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Sold Out - James Vincent McMorrow, Allan Rayman
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James Vincent McMorrow - "Glacier"
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7:00pm
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ARTIST INFO
James Vincent McMorrow - "Glacier"
http://bit.ly/JVMGlacier
2016 has already proven to be quite the year for Irish troubadour James Vincent McMorrow. He recently surpassed 100+ million streams, had the opportunity to lend his gorgeous vocals to Kygo’s popular single “I’m in Love”, and was featured in the quickly-viral trailer for the latest season of Game of Thrones.
Today, McMorrow is thrilled to announce that his latest album We Move will be released on September 2 via Dine Alone Records in Canada. The first single “Rising Water”, which premiered yesterday via Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show, is now available to listen to and share HERE. In support of his latest effort, McMorrow will be returning to Canada for a slew of dates in November kicking off in Montreal on November 12. Fans who pre-order We Move from the Dine Alone webstore between July 5 and until 10 pm EST on July 7, will receive exclusive access to pre-order tickets for the Canadian dates. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on July 8. For all confirmed tour dates, see below. The album is also available to pre-order at https://jamesvmcmorrow.lnk.to/wemove.
Fans who pre-order the record digitally will receive “Rising Water” as an instant download. We Move follows 2010’s Early In The Morning and acclaimed follow-up Post Tropical, which was nominated for Ireland’s Choice Music Prize and lead to numerous sold-out shows worldwide. Written in constant transition – and recorded between Toronto, Dublin and London – We Move is James Vincent McMorrow’s most expansive, generous and ambitious record to date. There is something more stripped-back – vulnerable, even – surfacing for the first time. Far from the dense, protective imagery at the heart of Post Tropical, We Move is ultimately a record open in its portrait of anxiety and social unease. For McMorrow, it’s about celebrating mental fragility and how we move forward in life, rather than “people listening to my songs and believing that I’m out in the forest all day long, thinking about trees. Because I’m actually at home, trying to convince myself to go out and get milk.”
The first steps to We Move took place in 2014, when James – having been asked to write for different artists’ projects – started sketching out ideas for others on tour (and subsequently stopped over-analysing his own work). Intent on doing the opposite of everything he’d done thus far, McMorrow then came off the road, but kept exploring: first through Barcelona, then Canada, and stopping in Los Angeles for six particularly fish-out-of-water months, where the songs for the album crystallised. He returned to Dublin determined not to just produce another album himself, but to work with people who could articulate the unique world he heard in his head. “I grew up wanting to write songs like Neil Young but produce them like The Neptunes”. And so James reached out to a few key co-producers he’d met whilst travelling, who formed the backbone of We Move: namely, Nineteen85 (Drake, DVSN), Two Inch Punch (Sam Smith, Years & Years), and Frank Dukes (Kanye West, Rihanna). Mixing took place largely in Miami with one of McMorrow’s all-time heroes, Jimmy Douglass - known for his work from Donny Hathaway through to Timbaland – who finessed the record’s warm, vintage yet forward-thinking feel.
The result is an album about movement – geographically, mentally, emotionally – which remains focused on finding
your place in that future. First track “Rising Water” is starkly-produced and skyscraper-sized in its sense of catharsis (“I never once was sad for what I’ve done”): “Evil”, meanwhile, questions whether you might in fact be a bad person, because you don’t see life the way other people do conveying a celebratory tone rather than ominous, however). Heavier still is “I Lie Awake Every Night”, which sees James address for the first time the eating disorder he has battled since he was a child (“it’s about lying in hospital when I was a kid, thinking I shouldn’t be there, and trying to reconcile those two things”). We Move reacts against McMorrow’s instincts to obscure ideas such as this, and ultimately embraces a shared, collective awkwardness, and the idea that maybe we’re all putting on a brave beginning with “Rising Water”, We Move continues a remarkable journey for the Dublin-born singer and songwriter, whose early work offered little clue as to the sounds and situations that would follow. It’s a remarkably assured collection, informed by this idea that you might not have to listen to others when they tell you how they think life is supposed to go; and that as you grow up, you lose things along the way. Rather, We Move suggests it’s possible to what you want to keep, and lose what you want to lose.
In-Person Event
Fri. November 25th 2016 + Add to Calendar
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
