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HIGHS IN THE MINUSES OUT THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS
"Cornfield always makes sure that the emotions at the core of each song are accessible to everybody. Highs in the Minuses is about exactly that: the dizzyingly sweet moments that happen even when things feel unbearably bad." - Exclaim!
U.S. HEADLINE DATES AND DECEMBER CANADA DATES SUPPORTING STARS BEGIN IN NOVEMBER
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Today, Charlotte Cornfield shared “Pac-Man”, the crushing, emphatic final single off her new album Highs In The Minuses out tomorrow, Friday, October 29, via Next Door Records. Arriving today alongside its Ali Vanderkruyk-directed video, Cornfield wrote “Pac-Man” after having a strange dream about someone from her past: “At the time I was listening to Elliott Smith’s ‘Everything Reminds Me of Her’ over and over. There’s an effortlessness to that song that I love, but also a real heaviness. I tried to embody that duality on this one,” explains the Toronto-based artist. “This song really came to life in the studio. I have one guitar pedal and I cranked the gain on it, and Alexandra Levy (Ada Lea) got this heavy bass sound that’s almost like sludge metal. Liam’s tambourine playing destroys me. The whole thing kind of feels like bumper cars at a theme park.
Ali came up with the concept for the video, which has a Pac-Man theme,” she continues. “In it, I’m walking, crawling, and being dragged through linear landscapes: a cornfield, a lavender farm, an apple orchard, a hilly path. I collect objects along the way and then create a maze out of chalk, placing the objects in it and walking away. To me this captures both the fraught nature of the emotions in the song, and the calm of looking back at them from far away.”
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“Pac-Man” follows previous singles “Drunk For You”, “Partner In Crime”, and “Headlines”, which earned great press from Stereogum, NPR Music (NMF Spotify/Apple playlist), Brooklyn Vegan, The Alternative, and more. Cornfield will celebrate Highs In The Minuses with a short run of U.S. headline tour dates this November in Chicago, Washington D.C., Brooklyn and Philadelphia. She’ll then support Stars on select December dates in Toronto and Ottawa. See below for a current itinerary.
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Though the songs of Highs in the Minuses are highly personal, Cornfield wanted their sonic quality to convey the communal, aleatoric energy of live performance. With this in mind, she and the band allowed their psychic connection to express the emotional interconnectedness that comes with stories of heartbreak, self-discovery, and new love. Cornfield (guitar, piano, vocals), bassist Alexandra Levy (Ada Lea) and drummer Liam O’Neill (Suuns) convened in Montreal at the studio of Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen), whom Cornfield had originally met through a musician’s residency he founded at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In just five days, with minimal takes and overdubs—and with contributions from guitarist Sam Gleason (Tim Baker) and Stars singer Amy Millan—they set Cornfield’s vivid mini-memoirs to an earthen folk-rock symphony.
TOUR DATES
11/18 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
11/22 - Washington, DC @ Pie Shop #
11/23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right #
11/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA #
12/03 - Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix*
12/06 - Ottawa, ON @ The Bronson Centre*
# w/ 2nd Grade & The Glow
*Supporting Stars
