ROSE COUSINS’ NEW ALBUM, CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1, OUT MARCH 14, 2025
WATCH / SHARE “K’S WALTZ” HERE
BUY / STREAM “K’S WALTZ” HERE
NEW DATES ADDED TO 2025 CANADIAN TOUR COMMENCING APRIL 1
PRE-SAVE CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1 HERE
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Acclaimed multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins’ new album, Conditions of Love - Vol 1, will arrive March 14, 2025.
Today Rose reveals the music video for new single “K’s Waltz”. An ode to her late friend and colleague, Koady Chaisson, Rose marvels at the resilience of the human spirit and the limitless capacity of a giving heart to adapt in the face of hardship. There is grace in the everyday act of survival.
“The loss has been gut-wrenching,” shares Rose. “It’s hard to process and harder to accept that he’s gone. It’s also incredible to feel his presence still having a profound influence on the world he made. In the last month of his life, he was cold dipping both for his own health and to raise money for the Unison Fund, which supports Canadian music industry folks in times of hardship. He was and is a light."
An extremely talented banjo player, step dancer and all-round colourful human, Koady was a founding member of PEI’s The East Pointers (Tim Chaisson & Jake Charon).
WATCH / SHARE “K’S WALTZ” HERE
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MORE ABOUT CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1
On her new album, Rose holds her listeners’ hands as she guides them on a journey through the "conditions of love." Ever the emotional explorer, the Nova-Scotia-based artist seeks truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of humans’ most complicated of emotions: love. The journey results in a striking clarity, and it’s the gift of that clarity that brings on surprising tears.
Rose shares, “Love feels great and makes us ridiculous. It's tiring and intense, joyful and devastating. Falling in love, being in love and staying in love are all such different things. Being human is emotionally complicated enough without attempting to relate to another who is just as complex, and in the most vulnerable of arenas: romance. Love is wondrous and absurd (and very hard). Humour helps.”
WATCH / SHARE “DENOUEMENT” (LIVE PERFORMANCE VISUALIZER) HERE
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Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love - Vol. 1 sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares. She first introduced the upcoming body of work with the gorgeous, piano-driven ballad “Forget Me Not,” followed by the slow-burning, nostalgic “Borrowed Light,” and the uplifting, “I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard),” which Rose has called the cornerstone of the upcoming album.
WATCH / SHARE “BORROWED LIGHT” HERE
BUY / STREAM “BORROWED LIGHT” HERE
Rose Cousins’ songwriting plumbs the depths of the human condition. Her work has garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy Award nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Associated Press, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Batwoman and Heartland.
WATCH / SHARE “I BELIEVE IN LOVE (AND IT’S VERY HARD)” HERE
BUY / STREAM “I BELIEVE IN LOVE (AND IT’S VERY HARD)” HERE
ROSE COUSINS CANADIAN TOUR (MORE DATES TBA)
April 1 - Sherwood Park, AB @ Festival Place Theatre
April 2 - Calgary, AB @ National Music Centre
April 3 - Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement
April 5 - Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
April 7 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
April 8 - Kingston, ON @ The Broom Factory
April 9 - Peterborough, ON @ Market Hall Performing Arts Center
April 11 - Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall
April 12 - Hamilton, ON @ The Westdale
April 13 - Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
April 16 - Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre Of The Arts
April 17 - Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
April 18 - Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre (Moncton)
April 19 - Saint John, NB @ Imperial Theatre
June 13 - St John's, NL @ Majestic Theatre
PRE-SAVE CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1 HERE
CONDITIONS OF LOVE - VOL 1 TRACKLIST
01 To Be Born (overture)
02 Forget Me Not
03 I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard)
04 Denouement
05 That’s How Long (I’ve waited for your love)
06 Needed You
07 Wolf and Man
08 K’s Waltz
09 Borrowed Light
10 How is this (the last time)