Barzin Debuts New Song “Fake It ‘Til You Make It” Via USA Today
New Album To Live Alone In That Long Summer Out February 25th on Monotreme Records
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Toronto based artist Barzin and Monotreme Records are excited to unveil the latest single from the forthcoming album To Live Alone In That Long Summer. Barzin’s fourth full-length album, To Live Alone… will be released on February 25th. Today the enthralling single “Fake It ’til You Make It” debuts via USA Today, who praised the song’s “pensive strings and echoing piano chords,” and its ability to capture “the tentative fear of someone who sees better version of the person they’d like to be in everyone around them.”
Stream “Fake It “til You Make It” on USA Today (courtesy Soundcloud)
Download “All The While” via RollingStone.com (courtesy Soundcloud)
Stream/Download “In The Morning” via The Line of Best Fit‘s “Oh Canada” Mixtape
Barzin’s past work has won acclaim from NPR Music’s “Song of The Day,” Salon.com, Stereogum, Uncut, and La Blogotheque ~ among others. To Live AloneIn That Long Summer follows his well-received 2009 album Notes To An Absent Lover, praised by Mojo Magazine as “Americana Album of The Month” and described by Exclaim! as “…emotionally ragged but musically flawless.“
In the not insignificant stretch of time since his last release, Barzin has pursued projects outside his own songwriting, including assisting in producing his compatriots Memoryhouse’s recent album, The Slideshow Effect (Subpop Records). He has also written a book of poems entitled Something I Have Not Done Is Following Me.
The new album features some of Canada’s finest musicians. Nick Zubeck lends a hand as a producer. Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), Daniela Gesendheit (Snowblink) and Tamara Lindeman (Weather Station) provide backing vocals on several tracks. Sandro Perri comes in as a music consultant and offers advice on the arrangement of the songs. Karen Graves (Hayden) returns with understated string arrangements and the help received from an additional cast of stellar musicians results in Barzin’s strongest record to date. “I feel I’ve been trying to create this album since I began making records,” says Barzin.