ROYAL CANOE REVEALS NEW SONG “LOVE YOU LIKE THAT” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM
SOMETHING GOT LOST BETWEEN HERE AND THE ORBIT OUT SEPTEMBER 16 VIA NEVADO MUSIC + NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 8
Yesterday Royal Canoe premiered the “rhythmic, percussive, synth-heavy goodness of “Love You Like That” via Baeble Music from its upcoming release Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit, due out September 16 via Nevado Records. Prior to that the band premiered the track”Living A Lie” which came hot on the heels of the video for the album’s first single, “Somersault”.
Never ones to stray from the road for too long the Winnipeg sextet wrapped up a string of summer tour dates with Plants & Animals and are now ready to jump back in the van to promote the highly anticipated release of Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit. A whole autumn full of tour dates that takes Royal Canoe to every corner of North America begins September 8. All performance dates can be found below.
After two years of writing and recording between tours, Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit surfaced with a unique and intensified voice. It was co-produced and mixed by Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, Deerhunter), who concentrated their sound-crafting attention on two fundamental elements: drums and vocals. Royal Canoe has always had an intensively rhythmic heart and that is more the case than ever. Their lyrics grow organically out of an addictive percussive flow and the unique topography of each track. Reinforcing their vocal and percussive core allowed them to be more adventurous with experimentation; more determined in their ongoing pursuit of the elusive musicality that can be found in collisions between digital and analogue worlds. In addition to their their usual buffet of synthesizers, effects pedals and homemade samples, late nights lead to to rabbit-holes of attaching contact mics to water bottles to play them like percussion instruments and convoluting synths through beluga whale field recordings.
In addition to a renewed sonic focus, Something Got Lost… brings an emotional clarity. But it’s a particular kind of clarity: one you experience when what’s most clear is that you’re really unsure about what’s happening with your life or, unsure about what happened to the life you once took for granted, while you were off experiencing stuff, being busy, accomplishing things. Life, and especially the life of musicians, tends to be shaped by an ebb and flow of leaving and returning, cycling between an extroverted, transient mode of being and one of introversion and staying put. Within the broader cycles, even our most important relationships can shift, morph and drift, no matter how much we try to hold them steady.
Almost three years have passed since the release of Royal Canoe’s sophomore album Today We’re Believers. Those years were full. The band played 200 shows, which included tours with the likes of Alt J and Bombay Bicycle Club, and stops at major festivals like Bonaroo, Iceland Airwaves, and Osheaga. The hard work paid off; Today We’re Believers received critical acclaim, was nominated for Alternative Album of the Yearat the JUNOs, and won Best Independent Album at Western Canadian Music Awards.
Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit Tracklist
1. Somersault
2. Walk out on the Water
3. Living a Lie
4. Checkmate
5. Love You Like That
6. I Am Collapsing So Slowly
7. Holidays
8. Out of the Beehive
9. Bicycle
10. How Long Is Your Life?
11. BB Gun
Pre-Order Via Nevado Records HERE
Tour Dates
09.08 – Guelph, ON @ Brass Taps Pub
09.09 – Waterloo, ON @ Maxwell’s
09.10 – Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Supercrawl
09.15 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
09.17 – Lethbridge, AB @ Love & Records Festival
09.18 – Bozeman, MT @ The Filling Station
09.19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
09.23 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hi Hat
09.24 – Davis, CA @ Sophia’s Thai Kitchen
09.25 – San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
09.28 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
09.29 – Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
09.30 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial
10.01 – Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar
10.03 – Rossland, BC @ The Flying Steamshovel
10.05 – Calgary, AB @ Marquee Beer Market & Stage
10.06 – Red Deer, AB @ Bo’s Bar and Grill
10.07 – Edmonton, AB @ UP+DT Festival
10.08 – Saskatoon, SK @ The Capitol
10.18 – Kingston, ON @ The Mansion
10.19 – Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti
10.20 – Fredericton, NB @ Capital Complex
10.21 & 10.22 – Halifax, NS @ Halifax Pop Explosion
10.26 – St. Catharines, ON @ L3
10.27 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
10.28 – Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox
10.29 – Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
10.30 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
11.01 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
11.02 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
11.05 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
11.07 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
11.09 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
11.11 – Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
11.12 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
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(Photo Credit: Jaclyn Campanaro / Background Photo Credit: Bill Acheson)
