDS

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"Something Out Of Nothing captures Bye Parula at their sharpest: shimmering indie soul and funk layered beneath lyrics that shift between English, French, and Spanish" RANGE Magazine

“In Montreal, anything still seems possible. Including the danceable prog-pop of this now power-trio outfit. The grooves are tight, the funk flourishes in psychedelic directions, and echoes of Talking Heads are, of course, never far away.” ★★★ 1/2 – Rolling Stone Germany

“The distinctive traits of Bye Parula’s sound emerge from an extraordinarily eclectic mix: indie undertones, orchestral funk harmonies, deep basslines, gentle acoustic moments, and psychedelic escapades. Loic Calatayud-Sola, Sebastian Riquelme, and Sergio D'isanto—hailing from France, Chile, and Italy respectively—have made emigration a common language since settling in Montréal, and on this second album they showcase a highly refined art-pop aesthetic underpinned by increasingly bold songwriting. The work reveals all its qualities through a dense mosaic of vibes reminiscent of Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith, and Talking Heads. And when the tones become more unstable and unsettling, it’s easy to get lost in LABYRINTHS SATURATED WITH BRIGHT COLORS.” - Giancarlo Costamagna, Rockerilla

"I don’t know” by Bye Parula is a cinematic art-pop track born from the meeting of Italy, France, and Chile within Montreal’s music scene. Blending elegant funk, 1970s grooves, and sophisticated melancholy, the trio transforms the experience of migration into a shared musical language that feels warm and cosmopolitan.". - Hypfi 

“A blistering, ultra‑danceable single (KISSBURN)” – Radio France "ICI Occitanie" 

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On the heels of shows in London, Paris, and Berlin earlier this week, Bye Parula’s new album Something Out Of Nothing arrived in stores and on DSPs today via Secret City Records. In celebration of the release, the Montreal trio has shared the video for the infectious title track. “This one is like an introvert’s anthem, as if you see someone so free out in the world that you envy them and want to talk to them but you just can’t. Everything is going so fast in your head, but nothing comes out,” explains singer/bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola of the song. “I loved the two meanings of that title. As a band, we’ve made something out of nothing: We just worked our ass off, we didn't have connections, this was not our country, so it was like, ‘Yeah, we have to do something out of nothing to create this music….”  

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Produced by Robbie Kuster (Patrick Watson) and mixed by Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), Something Out Of Nothing features Calatayud-Sola, guitarist Sebastián Riquelme, and drummer Sergio D'Isanto working together with a team of collaborators, including Inuk singer/songwriter Elisapie, Bibi Club’s Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Morgan Moore and Karkwa keyboardist François Lafontaine.  

The album arrives following three additional pre-release singles: the atmospheric and velvety “Quand vient le soir”, the undeniable earworm of mirror-ball-twirling energy “KISSBURN”, and the sparkling, dancefloor-ready “I don’t know”. Bye Parula will play next at a hometown album release show on June 11th at La Sala Rossa, and they are also confirmed for multiple Canadian festivals this summer—including Northern Lights (Sudbury, ON), FEQ (Quebec City, QC), and Hillside (Guelph, ON). 

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Each weekday morning at around 10am, Bye Parula become the most popular band in Canada—if only for about 20 seconds. That’s when their 2023 single, “Still Got the Spirit”, is broadcast across the country on CBC Radio One as the opening theme to the network’s flagship arts-and-culture talk show, Q with Tom Power. The song’s smooth, supple groove and jabbing disco strings made it an outlier amid the ornate prog-pop vignettes that otherwise filled up their DIY 2023 debut album, I (also produced by Robbie Kuster and mixed by Warren Spicer), and the placement not only exposed these Montreal indie-scene newcomers to a wider national audience, it also catalyzed them to innovate and expand their sound. Where their earliest recordings captured a group of newly acquainted players still getting to know each other through musical communication, Something Out Of Nothing is a testament to their deepening friendships and increasingly intuitive interplay. The result is Something Out Of Nothing: a mercurial mix that draws from the orchestral groove of Serge Gainsbourg, the wounded melodies of Elliott Smith, the cosmopolitan rhythms of the Talking Heads, and the artisanal R&B of Dijon, all imbued with a 1970s cinematic sensibility that blurs the line between sunny, fuzzy fantasy and urbane sophistication.  

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Something Out Of Nothing is divided into two parts for the listener’s experience: ‘Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position’ and ‘Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position.’ Two atmospheres that seem diametrically opposed yet are ultimately and intimately connected. Whether racing through the night or settling into dawn’s light, each track is woven from the same thread: love made alive by care. In this way, the album unfolds as a complete story. Its standing-position songs celebrate how love moves us, while its sitting-position songs reveal how love holds us. Together, they remind us of the necessity of both movement and stillness, of brightness and depth embracing the joy that lifts us and the pain that grounds us. Urging us to dance. Urging us to pause. 

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BYE PARULA LIVE
06/11 - Montreal, QC - Sala Rossa (LP release Show) | TICKETS
07/10-12 - Sudbury, ON - Northern Lights Festival 
07/17 - Quebec City, QC - FEQ 
07/18-19 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival 

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SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING TRACKLIST
Side A - Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position
01 I don’t know
02 KISSBURN
03 I’m getting ready
04 Something Out Of Nothing
05 Home

Side B - Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position
06 Orange Blossom (There’s a million reasons)
07 Miedo de olvidar (featuring Elisapie)
08 Quand vient le soir
09 Needed
10 Burning down the house

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JACOB BRODOVSKY SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “KIDS”

JACOB BRODOVSKY’S NEW ALBUM, TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED,
DUE OUT JULY 10, 2026

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“Brodovsky makes music that feels conversational without ever losing its charge: Thoughtful, wry, big-hearted, and grounded in the kind of observations that linger long after the hook.” - Atwood Magazine

“Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour” — Exclaim!

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Next month, Jacob Brodovsky will release his new record, Tell The Kids We Tried, produced by Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson (MOONRIIVR). Today, the award-winning indie-folk songwriter, based in Treaty 1 Territory, is sharing one more song before the album’s release. “Kids” started as “a writing exercise to try and write a song with the title ‘tell the kids we tried’. At the time, my son was 2 and we had just found out that we were having another kid. I was/am really struggling with the idea of bringing kids into the world while knowing how hellbent we are as a collective civilization on destroying it. For me, having children has been a massive source of both optimism and dread. Being around children and watching them discover themselves is such an incredible gift to behold, while also terrifying to realize all the ways they could hurt themselves and the limits of my own abilities to protect them. 

The single arrives with a video featuring ‘archival footage’ of Jacob in his younger years. “I’ve always been addicted to attention from a very young age,” he explains. “I’ve definitely passed that trait onto my kids. I asked my folks if they had any footage of me from childhood putting on shows in our living room and my dad dropped off a hard drive with a literal terabyte of footage of me lip synching in my living room. The idea for video is to kind of poke fun at myself and the fact that very little has changed. I’m still addicted to attention, I’m still putting on shows, and I’m still pretty shameless about it all.”

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MORE ABOUT JACOB BRODOVSKY & TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED
In some cases, songwriters discover their writing is premonition only after living through the experiences their past-self penned. In 2025, Jacob Brodovsky lived through a loss of community that, at the time, he didn’t realize he’d foretold while writing his upcoming sophomore LP, Tell The Kids We Tried.

He began recording with a group of trusted friends and heroes. He brought a batch of songs to producers Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson, only to quickly discard many of them in favour of brand new songs stemming from a ‘Song Every Week’ songwriting challenge that the Winnipeg music community takes part in every Winter.

Without time to edit or really even think about them, these eleven songs revealed themselves to be more vulnerable and personal than previous work. With the help of John Mark Baron (Begonia, William Prince), Jason Tait (The Weakerthans, Bahamas), Keiran Placetka (Leith Ross, William Prince, Bros. Landreth), Charlotte Cornfield, Dominique Adams (Leith Ross, Madeleine Roger), and Taylor Jackson, they recorded live to an 8-track tape machine, quickly capturing the true expression of each song and being forced to commit to creative decisions in the moment. 

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After spending the vast majority of his life in the Jewish Summer Camp world, including becoming Co-Executive Director with his wife of the popular local community camp they met at over 25 years ago, political tensions forced him to walk away from both what he thought was his life’s work, and the community he grew up in just days after the birth of their second son. Many tracks like “Kids”, “Beneath It All”, “It’s Alright”, “Lack Thereof”, and “Older, Too” foreshadowed the upcoming loss of community that Jacob would experience while his child was being born. 

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The political and personal impacts live in each song, sharing the sense of loss and confusion Brodovsky felt through the process. At the same time, the collection of songs shares more hope than disappointment. With a close listen, many songs show the importance of finding true community, seeing good in tough situations, and learning to feel less allergic to growing up and getting older. 

On one level, the album is a clear message to Jacob’s former campers and staff. On another level, telling the kids we tried is directed at his own two children, hoping for understanding as to why he’s raising them in a world that’s getting harder and harder to believe in.

Finally, it’s a reminder for all of us as we try to carve space for kindness and community in an increasingly bleak time. Please, tell them we tried.

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TOUR DATES
Jun 24 - Winnipeg, MB - MBF Farm Tour # %
Jun 26 - Regina, SK - MBF Farm Tour # %
Jun 27 - Saskatoon, SK - MBF Farm Tour # %
Jul 09-12 - Winnipeg, MB - Winnipeg Folk Festival
Jul 25–27 - Lac du Bonnet, MB - Fire And Water Festival
Aug 14-17 - Ear Falls, ON - Trout Forest Music Festival #
Oct 22 - Toronto, ON - The Burdock

% Supporting Michael Bernard Fitzgerald
# Performing as Dom + Jacob (with Dominique Adams)

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TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED TRACKLIST
01 Past Mistakes 
02 Colorado Low
03 Kids
04 Restaurant
05 Older Too
06 Intermission
07 Lack Thereof (with Dominique Adams)
08 Downer
09 Beneath It All (with Charlotte Cornfield)
10 Winters (with MOONRIIVR)
11 It's Alright (with Dominique Adams and Taylor Jackson)

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MIND BATH ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, AQUEOUS

NEW ALBUM, AQUEOUS, VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR AND COMPANION NOVEL VIA METATRON PRESS, BOTH OUT SEPTEMBER 4, 2026

ALBUM FEATURES A COLLABORATION WITH BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND 

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“Montreal-based artist making tender, shimmering downtempo R&B” - The FADER

“‘Must Come Spring’ is a triumphant saga of tender poetry, transcendent melodies and textured R&B” - PAPER

“His R&B voice and meditative melodies transport us to a world where spirituality, sensuality, and intensity coexist. It is through his poetic stories that Mind Bath reveals himself in a more vulnerable way.” - VICE

“Mind Bath creates melodies as soothing as a long bath by candlelight.” - Red Bull

“Delicate vocals, with shades of spoken word poetry, fade into and resurge from synth-driven groove; visceral emotion echoes from sonic lacunae.” - Wonderland

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Mind Bath announces Aqueous, a conceptual literary-musical work comprising a full-length album and companion debut novel, both arriving September 4, 2026.

The album features a collaboration with fellow Canadian Beverly Glenn-Copeland on one of its tracks, while Mind Bath shares the new single “Seasons Change and So Do I Bitch” today.

Raised in a small town in the B.C. Rockies, Mind Bath developed a creative voice shaped by solitude, attuned to nature’s divinity and the inner worlds it unlocks. Across lush queer poetry, left-field production, and intimate vocals, his work has cultivated a devoted underground following rooted as much in spiritual devotion as sonic exploration. Expanding his vision into a multidimensional universe, Aqueous invites audiences not only to read and listen, but to experiment, reflect, and evolve.

Mind Bath’s most ambitious and fully realised work to date, Aqueous was completed during a two-year residency at Camp Flirty, a secluded gay cabin in the woods. But too cute and full of promise to remain hidden away, he has returned to Montreal, where the story began, to release the album via Lighter Than Air and publish the novel with Metatron Press.

On the new single Mind Bath says, “‘Seasons Change And So Do I Bitch’ is the grooviest heart opener I’ve ever written. Super cheeky and fun, yet rooted in mindfulness and freedom. Me, Nick Ferraro, and Forever were in a makeshift studio overlooking a lake, instruments stoned and the song composing itself. I wrote the lyrics and melody in 20 minutes and recorded it in one take. It was my first time experiencing that kind of clarity and ease in my songwriting. I hope you sing along."

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Aqueous is a psychedelic odyssey through the land of queer fantasy and mysticism. Part auto-fiction, part perverse hero’s journey, where an effervescent stardust boy cuts a hole in the sky and wakes up in a utopic new land, far removed from the oppressive, dusty dominions of the violent world on Earth, in search of healing and liberation.

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From radical queer joyous faerie woo to an underground darling’s music career, the abuse of power to vignettes of a sex angel rent boy, Aqueous is healing text. Enriched by a cast of rebellious artists and sublime outsiders in collective search of liberating the core wound in every gay inner child, Aqueous is an evocative and profound meditation on the fragments of a world of trauma and the resilience, humour, and self-interrogation required to see beyond it, right through to the heart.

With Aqueous, Mind Bath deepens his role not just as a musician, but as a world-builder, a world where fantasy is a tool for healing, art is a form of resistance, and imagination opens portals to new ways of being.

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AQUEOUS TRACKLIST
01 Acid Nine
02 Seasons Change And So Do I Bitch
03 The Idea Of A Wave Ft. Forever
04 Day Of Venus
05 L.A.K.E.
06 Bathe In Love
07 Sea Jasmine
08 The Thawing Of Your Grief
09 Shirtless In Black Wranglers
10 Dear Friend, Queer Friend Ft. Beverly Glenn-Copeland

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