LISTEN TO AND SHARE “INTO THE BLUE” HERE
DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW OUT MARCH 31 VIA ARBUTUS RECORDS
SXSW SHOWCASE THIS WEEK - HEADLINING TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 19
PRE-ORDER DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE
“...This is Ainsworth's creative sweet spot...an eerie, exquisite lullaby that drifts between delicate verses and mighty choruses driven by rich piano chords and electronic drums.” - NPR Music
“Among pop music’s experimental architects, Lydia Ainsworth has a unique knack for making grand sweeping gestures feel human.” - Pitchfork
“Now here’s a winter pop jam.” - New York Magazine’s Vulture
“...easily her biggest and most dynamic release so far.” - FACT Mag
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Toronto-based artist, composer and producer Lydia Ainsworth will release her gorgeous new record later this month, and today she shares the album’s third single “Into The Blue”. The track premiered via Stereogum who called it “an arresting kick against a current that’s dragging Ainsworth down.”
LISTEN AND SHARE “INTO THE BLUE” HERE
Due out March 31 via Arbutus Records, Ainsworth will celebrate the release of the record with her first-ever headlining tour throughout North America. She will also make a stop at SXSW in Austin this week. Full tour dates can be found below.
Darling Of The Afterglow is Lydia Ainsworth’s second record and follow up to the JUNO Award nominated and critically acclaimed Right From Real (2014). The album features a team of local Toronto musicians, woven into Ainsworth’s programming, samples and string arrangements. “I usually have to be out of my element to get that spark of inspiration,” she says of songwriting. The songs on Darling Of The Afterglow began away from home, before being brought to fruition in her hometown.
Mixing yearning pop with other-worldly synthetic sounds, plush classical settings and weird-gothic R&B influences, Lydia Ainsworth’s new album is a richly imagined, richly felt work of future-pop classicism: an album of intimate emotions projected in heightened widescreen. The stunning, 11-track Darling Of The Afterglow showcases a great leap forward from Right From Real’s already prodigious experi-pop riches.
WATCH AND SHARE “THE ROAD” HERE
WATCH AND SHARE “AFTERGLOW” HERE
DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW TRACKLIST
1. The Road
2. What Is It?
3. Ricochet
4. Afterglow
5. Open Doors
6. Spinning
7. Into The Blue
8. Wicked Game
9. I Can Feel It All
10. WLCM
11. Nighttime Watching
TOUR DATES
3/15/17 - SXSW: Arbutus Showcase @ Valhalla, 1:30 AM
3/16/17 - SXSW: Pitchfork Showcase @ French Legation, 4:30 PM
3/17/17 - SXSW: Austin Oasis @ Hole in the Wall, 7:00 PM
4/19/17 - Washington, DC @ DC 9
4/20/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
4/22/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
4/24/17 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott
4/25/17 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PBD
4/26/17 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
4/28/17 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
4/29/17 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
5/2/17 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
5/3/17 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
5/4/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
5/6/17 - San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall
5/8/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
5/30/17 - Brighton @ The Joker
5/31/17 - London @ London Fields Brewery
6/1/17 - Paris @ Escape B
6/2/17 - Antwerp @ Trix Bar
6/3/17 - Rotterdam @ V11
6/5/17 - Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich
6/6/17 - Colgne @ YUCA
6/7/17 - Berlin @ Kantine am Berghain
6/8/17 - Amsterdam @ Sugar Factory
