LYDIA AINSWORTH STREAMS UPCOMING ALBUM AHEAD OF RELEASE DATE

STREAM DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE VIA CBC MUSIC

HEADLINING TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 19

DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW OUT MARCH 31 VIA ARBUTUS RECORDS

PRE-ORDER DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE

“...This is Ainsworth's creative sweet spot...an eerie, exquisite lullaby that drifts between delicate verses and mighty choruses driven by rich piano chords and electronic drums.” - NPR Music

“Among pop music’s experimental architects, Lydia Ainsworth has a unique knack for making grand sweeping gestures feel human.” - Pitchfork

“Now here’s a winter pop jam.” - New York Magazine’s Vulture

“...easily her biggest and most dynamic release so far.” - FACT Mag

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Available to stream today courtesy of CBC Music, Darling Of The Afterglow is Lydia Ainsworth’s second record and follow up to the JUNO Award nominated and critically acclaimed Right From Real (2014). The album features a team of local Toronto musicians, woven into Ainsworth’s programming, samples and string arrangements. “I usually have to be out of my element to get that spark of inspiration,” she says of songwriting. The songs on Darling Of The Afterglow began away from home, before being brought to fruition in her hometown.

STREAM DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE VIA CBC MUSIC

PRE-ORDER DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE
WATCH SOUTH X LULLABY SESSION FOR NPR HERE

Due out March 31 via Arbutus Records, Ainsworth will celebrate the release of the record with her first-ever headlining tour throughout North America. Full tour dates can be found below.

Darling Of The Afterglow mixes yearning pop with other-worldly synthetic sounds, plush classical settings and weird-gothic R&B influences. Lydia Ainsworth’s new album is a richly imagined, richly felt work of future-pop classicism – an album of intimate emotions projected in heightened widescreen. The stunning, 11-track Darling Of The Afterglow showcases a great leap forward from Right From Real’s already prodigious experi-pop riches.

WATCH AND SHARE “THE ROAD” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “AFTERGLOW” HERE

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DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW TRACKLIST
1. The Road
2. What Is It?
3. Ricochet
4. Afterglow
5. Open Doors
6. Spinning
7. Into The Blue
8. Wicked Game
9. I Can Feel It All
10. WLCM
11. Nighttime Watching

TOUR DATES
4/19/17 - Washington, DC @ DC 9
4/20/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
4/22/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
4/24/17 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott
4/25/17 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PBD
4/26/17 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
4/28/17 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
4/29/17 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
5/2/17 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
5/3/17 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
5/4/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
5/6/17 - San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall
5/8/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
5/30/17 - Brighton @ The Joker
5/31/17 - London @ London Fields Brewery
6/1/17 - Paris @ Escape B
6/2/17 - Antwerp @ Trix Bar
6/3/17 - Rotterdam @ V11
6/5/17 - Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich
6/6/17 - Colgne @ YUCA
6/7/17 - Berlin @ Kantine am Berghain
6/8/17 - Amsterdam @ Sugar Factory
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