“The dreamy visual approach works especially well towards the end, when a jagged guitar freakout takes over the mellow track.” – Exclaim!
#8 Most Popular Artist Oct 19 – HYPE MACHINE
“…carefully arranged, moving and melancholic pop with cinematic elements that’s just simply beautiful.” – THE GUARDIAN (Music Across The Map – via Ja Ja Ja)
“No record in recent memory has given me the chills as consistently as Harbours” – TORONTO STAR
“…eerie, evocative music to transport you to faraway places” – 4/5 MONTREAL GAZETTE
“…the record sounds less like an ideal couple’s vacation than it does the weight of being apart” – THE FADER
“It’s this ability to keep a listener intrigued for such a prolonged period of time, whether it’s a five-minute production or an entire album, which reveals the talent behind Thus:Owls” – EXCLAIM!
“Thus:Owls – unreserved recommendation…” LA PRESSE
“Each stylistic influence Thus:Owls draws from works in their favor, as Harbours succeeds in establishing a sound all their own” – 3.8/5 NIGHTLIFE
Thus:Owls – Harbours
Label: Avalanche
Release date: 2 Oct 2012
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TRACKLIST
1. Island
2. Museum
3. I Weed The Garden
4. White Night
5. When They Fight
6. It’s Gone Now
7. Farmers In Japan
8. The Tree
9. Roots
ABOUT
Thus:Owls is now blessing us with their beautifully cinematic sophomore album ‘Harbours’, the follow-up to 2009′s debut ‘Cardiac Malformations’ which opened up the world to the Swedish Grammy-nominated “haunting voice of Erika Angell” (Billboard) and the “multifaceted” (Guitar Player) guitarist Simon Angell. Though the husband and wife are the main creative force behind this Canadian/Swedish liaison, Thus:Owls incorporates the influences of several other musicians in their productions and live performances.
THUS:OWLS TOUR FALL 2012
Sep 20 Salle de spectacle régionales Desjardins – New Richmond CAN * TICKETS
Sep 21 Salle Desjardins-Telus – Rimouski CAN * TICKETS
Sep 22 Théâtre de Baie-Comeau – Baie-Comeau CAN * TICKETS
Sep 23 Salle Jean-Marc Dion – Sept-Îles CAN * TICKETS
Sep 26 Salle Léo-Paul Therrien – Drummondville CAN * TICKETS
Sep 27 Théâtre Granada – Sherbrooke CAN * TICKETS
Sep 28 Musée Canadien des Civilisations – Gatineau/Ottawa CAN * TICKETS
Sep 29 Musée Canadien des Civilisations – Gatineau/Ottawa CAN * TICKETS
Oct 02 Le Cercle – Quebec City, CAN TICKETS **
Oct 03 Le Lion d’Or – Montréal CAN *** TICKETS
Oct 04 Vieux St-Pierre – Victoriaville, CAN TICKETS
Oct 18 Le Zaricot – Ste-Hyacinthe, CAN TICKETS
Oct 19 Moulin Neuf – Terrebonne CAN TICKETS
* w/ Patrick Watson
** Album Launch Show Québec City
*** Album Launch Show Montréal w/ The Sin & The Swoon
VIDEO
Thus:Owls – White Night – Premiered by THE FADER Aug 13
PREVIOUS PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
“…exquisitely haunting vocals from singer Erika Angell” – BILLBOARD
“Cardiac Malformations is a record out there on its own. It belies categorization or comparison.” – Recommended Album THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“[Simon] Angell brings his multifaceted approach to Thus:Owls…” – GUITAR PLAYER
“There’s an other-worldly sound to Thus:Owls…” – THE ARGUS
“chansons vénéneuses, atmosphériques, alambiquées…” Les Top Album 2009 Des Redacteurs – LES INROCKS
HIGH RES PRESS ASSETS
Press Picture 1 – Photo: Tim Georgeson | WEB
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High Res Album Cover ‘Harbours’
Artwork Landscape Thus:Owls – Sara Arnald
Onesheet Thus:Owls – Harbours
ABOUT
The couple, who met in 2007 on the stage of the famed Paradiso in Amsterdam, have during the last four years lived on the road and in studios throughout Europe and North America – not only touring as Thus:Owls together with bands such as Karkwa, Plants & Animals and Little Dragon – but also in other bands (Simon Angell is the guitarist in Patrick Watson Band; Erika Angell singing with Josef & Erika, The Moth, Loney Dear and others).
At Christmas time 2010, the band packed up their belongings and headed south towards France and a little village on the banks of La Seine, just east of Paris. In a castle that houses studio La Frette – hidden, like a well kept secret behind high stone walls – they settled in to work on their second album ‘Harbours’, craft-fully puzzled together with additional recordings in Stockholm and Montréal.
Erika – often compared in media to Scandinavian legendary voices such as Björk and Karin Dreijer – hails from the small Orust Island on the rugged west coast of Sweden. Simon is born and raised in Montréal, Quebec where the Stockholm-founded Thus:Owls decided in early 2012 to settle in on a more permanent basis.
Erika & Simon’s years of life on the road as musicians and their remote origins have kept them often separated, which can be sensed on ‘Harbours’ with its undertone of longing and despair. Harbours contains nine compositions, or rather stories, about everything from love to culture differences, to the statues of Egypt and Japanese subway suicides. All pieced together, the album blends to two individual’s experiences of world culture, human interactions and relationships – as Erika explains; “every human a new harbour”. The compositions develop in surprising directions and are tastefully framed by intriguing arrangements.
In addition to Erika & Simon no less than ten musicians collaborated on the production of ‘Harbours’ ranging from percussion, trombones, saxophones, choir and strings – giving the album a grand atmosphere capturing every aspect of their sea-crossing life journey. The core musicians besides Simon & Erika have been bassist Martin Höper (Koop, Rigmor Gustafsson, Last Days Of April), drummer Ola Hultgren (Ane Brun, Loney Dear, Koop), pianist Cecilia Persson (Paavo, Lina Nyberg), plus the hallmark of sound engineer Mathieu Parisien (Patrick Watson, Karkwa).
For the fall tour 2012, the main live musicians with Thus:Owls will be the above-mentioned Martin Höper, together with keyboardist Parker Shper (Leif Vollebekk, Trey Anastasio) and drummer Stef Schneider (The Luyas, Belle Orchestra).
CONTACT
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