SPILL NEW MUSIC: THOMAS DUXBURY AND NEW MOTHER NATURE – “NIGHT IS YOUNG”

THOMAS DUXBURY AND NEW MOTHER NATURE – “NIGHT IS YOUNG”

BONNIE DOON RECORDS

Hamilton, ON’s Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature unveil “Night is Young”, a sprawling and deeply personal garage rock album released alongside its optimistic title track. Rooted in blues rock grit and indie rock exploration, the record captures the disorienting, often contradictory experience of navigating change, distance, and identity while learning to embrace both the chaos and beauty of the journey.

Written across years of transition (from busking through Spain to living abroad in Scotland), “Night is Young” documents a period of movement and emotional upheaval. “This album is about being on a journey,” Duxbury explains. “A lot of it comes from that feeling of being in the passenger seat of your own life sometimes. It’s that weird space where everything is kind of moving whether you’re ready for it or not.”

The album unfolds as a loose narrative arc, moving from early excitement and possibility into isolation, uncertainty, and eventual grounding. Themes of loneliness, mental health, and disconnection run throughout, but so does a persistent drive toward exploration and self-discovery. Rather than resolving neatly, Night is Young leans into contradiction as a reflection of real life in motion.

At the centre of the release is its title track, a song that encapsulates the album’s emotional core. Originally written in 2018 following a formative trip to Spain, “Night is Young” began as an upbeat, carefree anthem before evolving into something more complex. Years later, while living abroad, Duxbury revisited the track after receiving a distressing call from home; a moment that reshaped the song’s meaning entirely.

That duality defines the track. Bright, beachy garage rock textures and buoyant, singalong-ready energy collide with heavier lyrical undercurrents, creating a tension that feels both immediate and honest. The result is a song that holds two truths at once: carefree and burdened, open and uncertain.

Musically, both “Night is Young” and its title track embrace a raw, exploratory approach. Recorded over several years with a rotating cast of collaborators, the LP blends analog warmth with digital experimentation, incorporating recordings from multiple spaces and moments in time. From cassette-tracked textures to drums recorded in the attic of a Scottish pub, the album reflects a patchwork of lived experience.

Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature is a blues-inspired garage rock project rooted in Hamilton, Ontario. What began as Duxbury recording his debut album Back 40 Homegrown in his basement during the pandemic has evolved into a collaborative collective featuring rotating members Bruce Cole, Sadie Kostash, Quentin Simms, Bailey Osborne, Zach Ridehalgh, Jesse Stratton, Peter Wronski, and Euan Macdonald.

The project blends groovy ballads with bone-rattling riffs, drawing inspiration from artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Black Keys, Sloan, Supertramp, The White Stripes, The Doors, and Gary Clark Jr. Duxbury has performed across Canada and the UK, sharing stages with The Commoners, Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, and The Dirty Nil.

With “Night is Young”, Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature deliver a project that embraces both movement and stillness, chaos and clarity. It’s a record about being in between and choosing to keep going anyway.

ARTIST QUOTE

“There’s a lot of different parts of my life in this record,” Duxbury says. “It really felt like bringing everything together and trying to make sense of it.”

Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature
Night Is Young
(Bonnie Doon Records)
Release Date: May 19, 2026

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