SPILL NEWS: ABIGAIL LAPELL SHARES VIDEO FOR “SCARLET FEVER” | ON TOUR NOW

ABIGAIL LAPELL SHARES VIDEO FOR “SCARLET FEVER” | ON TOUR NOW

OUTSIDE MUSIC

As Abigail Lapell’s tour dates continue this week with stops in Alberta and BC, the acclaimed songwriter is sharing the new animated video for “Scarlet Fever”, a track off her latest album, Stolen Time, out now via Outside Music. “The idea for this video was a miniature fever dream exploring quarantine, isolation and folkloric rituals of healing and recovery,” says Lapell. “It’s the third in a three-part series of music videos made in collaboration with Montreal puppet theatre Panadream over the past five years and three albums. I started writing this song in the early days of COVID, which felt like such a fragile, uncertain time. The lyrics are loosely inspired by an elderly relative’s stories of being quarantined with scarlet fever in the 1920s, which made a big impression on me as a child. Some of that imagery shows up in the video – like the red sign posted on the door of a quarantine house – along with handmade marionettes, shadow puppets, animation and elaborate set pieces. We wanted to create a tiny, surreal world with its own shifting and uncertain logic.”

More About Abigail Lapell

Over the past decade and three spellbinding albums, Lapell has garnered two Canadian Folk Music Awards (English Songwriter of the Year in 2020 and Contemporary Album of the Year in 2017), hit number one on Canadian folk radio, and accrued a staggering 13 million+ Spotify streams while touring widely across Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

Her latest LP, Stolen Time, out now via Outside Music, strikes a fine balance between her hushed acoustic debut, Great Survivor, and her two rockier, Chris Stringer produced records, Hide Nor Hair and Getaway. Stolen Time brings a live-off-the-floor 70s folk-rock vibe with more structural experimentation to the table on songs that feel expansive in their scope; unhurried, psychedelic, and other-worldly.

SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ABIGAIL LAPELL – STOLEN TIME

Tour Dates

July 28 – Helena, MT – House Concert
July 31 – White Sulphur Springs, MT – Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Aug 3 – Calgary, AB – Baya Rica
Aug 5 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Fest
Aug 6 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Fest
Aug 7 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Fest
Aug 13 – Dunster, BC – Robson Valley Music Festival
Aug 14 – Dunster, BC – Robson Valley Music Festival
August 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Folk Festival
August 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Folk Festival

For a full list of dates and ticket information, please visit abigaillapell.com/shows

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Photo Credit: Jen Squires