EMMA WORLEY ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE RECORD, FOREVER BEGINNER, SHARES NEW SINGLE

EMMA WORLEY’S NEW ALBUM, FOREVER BEGINNER, OUT SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 VIA ACRONYM RECORDS

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On her sophomore album, Forever Beginner, Emma Worley tucks grief, joy, humour, and pain into the same fold. Emerging during a transformative period in her life, one shaped by chronic illness, treatment, healing, and resilience, Forever Beginner is an open-hearted, self-reckoning body of work.

Having already shared the album’s first single, “Buddy”, today Worley reveals the pensive break up song “Comedy Club”. The track is about the “impossibility of fully understanding what we have while we have it,” explains Worley. “Weighing the scales of a relationship - what it gave, what it took, what was lost, and what might have been - the song reflects on the limits of hindsight and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the past. Set against a foggy late-night drive through an old neighbourhood, ‘Comedy Club’ describes the imprint of love lost.”

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MORE ABOUT FOREVER BEGINNER
Blending alternative folk and Americana, the album was crafted over two years with producer, multi-instrumentalist, and longtime collaborator Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station, Joan Shelley). The arrangements are a textural delight, with Worley’s tender voice and poignant songwriting at the centre. Featuring the talents of Julian Psihogios, Jasper Smith, Matt Kelly, Kendel Carson, Dylan Burchell, Will Kidman, Wyatt C. Louis, Lia Pappas Kemps, Tamara Lindeman, Ken Whiteley, Georgia Harmer, and more, Forever Beginner is both a shining emblem of Toronto’s remarkable music community.

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MORE ABOUT EMMA WORLEY
Hailing from Guelph, Ontario, and now residing in Toronto, Worley spent many years dedicated to a career as an emerging visual artist. Upon graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Worley garnered attention for her sculpture/installation work through exhibitions, installations, and residencies at various high-profile institutions. However, despite her burgeoning success in the visual-arts world, Worley found herself compulsively drawn towards creating the material that would become her debut album, Sentimentalist. Pulling from lived experience, triumph, heartbreak, and everything in between, the wisdom and grace of this collection is telling of Worley's dedication to relatable storytelling and emotional finesse.

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FOREVER BEGINNER TRACKLIST
01 Weekend Baby
02 Comedy Club
03 Hardware Store in Heaven
04 All For Nothing
05 Buddy
06 Forever Beginner
07 the song in my heart is a hard one to play
08 Cupid The Vandal
09 Known

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GIZMO ANNOUNCE DEBUT RECORD, SHARE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO

CHARLOTTETOWN ROCKERS GIZMO ANNOUNCE DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, ALL YOUR WORSHIPS, OUT OCTOBER 2, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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TOUR DATES BEGIN JUNE 17

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Gizmo are Charlottetown rockers inspired by the guitar-damaged pop of 1990s American slacker bands and their contemporaries on Canada’s east coast. A 120 Minutes band for the Gen Z set, they breathe new life into their vintage influences with a distinctive songwriting style and a frenetic live show.

All Your Worships, Gizmo's debut full-length, comes roaring out of the gate, picking up right where 2023’s livewire Buddy System EP left off without skipping a beat. The new material finds the band mining similar sources but reaching new heights, imbuing their carefully considered, structurally ambitious power-pop songwriting with more unexpected twists and turns. To record it, the band decamped to a converted community hall in Great Village, Nova Scotia with co-producers Alex Edkins (METZ, Weird Nightmare) and Loel Campbell (Wintersleep) in tow. They pulled 12-hour days, sleeping at the studio and capping off nights with drunken music listening sessions. The group bonded over their overlapping tastes, able to share a common language when referencing sounds and direction. Edkins and Campbell mixed the record, with Greg Obis (Stuck, Clearance) providing the finishing touches at Chicago Mastering Service.

Today, they share the new single, “Gift Shop”, a song that frontman Julien Kitson says “came to me after coming home to bleak winter conditions from a visit to Nashville. The trip gave me sudden inspiration for various reasons and when arriving home Gift Shop poured out of me in a brief amount of time. It is forever known to me as my first sonic attempt at a love letter.”

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MORE ABOUT ALL YOUR WORSHIPS
The material was hashed out at rehearsals and live shows from 2022-2025, with the band taking a more collaborative approach to composition. This is in stark contrast to Buddy System, largely written solo by frontman Julien Kitson. This time around, each member brought songwriting contributions — bassist Spencer Swaine and guitarist Patrick Stephen take up lead vocals on their tracks “Crystal Palace” and “Faulty Straight Edge Downfall”, respectively. This does not diffuse a clear sense of direction, though. The lyrics take a stream-of-consciousness, observational approach to themes of heartache and coming of age, all topped off by a whip-smart deployment of non-sequiters, inside jokes, and maritime colloquialisms. 

The arrangements further compound this unified vision; crisp acoustics, warped offset riffs, melodic basslines, and the laserpoint precision of drummer Daniel Hartinger merge to create an underlying sonic palette. This cohesion is what makes the record's diversity work — standout tracks like "Antiques Roadshow”, “Celestial”, and album closer “Pantone 312” are disparate on the surface, but all unmistakably Gizmo. All Your Worships is a 10-track mission statement from the rare breed of band that arrives fully-formed, confidently settling into their first LP and suggesting a myriad of possibilities for the future.

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MORE ABOUT GIZMO
Formed in Charlottetown in 2021, their debut four-song EP Buddy System was released in August 2023. Its guitar-driven melodies and catchy hooks quickly earned them a growing audience and won them Rock Recording of the Year at the Music PEI Awards. Following its release, the band signed a publishing deal with CYMBA Music Publishing and continued writing and refining new material in rehearsal spaces and on the road.

Early on, the band toured steadily, building a devoted fanbase through their live performances, sharing stages with acts like Wintersleep, Paper Lions, Cootie Catcher, and Two Hours Traffic, and playing festivals such as Sommo Festival, Project Nowhere, and Nowadays Fest.\

In 2025, following a standout performance at Showcase PEI, the band signed to both Victory Pool Records and Noisemaker Management and quickly landed summer 2026 festival slots at Hillside and Paris Drinks Fest.

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TOUR DATES
Jun 17 - Ottawa, ON - Club SAW
Jun 18 - Toronto, ON - The Baby G 
Jun 19 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
Jun 20 - Brantford, ON - Brandi’s 
Jun 22 - Kingston, ON - Broom Factory 
Jun 23 - Montreal, QC - L’Esco
Jul 17-19 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival
Aug 14-15 - Paris, ON - Paris Drinks Fest

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ALL YOUR WORSHIPS TRACKLIST
01 Antiques Roadshow
02 Celestial
03 Gift Shop
04 Kaleidoscope
05 Kissing Our Days Goodbye
06 Crystal Palace
07 Walking The Floor
08 Railway 2
09 Faulty Straight Edge Downfall
10 Pantone 312

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PHARIS & JASON ROMERO’S NEW LP OUT TODAY, SHARE NEW SINGLE

PHARIS & JASON ROMERO’S NEW ALBUM, THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT TURN IN TO YEARS, OUT TODAY

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PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN JUNE 22

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Today, four-time JUNO Award-winning singers, songwriters, banjo builders, and folk icons, Pharis and Jason Romero release their new album, These Are The Days That Turn Into Years. Their seventh studio record is a songwriter’s deep exhale, replete with stories, love, and nostalgia. It’s four years after the duo’s banjo-heavy last release, and recorded in the same eclectically restored riverside barn in Horsefly, British Columbia. With Pharis’ love of storytelling as a base for the duo’s artistic connection, the songs are lush and saturated with their lives: incidental touring, raising two kids, making banjos, and playing this music because they love it. 

The songs are created as much from ideas - from being on the tops of mountains and phone calls with aging loved ones to insomnia, meditation and family feuds - as they are from the joy of playing and recording with a stellar band: fiddle, bass, piano, and percussion. Two people in the thick of their lives, reveling in the music, words, and community.

In celebration, they are releasing the new single “Cannonball” which saw its birth on a family camping trip. “Pharis took our daughter on a backcountry alpine overnight last summer,” explains Jason. “It was a sleepless night for her, with a spooked dog ending up in the tiny tent and her ending up on the bottom of a dog-kid pile. But at 1:30am, to the sounds of coyotes and owls in the distance, one of the songs on this record popped into her head. Thank goodness for voice memos. The song came right out of the gates, nearly fully formed in her head, and we watched it grow while Trent Freeman (fiddle) and Patrick Metzger (bass) and John Raham (percussion) layered on such good textures. Every time we sing that song she's immediately back in that tent on the mountain, mumbling words on top of a guitar riff playing in her head. On a coming-of-age trip like that with our daughter the words “mama I’m a cannonball, mama I can’t go slow, when I get to where I’m going I’ll let you know” pretty much wrote themselves.”

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MORE ABOUT PHARIS & JASON ROMERO
Pharis and Jason Romero have a classic story. When some scratchy old records and a custom banjo led to their meeting in 2007, they quickly knew they were in for the long haul. The depth of their musical and personal relationship has grown incrementally over the years as they’ve explored old-time stringband music, how to sing like one person, and the banjo as an artform. 

On their newest record Pharis’ love for the compelling pulse of stories as songs is the base for the duo’s artistic connection. The songs are lush and saturated with their lives: phone calls with ageing loved ones, standing on top of mountains, meditation, family feuds, nostalgia for things that haven’t happened yet, sleepless nights. The lyrics capture tender, lovely and strange snapshots of life, often anchored by sing-along choruses.

These Are The Days That Turn In To Years was recorded in their eclectically restored riverside barn. John Raham (Frazey Ford, Dan Mangan, Tanya Tagaq, Ocie Elliott) engineered and mixed, marking “the fifth record that John has come to make with us in Horsefly,” says Pharis. “I can’t imagine making a record without him, Trent (Freeman) or Patrick (Metzger). The songs are created as much from ideas as they are from the joy of playing and recording with friends and stellar musicians.” 

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The group was also joined in the studio by Clinton Davis on piano and Pharis’ sister Marin Patenaude who makes a vocal appearance on the insomnia-inspired “Last Night”. The band’s joyful, slightly on-the-edge old-time approach often playfully stretches the melody into an energetic ride through the bouncier songs, while ambient strings and ragtime piano hold some of the more introspective pieces. The duo keeps to their roots with the spare banjo blues “Left My Home”.

Pharis and Jason tour incidentally while they’re raising two kids and making banjos in their home of Horsefly, BC. They play this music because they really, truly love it, and this record is a shining development of stories, love, and nostalgia from this unique duo.

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Jun 22 - Port Townsend, WA - Voice Works 2026
Jul 11 - Horsefly, BC - Arts On The Fly
Jul 16 - Williams Lake, BC - Performances In The Park
Aug 6 - Salt Spring Island, BC - Pitchfork Social

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THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT TURN IN TO YEARS TRACKLIST
01 Big Time World
02 Last Call
03 Hey Babe
04 Always Losing Track
05 Last Night
06 Left My Home
07 Cannonball
08 I Got Away From Myself
09 Everybody Wants
10 Georgie
11 These Are The Days

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