FROM BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TO HIS PRESTIGIOUS SOLO CAREER, JASON COLLETT CELEBRATES TWO DECADES WITH BEST OF LP, DUE OUT MARCH 19 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
BUY / STREAM ANDY SHAUF PRODUCED “CRAB WALKING HOME IN THE RAIN” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “CRAB WALKING HOME IN THE RAIN” MUSIC VIDEO HERE
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"Collett dispenses with the mundane conventions of the singer/songwriter genre as he forges portraits both intimate and worldly over engaging arrangements and lyrics." - Paste Magazine (on 'Idols Of Exile' ★★★★☆)
"What Collett does know... is craftsmanship. While so many insurgent folkies treat sonics and structure as afterthoughts, Collett suffuses his music with a level of playfulness and variety that's reflective of his membership in the acclaimed indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene." - Pitchfork (on 'Rat A Tat Tat' ★★★☆☆)
"Jason Collett is difficult to musically pigeonhole... even if the album is mainly about loss and the results of a sagging economy on the working class, the songs never sink to the downbeat morass of its socio-economic subject matter. On the contrary his voice... is boyishly refreshing even when the music is as stark" - American Songwriter (on 'Reckon' ★★★★☆)
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Jason Collett has worn many hats over a story-filled career now spanning twenty years. He sprang from the close-knit movement-defining Toronto collective Broken Social Scene, earning success in his own right as an indie rock troubadour with a warm and poetic tone. Now, Jason Collett’s career-spanning Best Of album will be released March 19 on his lifelong label Arts & Crafts. The thirteen song collection crystalizes moments from an ever-changing era, fusing vital threads that connect us to our musical family.
Best Of is spearheaded by the singer-songwriter’s first new recording since 2016’s Song And Dance Man. “Crab Walking Home In The Rain” was arranged and produced by beloved indie folk artist Andy Shauf, marking his first production for another artist. Shauf’s signature touch – chiming guitars, sprinkled with piano, interjections from the clarinet section – lift Collett’s lyrical slights-of-hand in a seamless stroke of inverted melancholy. “Crab Walking” is less a lament for times disappeared than it is a unifying call for the present. “Old haunts and landmarks that once were and are no longer. Conjuring good memories of good times,” Collett reminds.
BUY / STREAM ANDY SHAUF PRODUCED “CRAB WALKING HOME IN THE RAIN” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “CRAB WALKING HOME IN THE RAIN” MUSIC VIDEO HERE
Andy Shauf shares, "I’ve been a fan of Jason Collett for a long time so when he asked me to work on a song of his, I was really excited. I’ve never really felt that I had the right personality to be a producer - guiding the session and making people feel at ease - so when Jason explained that his idea was for me to produce the instrumental on my own for him to sing on, I was even more excited. Recording and arranging are definitely my favourite parts of the process, so to get to do just that to an already great song was awesome. I’ve always seen Jason as a bit of a crooner for some reason, so I tried to take the song a bit further in that direction."
Jason Collett appears every few years with a new songbook of sharp-witted musical commentary, each with a unique sonic tint. His music continues the tradition of everlasting artists like Nick Lowe, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, and Tom Petty, a treasured scribe of our place and our time. A member of the Arts & Crafts label from start to present, Jason Collett’s Best Of is a document of a true artist, endemic to our creative community.
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BEST OF TRACKLIST
01 Bitter Beauty
02 Blue Sky
03 Fire
04 Hangover Days
05 I’ll Bring The Sun
06 Charlyn, Angel of Kensington
07 Through The Night These Days
08 Lake Superior
09 Love Is A Dirty Word
10 My Daddy Was A RocknRoller
11 Song And Dance Man
12 Love You Babe
13 Crab Walking Home In The Rain
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