Jolie Laide releases a series of B-sides and curiosities entitled In The Low Light EP, following up their acclaimed early 2025 album Creatures. The songs arrive after a summer of touring some of Canada’s largest festivals, including Calgary, Winnipeg, and Canmore folk fests, as well as Hillside in Guelph, and Ottawa Bluesfest. These tracks were recorded during the Creatures sessions on Vancouver Island with producer Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, The New Pornographers). The b-sides include two new original Jolie Laide songs and a rousing cover of Carl Perkins’ “Honey Don’t” which showcases the powerful duet voices of Nina Nastasia and Clinton St. John.

“Honey Don't” was a “fun exercise to take a song that would seem like an unlikely pick in its original form and turn it into a Jolie Laide song,” the band says. “It surprised us as a band in how defined our sound came across as uniquely Jolie Laide.”

EP title track, “In the Low Light” details “when the body will not wait for the ‘proper’ setting,” the band explains, while “Ranchlands Hum” highlights the “unexplained hum in a small suburb in Calgary that residents have come to accept. Either you go on with your day and let it drift out of focus, or you get caught in the distraction that eventually drags you to madness. ‘The maniacs are running down the hall…’ We are the victims of our own brains, and it takes great effort to let the hum drift out of focus for a moment of quiet.”

Comprised of revered American indie singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia (who has amassed a stunning and critically acclaimed discography of unique, darkly melodic albums), and Jeff MacLeod, Clinton St. John, and Morgan Greenwood (also of the band Florida BC), Jolie Laide planted its roots some two decades ago through a mutual connection. The lion's share of Nastasia's solo albums were masterfully recorded by the late, great Steve Albini, and in the mid-00s, MacLeod and St. John's old band The Cape May had just finished recording their album Glass Mountain Roads with the veteran engineer. Nina was next in line for the studio. A night of commiserating in the studio led to Albini’s suggestion that The Cape May become Nastasia’s touring band for her upcoming North American and European tours and this pairing turned into a fruitful collaboration and a longstanding friendship.

Looking back on the trajectory from Jolie Laide's self-titled debut to the brand new Creatures, it's anyone's guess where this group will go next. For fans of Nina Nastasia or the Florida BC band family, there's plenty of both of those things, but there's also a whole new, unified thing; with Creatures they're presenting it in widescreen.