MIKE EDEL’S NEW LP, EN MASSE, OUT NOVEMBER 20, 2020 VIA PENNANT
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Today, Mike Edel announces En Masse, his fourth album filled with co-writes and collaborations. Mixed by Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire, The National) with additional production by Andy Park (Noah Gundersen, The Head And The Heart), the LP is due out November 20, 2020 via Pennant.
Along with the announcement is the video for recent single, “Good About Everything”. “If I could co-write a song with Springsteen and The National, then put a bit of pixie dust on it, ‘Good About Everything’ is it,” says Edel. “I co-wrote the song with two friends in San Diego after a night of eating ramen, riding around on scooters, getting denied from a capacity tiki bar, and after seeing some friends’ show. We ultimately decided to write about what a good night we had the night before.”
“Good About Everything” embraces contentment in the present, and while inflated house prices, our unknown futures, the US immigration system, and traffic get us down on the daily, let’s focus on the good: good people, good friends, good lovers.
Set as a traditional dance video, Edel plays the ‘mike-ro-managing’ director in the official video for the single. Nothing seems to please him, until amidst the increasing chaos he needs to look inward and accept his true self and embrace the chaos and collaboration
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En Masse is an item quest about discovery. The collective instincts, intuition and melody of a cast of collaborators. “The writing, recording and production were guided by the collective instincts, intuition and melody of a cast of collaborators,” says Edel. “With this project I wanted to bring in outside ideas and methods to help me formulate a new energy and because of this, En Masse has expanded my artistic capacities.”
The new LP follows up Edel’s Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) produced 2019 record, THRESHOLDS. After THRESHOLDS, 4 million cumulative streams across major platforms, landing a song on ABC’s American Idol, in heavy rotation on CBC Music, AAA Radio across the United States, and on Sirius XM’s The Verge and North Americana; after playing hundreds of shows across North American and Europe including Rifflandia Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Regina Folk Festival, Victoria International Jazz Festival, and Upstream Music Festival; after sharing the stage with Serena Ryder, Foy Vance, Said The Whale and Josh Garrels; and after moving to Seattle, WA and getting married, Edel has established himself as a creative tour de force with plenty on the horizon.
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EN MASSE TRACKLIST
01 Hello Universe
02 Good About Everything
03 Sunshine
04 Lose You
05 Giving Up On Giving In
06 Still Thinking About You
07 Need You
08 Hockey Guy
09 Balcony
10 The Distance