ABIGAIL LAPELL REVEALS DELUXE ALBUM, ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE, INCLUDING 8 ADDITIONAL SONGS FROM THE 2025 JUNO AWARD NOMINATED ALBUM ANNIVERSARY - OUT MAY 3, 2025 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC
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“achingly beautiful” SOCAN Magazine
“Anniversary celebrates love in all its forms, taking the listener on a journey from ephemeral moments of elation to the power of eternal love, to the tragedy of heartache and loss.” Stir
“Lapell’s masterful skills on finger-style guitar, harmonica, piano once again return to effortlessly complement her eerily beautiful vocals.” - KUTX (NPR)
“Anniversary” emerges boldly and beautifully as an earnest celebration of commitment”
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"The standout track 'Rattlesnake' begins with a slowly ramping up guitar that is sparse and haunting yet upbeat. Lapell lays down vocals that feel rooted and soulful with an element of blues running through her unique style of folk-noir." - Glide Magazine
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Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with More Songs About Love, the extended companion to her acclaimed 2025 JUNO Award Nominated album Anniversary. An evocative collection of original love songs, Anniversary was produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker and recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets.
Balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, More Songs About Love adds eight new stripped-down tracks to the collection, including delicate acoustic versions of Anniversary’s standout tracks; a captivating French translation of crowd favourite “Rattlesnake”; and Lapell’s unique take on a handful of beloved classics, including her impassioned version of “Feels Like We Always Go Backwards” by Tame Impala. Combining cynical and sentimental elements, the collection ultimately emerges as an earnest celebration of love.
Today, Abigail shares the new acoustic rendition of “Wait Up”. An ode to dysfunctional love, this duet between Abigail and Tony Dekker combines catchy harmonies and dueling acoustic guitars. "I loved recording this acoustic duo version of 'Wait Up' with Tony,” says Abigail. “I feel like it brings out such a different, more intimate side of the song and was super fun to play and sing live together."
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MORE ABOUT ANNIVERSARY
On Anniversary, Abigail Lapell interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together. ‘Anniversary’ literally means ‘returning yearly’, and the album’s 11 songs track the revolving days, seasons, and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love. Across the project, Lapell drew inspiration from a series of personal milestones, including turning 40, along with the fifteenth anniversary of her father’s death – and, more recently, several weddings and births in her family. She offers a 40-something vision of love, haunted by the ghosts of departed loved ones, past relationships or even the spectre of faded youth.
Anniversary was fittingly recorded in a historic 200-year-old church adjoining a cemetery, complimenting the project’s resonant and hauntingly intimate theme. Lapell tapped Tony Dekker to co-produce the album, and the two assembled a stellar cast of musicians to round out Lapell’s vocals, piano, harmonica and fingerstyle electric guitar. The ensemble’s sensitive, orchestral country-jazz arrangements reveal the depth of Lapell’s musical palette – making use of the church’s in-house piano, harpsichord and several antique organs.
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Across the album, Lapell’s deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love’s finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. “I wanted to explore some of the contradictions within the pop culture notion of love,” Lapell says. “These dichotomies of light and dark, love and loss, fleeting and eternal – even in the traditional wedding vows, ‘sickness and health, richer or poorer.’” Ultimately, while deconstructing the myths of romantic love, Anniversary emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment – acknowledging its tragedy and hope, and its power to haunt and console at the same time.
Anniversary comes on the heels of Abigail Lapell’s critically acclaimed 2022 album Stolen Time, and her project Lullabies, released in November of 2023. Over the course of her musical journey, Lapell has garnered three Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 40 million+ streams on Spotify alone. Abigail is the most nominated artist at the 2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards with 4 nominations: Contemporary Album of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year for Anniversary, and Children's Album of the Year and Traditional Singer of the Year - for Lullabies.
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TOUR DATES
03/28/2025 Vancouver British Columbia JUNOFest Anza Club
04/06/2025 Ottawa Ontario CFMAs Canadian Museum of History
05/11/2025 Birmingham United Kingdom Kitchen Garden Cafe
05/12/2025 Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge Junction 2
05/13/2025 Bristol United Kingdom Hen & Chicken
05/14/2025 London United Kingdom Jazz Cafe
05/16/2025 Stockholm, SE Sweden Nalen
05/17/2025 Falkenberg, SE Sweden Tryckhallen
05/18/2025 Malmö Sweden Plan B
05/21/2025 Arnhem Netherlands Bovenzaal
05/22/2025 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
05/23/2025 Venlo Netherlands Joriskerk
05/24/2025 Leuven Belgium Cinema Roxy
05/27/2025 Bremen Germany Radio Bremen concert
05/28/2025 Hamburg, DE Germany Monkeys Music Club
05/30/2025 Berlin Germany Cassiopeia
06/08/2025 Toronto Ontario Hugh's Room
06/11/2025 Portland ME Maine Oxbow
06/12/2025 Saratoga Springs New York Caffe Lena
06/13/2025 Exeter New Hampshire The Word Barn
06/14/2025 Cambridge Massachussetts Club Passim
06/15/2025 New York NY Cafe Wha
ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE TRACKLIST
01 Anniversary Song
02 Footsteps
03 Count On Me
04 Rattlesnake
05 Blue Blaze
06 Someone Like You
07 3AM
08 Flowers In My Hair
09 Blue Electric Skies
10 Wait Up
11 Stars
12 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
13 Anniversary Song (Acoustic)
14 Wait Up (Acoustic)
15 Plaisir d'amour
16 Serpent à sonnette
17 Count On My (Acoustic)
18 The End Of The World
19 Stars (Acoustic)
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