HELENA DELAND SHARES NEW SINGLE, “HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW”

HELENA DELAND SHARES NEW SINGLE, “HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW”, OUT TODAY ON CHIVI CHIVI

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Today, Montreal’s Helena Deland shares the new single “How Do You Like Me Now” along with a visualizer. The song’s release comes before Helena joins her friend Hana Stretton for a handful of North American shows later this month. Full tour dates can be found below.

“How Do You Like Me Now” describes an act of trespass. At a party, Helena Deland slips toward the edge of the room; no one sees her as she eyes a notebook which belongs to the party’s host. She insists she would never read it, then lets herself imagine being caught, only to learn that its owner had wanted to be discovered all along. The journal becomes a mirror of songwriting: private processing made public and left to the interpretations of strangers. 

Helena Deland shares: “I wonder to which extent the authors of posthumously published diaries were writing with a vague audience in mind. Here, I’m convincing myself that a person I admire, very much still alive, has written everything down in their notebook in the hopes of it being found. When that day finally came, they’d say ‘That’s right. There I am. How do you like me now?’”

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MORE ABOUT HELENA DELAND
Helena Deland’s debut album Someone New was released on Luminelle Recording in 2020, introducing a new and resonant voice to the indie music scene. Three years later, she published the acclaimed Goodnight Summerland, with label and longtime collaborators Chivi Chivi. In parallel, she explored new soundscapes with Hildegard, her collaborative project with fellow Montreal musician Ouri. Together, they released two albums, 2021’s Hildegard and 2024’s Jour 1596. She has also worked with other renowned artists, collaborating with Men I Trust, JPEGMAFIA, Jonah Yano, Sam Evian, and claire rousay amongst others. Will Oldham notably shared a video of himself performing “The Animals” this past April, a song of Helena’s which originally appeared on Goodnight Summerland.

After opening for the likes of Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, Connan Mockasin, Soccer Mommy and Iggy Pop, Helena toured Goodnight Summerland across North America and Europe. This September, she will be presenting her new songs on stage for a short and intimate slate of shows with Hana Stretton.

HELENA DELAND - LIVE 
w/ Hana Stretton (solo performance)

Sept 24 - FONO, Ottawa, ON (TICKETS)
Sept 27 - Higher Ground, Burlington, VA (TICKETS)
Sept 28 - TOURISTS, North Adams, MA (TICKETS)
Sept 29 - Avalon Lounge, Catskills, NY (TICKETS)
Sept 30 - Manny's, State College, PA (TICKETS)

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CG TEARS SHARE NEW CHAD VANGAALEN VIDEO, LP OUT TODAY

CG TEARS, THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN CLINTON ST. JOHN, MORGAN GREENWOOD, AND CHAD VANGAALEN, DEBUT SELF-TITLED RECORD, OUT TODAY VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

SHARES NEW CHAD VANGAALEN ILLUSTRATED VIDEO FOR “ZOKU JENG”

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"CG Tears Is Your New Favourite Indie Supergroup. The Calgary trio's long-awaited debut transforms decades of friendship into something entirely new." RANGE 

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A collaboration between cryptic folk-influenced songwriter Clinton St. John (The Cape May, Pale Air Singers, Florida BC), producer and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Greenwood (Baths), and acclaimed solo artist, animator and illustrator Chad VanGaalen, CG Tears is the result of a trio of veteran musicians embracing mutual admiration and shared inspiration. Unexpected, elliptical, but always accessible, it’s the sound of three singular artists discovering just how well their eccentricities work together.

Today, they celebrate the release of their self-titled debut album with the new video for “Zoku Jeng” illustrated and animated by Chad VanGaalen. On the album track, the band says: “Zoku Jeng, is he a man? Is he a spirit?  Bathed in electric light, he moves through the swamp, cutting a massive figure above the cypress roots and fallen fronds.”

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MORE ABOUT CG TEARS
For the better part of 12 years, CG Tears was an intention more than it was a band. An expression of mutual admiration between songwriter Clinton St. John and producer Morgan Greenwood, the idea of a collaboration was pitched in 2013 but never quite coalesced. Musical ideas were shared, but with Greenwood uprooting himself to Los Angeles and joining the live incarnation of Will Wiesenfeld’s Baths and St. John pursuing his muse through a string of solo releases and a burgeoning visual arts practice, the project never quite found its footing.

That changed after 2020. Back in Calgary, Greenwood joined St. John’s latest project Florida BC, contributing synths to several tracks to their dark, folk-inflected debut. Always a prolific producer, Greenwood took the opportunity to share some of his latest creations with St. John, and this time it stuck. The skittering rhythms and echo-drenched synth pads of the tracks were worlds away from the dirge-like guitars of Florida BC, but they became a minor obsession for St. John, who set to work recording snippets of vocals and fleshing out lyrical themes.

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Moving from those initial ideas to finished songs was a process of discovery as much as creation, with St. John acting as musical dowsing rod searching for deeper wells of inspiration. Lyrics and melodies were improvised in stream-of-consciousness sessions, then sent to Greenwood for reassurance and revision. Themes and narratives would emerge from the depths, images suggesting themselves and pointing in unexpected directions. And with each iteration and each refinement, the two were increasingly convinced they’d struck on something special, a stream of impressionistic poetry and IDM production channeled squarely into the realm of pop.

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Eventually they had what they felt was a finished album, handing it to multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Chad VanGaalen to make the final mix. VanGaalen agreed to the task but disagreed that the album was done. To his ears, the songs were promising but incomplete, and he asked to take a more active role than just tweaking the mix. The duo indulged the request, and VanGaalen set to work recording additional instrumentation, adding backing vocals, and rounding out arrangements. Whatever skepticism there was quickly fell to the side; once they heard the additions, it was clear that CG Tears was a trio.

The resulting album is an unexpected pop gem. Fusing hazy Warp Records productions with off-kilter hooks and psychedelic undercurrents, it’s atmospheric and elliptical but always accessible. A dozen years in the making, it’s the sound of three singular artists discovering just how well their eccentricities work together.

CG TEARS TRACK LIST
01 I’m Falling Up
02 Blue Wall Of Ectoplasm
03 Off With Their Heads
04 On The Room
05 batsbats
06 Breezy Cell
07 Zoku Jeng
08 Night Arms Divider

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JORDAN KLASSEN SHARES NEW 90’S INSPIRED SINGLE + VIDEO, “FALL APART”

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Today, acclaimed songwriter Jordan Klassen is sharing his new 90s inspired single, “Fall Apart”. Raw, direct, and soaked in alt-rock DNA, the track marks a deliberate and thrilling reinvention from an artist who has spent years honing his craft across baroque pop, cinematic folk, and indie rock. 

“In the 90s before audio sampling was readily available on the internet, you used to be able to order CD-ROMs with usable clips,” explains Klassen. “I managed to get my hands on a few of these a few years ago and found a drum loop that I was absolutely over the moon for. That’s where ‘Fall Apart’ was born. I wanted it to allude to the music I grew up listening to in the 90s on pop radio, but without necessarily being a parody or something. ‘Inspired by’. 

“The song is about having these little moments where I realize I’m still prone to the same fears that I had back then when I was in middle school. They’re more grown up now, but at their core they’re the same. I sometimes wonder if most people have a lifelong internal enemy. Fear of the unknown, anxiety around rejection, an inability to trust. ‘Fall Apart’ is about the familiarity of seeing that old enemy pop its head up yet again.”

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MORE ABOUT JORDAN KLASSEN
Known for his vivid storytelling, distinctive voice, and a string of CBC Radio Top 20 singles, Klassen has long been a fixture in the independent music landscape. ”Fall Apart" heralds the beginning of the next chapter, with a new album expected in early 2027 that promises to be the boldest and most immediate work of his career.

Jordan Klassen has spent fifteen years earning his place as one of Canada's most respected and emotionally precise artists. Across countless albums and EPs, over 20 million streams, a devoted international following, and critical praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, and the BBC, he has been celebrated as a “singer-songwriter's singer-songwriter,” and his work has been defined by its quiet emotional depth and richly layered arrangements. Now, with new single "Fall Apart," he's sets out on a new sonic path. 

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