BODYWASH RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE, “COME AND GO”

BODYWASH, THE MONTREAL DUO OF ROSIE LONG DECTER AND CHRIS STEWARD, SHARE “COME AND GO”, OUT NOW VIA LIGHT ORGAN RECORDS

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Bodywash is the Montreal duo of Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward, a project they launched after first meeting in college, finding common ground between British dream pop, classic shoegaze, folk, and atmospheric pop. Their self-titled debut EP quickly earned attention in the local Montreal scene, and their 2019 full-length Comforter, sharpened their sound into a distinctive mix of airy vocals, intricate guitar work and pulsing synths. Bodywash returned in 2023 with I Held the Shape While I Could, a darker and more adventurous second album exploring themes of decay, instability, and the shifting meaning of home. 

The record drew renewed attention around singles including “Massif Central” and “No Repair”, and further established the band’s reputation for pairing lush, immersive sounds with lyrical songwriting. Now, Bodywash begin their next chapter with the upcoming single “Come and Go”, a first glimpse of where their sound is heading next. Direct and kinetic, "Come and Go" points forward without abandoning what has made the band stand out: a dynamic interplay between vocals and guitars; adeep feel for tension and release; and songs that balance melody and atmosphere with friction and dissonance

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“I wrote ‘Come and Go’ mostly in one go at home, improvising on vocal and bass, and then I brought it to Chris, playing it for him on guitar in the studio,” Rosie explains. “Normally I write on keys and make a demo, and he helps flesh it out, or vice versa. But after our last album we wanted to try writing more in the room together. As we played through the song together, and Chris wrote the riff, it came together really quickly in a shared burst of energy that’s only really possible in-person. The song itself is really influenced by the built environment of Montreal—the forty auto route, the new buildings popping up around the University de Montreal campus, this crazy animal-themed light show in Laval. It describes scenes I’ve shared with my girlfriend and my bandmates here, and the sort of temporary or transitory feeling that comes with living as an artist in Montreal, or anywhere really—the sense that there could always be an end date on the horizon.”

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LAUREN DILLEN ANNOUNCES DEBUT EP, SHARES NEW SINGLE

LAUREN DILLEN’S DEBUT SOLO EP, BLUE STAR, OUT SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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Lauren Dillen’s songs are arborescent, ever-growing outward with tender determination. This suits the Toronto singer-songwriter, whose love of plants extends from the metaphors in her songs to the plant cyanotypes she crafts as album artwork to her work as a tattoo artist specializing in vintage botanical designs. With a mindful approach, Dillen’s folk songs uncover the understory by keenly observing what’s on the surface. As she sings, ‘we watch the leaves shoot up as the roots shoot down.’

While Dillen’s soothing voice and deft musicianship can be heard through her work with folk-rock quartet Burs, her solo project is all about self-work and following her instincts. In recent years, she has brought this work to stages across Canada, opening for artists such as Charlotte Cornfield, Bahamas, and Great Lake Swimmers, as well as performing at festivals and touring extensively across the country, steadily building a reputation for intimate but expansive live performances.

Today, she announces Blue Star, her debut EP, which sees Dillen emerging from a “very passionate and difficult” time in her life. “My early twenties were all about working hard and striving for perfection despite what my body wanted, acting on obligation rather than joy,” Dillen explains. “I’m learning that it’s my job to advocate for my body as if it were my small child.” The result of this growth can be heard throughout Blue Star, with Dillen feeling more confident than ever to articulate just what she means: “My channels are clear, and I can be honest.”

Accompanying the EP announcement is the new single, “Deepest Part Of Love”. “Like lots of my writing, ‘Deepest Part Of Love’ is a relational song,” explains Dillen. “A close person once shared with me some relationship advice: for a relationship to succeed, the love must multiply via the participants. When writing this song years ago (2020), I explored that idea with an understanding that at the centre of any love is a point of metaphorical conception - where what is born from love becomes real (material or not). Where, once created, ‘we are the mother of the seed with our hands in the ground’, and now the thing needs caring for. Mistakes happen, people are let down, but like a child, something new now exists, and will forever look us in the eyes. I think this song is one about long-time love and forgiveness.”

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The record is anchored in questions of identity and how it becomes attached to people and things. The focus track, “Chains/Rings”, unfolds as a coming-of-age lesson in detaching self-worth from romantic validation and breaking cycles of external approval. “Deepest Part of Love” and “Candles” both turn toward long-term relationships and commitment, examining what it takes to build and sustain healthy love.

“One More Time for the Road”, the first release from the project, moves through the disorientation of relapse and return, circling familiar emotional patterns and the pull toward once-familiar forms of validation.

The performance on the EP’s title track, “Blue Star”, draws directly from Dillen’s work in Toronto’s ambient music scene, using a freeze pedal vocal effect to create a suspended, reflective space within the record. Functioning as a pause in the narrative, it gently compels the listener into a moment of reflection.

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Dillen began the EP with a day of recording at the National Music Centre in Calgary. In the studio that houses one of Neil Young’s microphones and Elton John’s original songwriting piano, Dillen brought these songs to life with gentle production support from engineer Graham Lessard (The Barr Brothers, Timber Timbre). Inspired in part by ambient organist Molly Raben, Dillen found herself drawn to the studio’s pipe organ (as she puts it, “that’s an insane instrument, I must use it!”), creating a reedy atmosphere that runs through much of the record.

The throughline of Dillen’s music over the years has always been truth-seeking. With refreshing, intentional arrangements, she shares songs with the intimacy of sharing a garment. “These songs aren’t necessarily the truth,” Dillen explains, “but I write them out to explore the truth, to explore what something actually looks like.” Dillen unveils the feelings that linger behind relationships, where the most precious details surface only in soft light.

The closer, “Wildflowers of North America”, draws its name from an inherited botanical textbook marked by a sticky note from her grandmother on a page featuring the blue star flower, reframing the EP’s central question into something perhaps more delicate: not only who we are in relation to others, but what remains in the fleeting texture of shared moments.

With a fresh excitement for performing her music and a newfound connection to her own truth, Lauren Dillen is basking in all that arises. “I don’t have to push towards the things that I want,” Dillen reflects, “I can just allow them to unfold.”

TOUR DATES
Jun 23 - Bellevue, AB - Ophelia Outpost ^
June 24 - Lethbridge, AB - Owl Acoustic Lounge ^
June 25 - Calgary, AB - Modern Love ^
June 26 - Red Deer, AB - Vin L Den ^
June 27 - Edmonton, AB - The Buckingham ^
June 28 - Saskatoon, SK - Art Bar ^
June 29 - Regina, SK - The Exchange ^
June 30 - Winnipeg, MB - Handsome Daughter ^

^ - supporting Northcote

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BLUE STAR EP TRACKLIST
01 Overture
02 Chains/Rings
03 Deepest Part of Love
04 One More Time For the Road
05 Blue Star
06 Candles
07 Wildflowers of North America

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FATHER OF THE YEAR SHARES NEW FATHER’S DAY SINGLE

FATHER OF THE YEAR, AKA SINGER-SONGWRITER CAMERON REED,
RELEASES “WHEN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH” ON FATHER’S DAY VIA 444%

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Everyone knows they need to change. It takes loving someone to make that knowledge unbearable. "When You Hold Your Breath", the second single from Canadian singer-songwriter Cameron Reed as Father Of The Year. 

For a project this unguarded, Reed arrives with unlikely background credentials. Previously known as Babe Rainbow, a Warp Records-signed electronic project whose work Pitchfork described as "overcast, suffocating sonic landscapes," Reed pivots with Father Of The Year into altogether more personal territory. The singer-songwriter tradition has always made room for men who fall short. It hasn't often had to accommodate a generation of men who have the language to understand themselves completely and nothing to show for it.

Where Father Of The Year’s first single, “The Fixer”, introduced the central character at his most fortified, "When You Hold Your Breath" finds him at his most open. The arrangement, conceived by producer and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Vincent, carries the same warmth of organ, brass and strings, the same loose mid-tempo groove, but the emotional register has shifted. This is not a man fixing problems nobody asked him to solve. This is a man learning to listen.

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The song turns on a private language two people build in the silence between words. ‘When you hold your breath, I hear every word unspoken / When you're lost in thought, I'll never know where you go.’ He can feel everything she isn't saying. He will never fully reach her. In a crisis just one look will hold us together / When I see you exhale then I know you found your way home.’

While “The FIxer” highlighted a man who couldn't stop talking, he learned that the things left unsaid are the ones still in our command. It is not a comfortable admission for someone like him. "I'm not a humble man" he concedes, before the song opens into something larger, love not as a problem to be solved but as a defiance of everything that would diminish it. ‘In defiance, we'll sing as Death comes to take us / 'Cause our love assures we'll be heard through the Great Unknown.’

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