Land of Talk – This Time (Radio Edit)

Labels: Saddle Creek
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 3:53
Formats: Triple A, Specialty, AAA, Non-Commercial, NPR
Available Date & Time: March 27, 2017 11:30 AM ET
Impact Date: April 10, 2017
Country: USA

New Single "This Time" Features Sharon Van Etten on Vocals

Life After Youth Releases May 19 via Saddle Creek Records

North American Tour Begins June 13 – Dates Below

Album Produced and Mixed by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth) and Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes) + features Sharon Van Etten, Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Sal Maida (Roxy Music/Sparks), and The Besnard Lakes.

Early praise for Life After Youth:

"Led by a wonderfully warbly guitar, this is a great example of the kind of expansive, warm, melodic rock singer/songwriter Elizabeth Powell makes, and should make you even more excited to hear the rest. If the harmonies in the chorus stop you in your tracks …"
– Brooklyn Vegan (on "This Time")

"… [an] intensifying sequence that shimmers and sighs with nervous tension and openhearted beauty" – Stereogum (on "This Time")

" … there’s a palpable optimism all over this thing. It’s the sound of a talented songwriter picking up the pieces and using them to make something new and exciting."
– WXPN The Key (on "This Time")

" … a mixture of dreamy guitar riffs and nostalgia-filled lyrics that echo the band’s classic sound"
– Modern Vinyl (on "This Time")

"…a beautiful ode to self-determination…" – NPR Music (on "Inner Lover")

Land of Talk – the Montreal-based band led by Elizabeth Powell – has announced its first new album in seven years, Life After Youth, set for release May 19th on Saddle Creek. Produced and mixed by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth) and Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes), and featuring Sharon Van Etten, Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Sal Maida (Roxy Music/Sparks), and The Besnard Lakes, the album is a collection of songs that sees Powell in the finest voice of her career, and reuniting with original Land of Talk drummer Bucky Wheaton.

Since forming Land of Talk in 2006, the one certainty in Powell’s life has been uncertainty, as her band has gone from being one of Montreal’s most brash, buzzy indie rock acts to one of its most elusive and enigmatic. After recording Land of Talk’s debut EP, Applause Cheer Boo Hiss, she lost her drummer. After releasing Land of Talk’s first full-length record produced by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Some Are Lakes (2008), she lost her voice. And after the release of the "breakthrough" (SPIN) Cloak and Cipher LP (2010), Powell lost her will.

Powell knew she needed a break from the album/tour/album/tour cycle after Cloak and Cipher’s release — she just didn’t plan on it becoming a full-blown hiatus. In 2011, she left Montreal behind and retreated to her grandparents’ cottage near Lake Couchiching, ON to write only to see all her work lost when her laptop irreparably crashed, taking all her demos down with it. The combination of post-tour fatigue and the demoralizing loss of her new material brought her to a dead stop.

It wasn’t until years later that Powell reunited with Wheaton, who emailed her out of the blue after falling out of contact for several years, and together began woodshedding new songs in Toronto at Broken Social Scene/Do Make Say Think bassist Charles Spearin’s home jam space, and then booking time at Montreal’s Breakglass Studios with Lacek, who recorded the first Land of Talk EP (and, for this new record, shared bass duties with wife/bandmate Olga "Oggie" Goreas).

The story of Life After Youth resembles one of those Raiders of the Lost Ark maps with the red routing lines bouncing back and forth into a blur—"which is kind of like what my brain is like," Powell says with a laugh. But from that mental and geographic scramble, a work of great focus and clarity has emerged. To paraphrase the late David Bowie, it’s been seven years, and Powell’s brain hurt a lot. But she stands today as the patient-zero case study for Life After Youth’s therapeutic powers.

Land of Talk on Tour:

6/13 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
6/14 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
6/16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
6/18 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
6/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
6/22 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo’s
6/23 – Edmonton, AB @ The Needle Vinyl Tavern
6/24 – Calgary, AB @ Sled Island – King Edward Hotel "King Eddy"
6/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial
6/27 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
6/28 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
6/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
7/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Cemetery

Connect with Land of Talk:

https://saddle-creek.com/pages/land-of-talk

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