SHELF LIFE OUT APRIL 3 VIA BIRTHDAY CAKE
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TOUR DATES BEGIN FEBRUARY 22
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Today, Slow Leaves – Winnipeg singer-songwriter, Grant Davidson – announces his sixth-studio album, Shelf Life, due out April 3 via Birthday Cake. Known for his ability to breathe poetry into the ordinary, the JUNO Master Class alumnus continues his deep exploration of the self with Shelf Life. The 10-track LP leans into themes of romantic memory, domestic duty, artistic ambition, and dreams unfulfilled, underpinning the belief that there is indeed great strength in vulnerability.
The first single from the LP, “Miss You”, ponders “the slippery quality of time, which is a theme that runs through just about every song I write,” says Davidson. “In a sense, I’m preoccupied with the past, perhaps at the detriment of the present. I’m not great at looking ahead. Naturally, I miss certain things and certain people. I guess that’s life.
We recorded the song live as a four-piece band and I wanted to capture that quality in a simple video that borrowed from the style of nineteen-seventies television concerts.”
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Rooted in reflections on time, Shelf Life is a record about growing up to realize you are not the person you thought you would be. It is a collection of songs that wades between tides of past and present, success and failure, things lost and things found. The result is a collection of musical vignettes, woven together by the loose threads of a tangled life.
Recorded mostly live off the floor, Davidson teamed up with Rusty Matyas (Weakerthans), Damon Mitchell (New Meanies), and Rejean Ricard (Telepathic Butterflies) to bring the album to life.
The release of Shelf Life follows Davidson’s critically acclaimed works Enough About Me (2017) and Beauty Is So Common (2014), both garnering heavy rotation on CBC Radio 2. The Winnipeg Free Press described Enough About Me as “a gentle breeze of exquisite playing and keen observations that will reward listeners again and again and again.” The album also garnered Davidson a nomination for a Western Canadian Music Award.
Every song is an invitation to step inside Davidson’s inner world—a space of beauty and wisdom, coloured outside the lines. With warm voice and guitar, Davidson uncovers a humanity that shines in even the darkest corners.
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TOUR DATES
Feb 22 - The Ship & Plough - Gimli, MB
Feb 29 - Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club - Winnipeg, MB w/ Micah Erenberg
Apr 14 - Ironwood Stage & Grill - Calgary, AB
Apr 15 - Station on Jasper - Edmonton, AB
Apr 18 - The Stand Easy Legion - Jasper, AB
Apr 19 - Bo’s Bar and Grill - Red Deer, AB
Apr 23 - Capitol Music Club - Saskatoon, SK
Apr 24 - Flav’r Country Ranch - Langenburg, SK
May 13 - The Foundry - Thunder Bay, ON
May 15 - Black Sheep Inn - Wakefield, QC w/ Graven
May 16 - Dakota Tavern - Toronto, ON w/ Kelly Sloan
May 17 - URSA mtl - Montreal, QC
May 20 - The Garnet - Peterborough, ON
May 21 - Phog Lounge - Windsor, ON
May 23 - The Townhouse - Sudbury, ON
More Dates TBA
SHELF LIFE TRACKLIST
01 Looking Out My Window
02 Miss You
03 Sink Full Of Dishes
04 Time Was On Your Side
05 Autumn Rain
06 Wishes
07 Half Of The Bed
08 Try Again In The Morning
09 Without A Care
10 Sentimental Teardrops