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DOWNTOWN EP SET FOR RELEASE JULY 29, 2022
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“One of my favourite guitarists has a new album out. Great songs with great changes and great playing” John Mayer
"He cannot be stopped. ...showing off not only his guitar playing but his songwriting" - Talia Schlanger (On CBC q)
“smooth, soulful... The expertly self-produced sound is a nice mixture of slide guitar, bass, and that popping percussion, with Ariel’s creamy vocals on top.” - Great Dark Wonder
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Many artists, when they write for albums, end up with a batch of songs much larger than what eventually makes its way onto a record. In the case of Ariel Posen’s new EP, Downtown, the celebrated songwriter and guitar player says he’d “been sitting on so much music between my last record Headway and future projects that I felt that I had a collection of five songs that I absolutely love, but didn't quite hear them on albums outside of one that could just keep them together in one.”
Today, Posen is sharing one of those tracks, “Always Saw Coming”, “a fictional story about someone that is trying to find themselves through the journey that is life,” says Posen. “In the end, by trying to make the most of life by trying every journey that was not set out for them, they end up falling back in to what was originally set out for them. The chorus lyrics kind of say it all:
isn’t it just expected
the things you can never predict
isn’t it unexpected
what you always saw comin’
This is song written alongside my friend, Leith Ross and I'm quite excited about the musical departure and new territory that was explored on it! Though it still sounds like me!”
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MORE ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN EP
Musically, Downtown explores some new territories which Posen felt “like there were some extremely exciting musical things happening. Therefore, it felt right to make the Downtown EP. I love each of these songs, and they really have a cohesiveness.”
The album was recorded in the Summer and Fall of 2021 in Montreal, Winnipeg, and Norwich, UK, and then mixed in Los Angeles. “Although we were all afar when we recorded this project, I feel like we could not have been more in tune with each other and understood the assignment in serving these songs to bring a musical and lyrical theme to fruition,” says Posen.
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MORE ABOUT ARIEL POSEN
Ariel Posen's music occupies the space between genres. It's a rootsy sound that nods to his influences — heartland rock & roll, electrified Americana, blue-eyed soul, R&B, Beatles-inspired pop — while still moving forward, pushing Posen into territory that's uniquely his own.
Posen began recording his last album, Headway, in December 2019, one week after wrapping up an international tour in support of his acclaimed debut, How Long. He'd been on the road for a year and a half, playing shows across the U.K., Europe, America, and his native Canada. Along the way, Posen had received standing ovations not only from his audiences, but also from outlets like Rolling Stone, who dubbed him "a modern-day guitar hero," Music Radar listing him as a fan voted top 10 rock guitarist of the year and the Western Canadian Music Awards who nominated him for Breakout Artist of the Year."
Coming back home to Winnipeg, he began sifting through the new songs he'd written between tour dates. Many of them had already been tested on the road, their arrangements whittled into shape by a group of road warriors at the top of their game. Practically all of them were about the process of evolution — of making progress in life, love, and all points in between. Those themes were reflected in the music itself, which presented a crisper, clearer picture of Posen as a songwriter.
DOWNTOWN EP TRACKLIST
01 Be Enough
02 Say It Again
03 Always Saw Coming
04 Downtown
05 Betters On The Way
TOUR DATES
May 20 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
July 3 - Montreal, QC - MTELUS
Sep 27 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast
Sep 28 - Ashington, UK - White House Unique Social Club
Sep 29 - Derby, UK - Flower Pot
Sep 30 - London, UK - O2 Academy Islington
Oct 1 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute
Oct 3 - Bristol, UK - Thekla
Oct 4 - Guildford, UK - Boileroom
Oct 5 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Oct 6 - Eindhoven, NL - Effenaar
Oct 7 - Rotterdam, NL - Rotown Rotterdam
Oct 8 - Utrecht, NL - Tivoli Vredenburg
Oct 9 - Da Groningen, NL - De Oosterpoort
Oct 11 - Köln, DE - Jaki
Oct 12 - Copenhagen, DK - Amager Bio
Oct 13 - Odense, DK - Dexter
Oct 14 - Hamburg, DE - NoCHTWACHE
Oct 15 - Berline, DE - Privatclub
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