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NEW LP, THE SHAPE OF YOUR NAME, DUE APRIL 5 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS, THE NEW LABEL FROM OUTSIDE MUSIC
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Last month, celebrated Toronto songwriter Charlotte Cornfield announced her upcoming third full-length LP, The Shape Of Your Name, and shared the album’s first single, “Andrew”. Today, she is sharing the new Southern Souls live video for the track.
Cornfield says “Andrew” could be “a song to a friend or a romantic partner but at its core it’s note to self, a reminder to step back and look at the bigger picture instead of dwelling on the minutia. We all have friends who we want to shake sometimes because their priorities feel out of whack, but on the flip side of that sometimes we’re that friend who needs shaking. When things get messy and absurd it helps be able to laugh at yourself, to laugh with someone, to shake it off and move forward.”
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Last week Charlotte Cornfield appeared on CBC q with Tom Power to perform “Andrew” as well as album track “Silver Civic.”
LISTEN TO CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ON CBC q HERE
Set to arrive April 5 via Outside Music’s new imprint Next Door Records, The Shape Of Your Name has a more honed studio sound than her scrappier 2016 release Future Snowbird, and for good reason: it was recorded in 5 different sessions over the course of 3 years. The songs are her strongest and most striking to date - contemplative and contemporary, funny and heart-wrenching - and they’ve got that stuck-in-your-head-for-days quality that Cornfield is known for. The Shape Of Your Name features a star-studded cast of collaborators including (but not limited to) Grammy-winning engineer Shawn Everett, Broken Social Scene members Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, and Charles Spearin, and Montreal songwriter Leif Vollebekk.
“My initial intention wasn’t to make a record at all,” Charlotte muses. “The whole thing kind of happened by accident. I went to The Banff Centre to do a residency and came out with these recordings that I knew I wanted to use for something but wasn’t sure what.” She brought the unfinished songs to her former roommate Nigel Ward in Montreal. “He fell into the producer role seamlessly. We took it slow and just tried things for a while until the vision settled in. There was no rush. It was freeing, and it gave the songs a lot of breathing room to develop.”
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For the past four years Cornfield has been booking and managing Burdock Music Hall, a small venue in the west end of Toronto. The job has offered her stability and a strong sense of place in Toronto’s bursting-at-the-gills music community. She’s also an in-demand drummer and side musician, and has worked closely with Tim Darcy of Ought, Molly Burch, Adrian Underhill, and members of Lake Street Dive. She has toured extensively in North America and Europe and has supported a huge range of artists including Broken Social Scene, Anais Mitchell, Daniel Romano, and Sam Amidon.
PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD
“Her songwriting is ravenous …work in the tradition of Dylan or
Townes Van Zandt” - The Globe And Mail
“ever-sharpening songwriter’s mill smartly constructed and executed …
2016’s first highlight” - Toronto Star
“Cornfield has proven her prowess in songwriting, making incredibly personal songs ring universal with listeners, creating a small but very inclusive world that one simply must submerge themselves in immediately” - CBC Music
“great performances…endearingly clever …landing in delightfully unexpected places” - Exclaim!
“a collection of vibrant, no-nonsense folk songs” - NOW Magazine
“a charming and breezy rung in the ladder to her inevitable fame and fortune” - BeatRoute
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD PERFORMANCE DATES
Feb 8 - Ottawa, ON - Megaphono (TICKETS)
Feb 9 - Toronto, ON - Jam Factory w/ Torres (TICKETS)
THE SHAPE OF YOUR NAME TRACKLIST
01 June
02 Storm Clouds
03 Balladeer
04 Andrew
05 Silver Civic
06 Wheels
07 Up The Hill
08 Peonies
09 Release
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