OH SUSANNA REVEALS NEW ALBUM

A GIRL IN TEEN CITY, DUE OUT MAY 26 VIA STELLA RECORDS

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From kicking down gravel strewn alleys to evenings tinged with salt air, Oh Susanna’s new album A Girl In Teen City, traverses to the most personal place yet: a conjured, vivid past. Searching for identity is the hallmark of youth, and Vancouver in the 1980s was a place on the verge of knowing.

Due out May 26, on A Girl In Teen City, Oh Susanna (aka, Suzie Ungerleider) discovers what it means to be undone by love, the exuberant freedom under the cover of night, and music bursting with riotous rebellion. “Trying to find out who she is while trying to be something she isn’t,” says Ungerleider. “Falling in love, getting drunk, having her heart broken, hanging out with friends in bedrooms, basements and parking lots, sneaking into shows in burnt out warehouses, watching the waves, walking home over bridges and railroad tracks in all that endless rain.” Like a coming of age novel, A Girl In Teen City, is both piercingly specific and exhilaratingly familiar. No matter where you grew up, or where you live, the songs will bring you home.

Today, Oh Susanna shares the first single “Tickets On The Weekend” which “tells the true story of us West Side brats gearing up to see our favourite band, DOA, at the New York Theatre over on the East Side of Vancouver,” says Ungerleider. “Our plans are foiled by some undercover cops busting us for buying liquor. They call our parents and they pick us up and all our bravado is deflated. I wanted to capture our excitement of being immersed in the punk scene but also reveal the delightful drama of us soft middle class kids pretending to be tough and cool. The clincher is that I convinced my Dad to buy me a ticket to the DOA show the following night so my eight bucks wouldn’t be wasted. Talk about brat!"

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A Girl In Teen City reunites Ungerleider with producer Jim Bryson. The pair collaborated on her previous release Namedropper, an album featuring the songs of Canada’s top songwriters written specifically for Oh Susanna to interpret. This time, with the urging by her friend and co-conspirator, Bryson, she embarked on a time machine to visit her teenage self in a sleepy port town that she thought no one had ever heard of.  

From cheeky rock pop to quietly beautiful love songs, A Girl In Teen City reflects Oh Susanna’s songwriting breadth. Her brilliant vocals float through the sensuous instrumentation to create a cinematic soundscape. The album finds Ungerleider working with longtime friends and musicians Eli Abrams on bass, Cam Giroux on drums, Gord Tough on guitar, and Jim Bryson on guitar and keyboards. Guest harmony vocalists include Holly McNarland, Gabrielle Giguere, Ungerleider’s sister Jessie and niece Sofia. Drummer Paul Brennan makes an appearance on the shiny scrappy pop song “My Boyfriend”, a song about being a girl on the sidelines watching a failed high school band rehearsal – a band where Paul himself was a member.

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“This record, Suzie’s most vulnerable, captures that time when you have so much emotion and no where to put it,” relates Bryson. “It’s like leaving a movie, awash in feelings and with a new understanding so that your world almost made sense. But if you walked through your door at home it would all go away…so you sit outside just for a little while. It transports me.”

The JUNO Award nominated and Genie Award winning Canadian songstress began performing as Oh Susanna in the mid-1990s, crafting a persona that matched the timeless qualities of her music, sounds that drew from the deep well of early 20th Century folk, country and blues, yet rooted in her finely-honed storytelling skills.

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A GIRL IN TEEN CITY TRACKLIST
01 Flashlights
02 Wolf Boy
03 Lucky Star
04 My Boyfriend
05 The Darkroom At The School
06 Getting Ready
07 Tickets On The Weekend
08 Walked All The Way Home
09 Waiting For The Blossoms
10 Thunderbird
11 Puget Sound
12 My Old Vancouver

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GREG MACPHERSON'S FIGURE WALKING ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES, SHARES NEW TRACK

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FIGURE WALKING, THE NEW BAND FROM POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATED SONGWRITER GREG MACPHERSON, DEBUT LP THE BIG OTHER DUE OUT APRIL 28 VIA DISINTEGRATION RECORDS

SPRING TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 28. MORE DATES TBA

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Built on Greg MacPherson’s powerful songwriting, and the relentless backbone of Rob Gardiner’s drumming, Figure Walking, the two-piece based in Winnipeg, infamous as Canada's coldest, most racist city, have taken social criticism and justice to heart with their new record The Big Other, creating a record that is meaningful, unconventional, and exciting.   

Today, just a few days into a new season, Figure Walking have announced their upcoming tour dates and are sharing “Spring Thaw”, a Winnipeg love song. “Winter in Winnipeg is a deep freeze that starts in late October,” says MacPherson. “There's an annual tipping point between frustration and madness that falls for some around Valentine's Day and others when the clocks spring forward. The longer the temperature stays below zero, the more we slide: binge drinking, tanning beds, violent crime, death metal, etc. Winnipeggers with money fly somewhere warm for a while but the rest of us stay inside pacing, shouting, and climbing walls. Two consecutive days above zero in March though and people spill out onto the sidewalks staring directly into the sun... no time for spring, just a full commitment to the hottest day of the year four months before it arrives. Fires are set, a full moon every night for a week, cutoff jeans, mesh shoes, empty bottles in every filthy snowbank. This year, 2017, those two consecutive days are happening right now; people are yelling new words at each other and as I type this, old cars are doing brake-stands in the road-sand and trash. ‘Spring Thaw’ is about the brain fever that is spring in Winnipeg, the tidal pull of desire and desperation for change that makes people cheat on their best friend, move to another city, quit their safe job. It's also a testament to the fact that our frozen rivers are a temporary mask for Manitoba's glacially slow pace of change, particularly for those whose ancestors are buried along the banks of the Red and whose loved ones have been disappeared into its muddy waters.”

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Due out April 28 via Disintegration Records, The Big Other accomplishes the rare feat of presenting big ideas on a foundation of dance beats, electric guitar, and storytelling. The jagged, arthouse post-punk of “Submarines” and “Spring Thaw” demand movement. “Blue World”, with its gauzy swells of aquatic guitar, thumping bass lines, and vivid soundscapes, is a hopeful anthem to reconciliation and possibility. “Singapore”, puts the average hot-blooded North American on a plain dropping into the Pacific, where lust and the no longer exotic combine in the celebrity image of Janet Jackson and a renewed 30 something romance.

If there’s a mission statement drilled into The Big Other, it comes at the surprise ending of “Funeral”, a swirling barrage of cheerleading gang vocals that command, “let’s just try to celebrate, dance until this all makes sense.”

In MacPherson and Gardiner’s own words, “Figure Walking is our attempt as artists to focus on who we are in the present and to take ownership of what we’re bringing into the world, with an eye on a better future.”

MacPherson is a G7 Welcoming Committee Records alumni whose music was never strictly ideological or easily categorized. His past two solo albums, Mr. Invitation and Fireball, have both been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize.

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FIGURE WALKING TOUR DATES
Apr 28 - Guelph @ Van Gogh's Ear
Apr 29 - Kingston @ the Mansion House
Apr 30 - Toronto @ Trazac (5pm show)
May 2 - Hamilton @ Casbah (early show)
May 4 - Quebec City @ Alejandro's
May 5 - Trois-Rivieres @ Microbrasserie Le Temps d'une Pinte
May 6 - Montreal @Bistro de Paris
May 7 - Windsor @ Phog Lounge

*MORE DATES TBA*

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THE BIG OTHER TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Sounds
2. Submarine
3. The Country
4. Summer Haze
5. Blue World

SIDE B
1. Victorious
2. Singapore
3.  Spring Thaw
4.  Funeral
5.  Call Me Up

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LYDIA AINSWORTH STREAMS UPCOMING ALBUM AHEAD OF RELEASE DATE

STREAM DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW HERE VIA CBC MUSIC

HEADLINING TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 19

DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW OUT MARCH 31 VIA ARBUTUS RECORDS

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“...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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Available to stream today courtesy of CBC Music, 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.

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Due out March 31 via Arbutus Records, Ainsworth will celebrate the release of the record with her first-ever headlining tour throughout North America. Full tour dates can be found below.

Darling Of The Afterglow mixes 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.

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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
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
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