Brendan Canning Appears on NPR’s World Café and Exclusively Premieres Video for “Bullied Days” Via Chart Attack
Photo by Jules Schill
Artist Also Announces New Tour Dates
Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning will be playing select U.S. shows next month in support of his stunning second solo LP, You Gots 2 Chill, out now via SQE. For a complete list of remaining tour stops, please see the end of this article…but in the meantime…
PRESS HERE to listen to Brendan on NPR’s World Café, and PRESS HERE to watch the in-studio performance of “Lighthouse Returns.”
PRESS HERE to watch Brendan, Holly Miranda and Brendan’s live band cover of Drake’s “Hold On We’re Going Home.”
PRESS HERE to watch the moving music video for “Bullied Days.”
“Canning draws a rough-hewn, earthen beauty from the strings on tracks like the misty “Never Go to the Races” and the wistful “Last Song for the Summer Hideaway”. There’s a refreshing sense of humor present in the album’s song titles and sequencing…Taken together, this sense of humor and the album’s unadorned songwriting combine to give You Gots 2 Chill, and Canning, a charmingly unpretentious vibe.” ~ PITCHFORK
“Canning has delivered here his most personally stylized record to date, offering the psychedelic guitar washes and ambient effects understandably overshadowed on pop-tending Broken Social Scene recordings.” ~ FILTER
“…You Gots 2 Chill continues to live up to its relaxation-centric title…Keeping with the good vibes of ‘Plugged In’, ‘Bullied’ is a bare-bones affair of textured synth and lush slide guitar that practically carries you into the sky and lovingly places you on the puffiest of clouds.” ~ CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
“It’s all lovely… but the best moments here – the jazzy, low-key funk of “However Long,” the backward-masked electronic of “New Zealand Tap Dancing Finals,” the slow-spiraling psychadelia of “Last Song for the Summer Hideaway” – burst emphatically through the fog.” ~ RELIX
Brendan Canning recently met up with NPR’s World Café in Toronto, and the session debuts today, featuring gorgeous full-band renditions of You Gots 2 Chill tracks such as “Plugged In,” “Bullied Days,” and “Never Go To The Races.” In addition to the session, Brendan takes World Café’s David Dye on a tour of his favorite spots in Toronto in a “Sense of Place” interview. PRESS HERE to check your local listings.
Today Brendan also premieres the new music video for “Bullied Days”, the second single off of his sophomore solo LP You Gots 2 Chill. The video for the track, which features vocals by Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink, finds a distressed man on a bridge whose day is suddenly turned around when a little girl unexpectedly befriends him. PRESS HERE to watch the moving video for “Bullied Days”, directed by Dick Tears and Coconutfrills, via CHART ATTACK now.
Brendan has also announced rescheduled tour dates in the NYC, Boston, Philly and DC areas. See below for tour dates near you.
Remaining U.S. Tour Dates
1/20/14 Allston, MA @ Great Scott
1/22/14 Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
1/23/14 Arlington, VA @ IOTA
1/24/14 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
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