JANETTE KING WHAT WE LOST On her debut full-length album, What We Lost, Montreal artist Janette King explores the many complexities of loss - from enduring the pain to coping with the change it inevitably brings. Recorded in the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020, What We Lost was born from Janette King’s own experiences grappling with loss in her life, the near loss of a family member, the end of a deep relationship, and ultimately the loss of her sense of self. Through an intricate blend of house, pop, and R&B reminiscent of Kelela and Lauryn Hill, Janette King unfolds the raw emotion behind What We Lost through songs and poetry. Artist: Janette King Album: What We Lost Label: Hot Tramp Records Release Date: June 25, 2021 LP Catalogue #: TRAMP002 LP UPC #: 6-23339-9163-0-1 Tracklist: 1. Airplane 2. You Don't Love Me 3. Mars 4. Unconditional KEY POINTS: 5. Cool Me Down ft. DijahSB * debut full length from Montreal-based producer, vocalist, multi- 6. What We Lost instrumentalist and DJ, Janette King. 7. Right Here * Janette King has toured North America and shared the stage with 8. Change 9. Mirror such visionaries as Jamila Woods, Cupcakke, and Sudan Archives. On 10. Caught in Smoke 化力 her home turf in Montreal, she often pairs with Hua Li and 11. Ooh Yeah Backxwash or Hot Tramp label mates, Alicia Clara and Maryze. 12. Found a Way * Singles “Airplane”, “You Don’t Love Me” & “Cool Me Down” have received acclaim from Complex UK, CLASH Magazine, and ffm.bio/janetteking Consequence of Sound, receiving regular spins across CBC, KCRW & ffm.bio/hottramp The Strombo Show. * "Cool Me Down" is a collaboration with DijahSB, a fast-rising star in Toronto's hip hop community. Charlotte Cornfield The Shape of Your Name *** Deluxe Reissue on Atlantic Blue LP + bonus 7” *** “You free yourself when you take away the script,” says Toronto songwriter Artist: Charlotte Cornfield Charlotte Cornfield. “That’s where this record came from, dismantling patterns Title: The Shape of Your Name and embracing the process.” The album has a more honed studio sound than Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Indie, Folk her scrappier 2016 release Future Snowbird, and for good reason: it was recorded in 5 different sessions over the course of 3 years. The songs are her strongest and most striking to date - contemplative and contemporary, funny For fans of: Phoebe Bridgers, Big Thief, Julien and heart-wrenching - and they’ve got that stuck-in-your-head-for-days quality Baker, Soccer Mommy, Lucy Dacus that Charlotte is known for. “My initial intention wasn’t to make a record at all,” Cornfield muses. “The In Stores - June 25, 2021 whole thing kind of happened by accident. I went to The Banff Centre to do a residency and came out with these recordings that I knew I wanted to use for LP+7”: NDR0001D something but wasn’t sure what.” She brought the unfinished songs to her LP UPC: 623339916714 former roommate Nigel Ward in Montreal. “He fell into the producer role seamlessly,” says Cornfield. “We took it slow and just tried things for a while until the vision settled in. There was no rush. It was freeing, and it gave the songs a lot of breathing room to develop.” Selling Points Charlotte Cornfield’s The Shape of Your Name was the inaugural release from Next Door Records, originally released in April 2019. Next Door Records is proud to present a deluxe reissue of this monumental album in time for the second anniversary of its release. TRACK LIST The deluxe reissue consists of the original LP, now pressed on Atlantic Blue vinyl, with bonus two-track 7” In My Corner b/w Upstate. 1. June 2. Storm Clouds The Shape of Your Name was longlisted for the prestigious Polaris Prize in 2019. 3. Balladeer At the time, Pitchfork called the album, “A reward reserved for those paying attention”. 4. Andrew After a solid two-year run, the original LP of The Shape of Your Name is now out of print. 5. Silver Civic 6. Wheels The album features a star-studded cast of collaborators including Grammy-winning 7. Up The Hill engineer Shawn Everett , Broken Social Scene members Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew & 8. Peonies Charles Spearin, and Leif Vollebekk. 9. Release Charlotte’s extensive North America and Europe touring history includes shows with Broken Social Scene, Anais Mitchell, Daniel Romano, Tim Darcy and Sam Amidon. BONUS 7” Side A: In My Corner + Side B: Upstate “Her songwriting is ravenous. The windfalls, the crises, the concerts, the chance www.charlottecornfield.com www.instagram.com/charcorn encounters – she’ll sprint through them all, collecting burs. This is work in the www.twitter.com/cornfieldmusic tradition of Dylan or Townes Van Zandt.” - The Globe And Mail Rose City Band Earth Trip Thrill - 540 CD *90377-A5402-6 LP Vinyl is non-returnable *9037H-A5401-9 FOREST GREEN LP Vinyl is non-returnable *90377-54011-6 GENRE : Country/Rock LISTEN HERE FILE UNDER : “R” for Rose City Band Rose City Band is celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson. A prolific songwriter, Johnson started Rose RELEASE DATE : June 25, 2021 City Band to have an outlet to explore songwriting styles apart from Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo, where he is often not the lead songwriter. Rose City Band allowed him to follow his musical muses as they greet him and not be bound by the schedule of bandmates and demands of a touring group. Stepping out from behind the psychedelic haze that envelops his other output, Rose City Band’s lean TRACK LISTING: yet richly textured arrangements lay bare the beauty of his songcraft. On Earth Trip, Johnson reveals more of himself than ever before, coloring the project’s country-rock twang with a melancholic, wistful undertone. It charts a journey of personal growth and introspection with surprising honesty, from pining 1. Silver Roses 5. Lonely Places for summers spent with friends to meditations on space, stillness and the splendor of the natural world. 2. In The Rain 6. Ramblin’ With The Day It continues Rose City Band’s celebration of summer warmth and the great outdoors, seen from a new 3. World Is Turning 7. Rabbit vantage point, and with newfound appreciation for the freedom and joy that nature provides. 4. Feel Of Love 8. Dawn Patrol Earth Trip was written during a period of sudden shocks and drastic lifestyle changes for Johnson. Forced to cancel extensive touring plans for 2020, the guitarist found himself home for an extended period for the first time in years. No longer in constant motion, he was able to experience and enjoy SALES POINTS the simple pleasures of home life, of being in one place: hikes in nature, bathing outside, and waking with the dawn. Forming new connections to his surroundings, from tending to a garden to sleeping out Rose City Band is the solo project of Ripley Johnson under the stars, Johnson found hope and healing in a more mindful relationship with the natural world. (Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo). Themes of recalibration and finding personal space are equally mirrored in Earth Trip’s lean produc- Black and limited forest green vinyl are available in deluxe LP tion. Recorded at his home studio in Portland and mixed by Cooper Crain (Bitchin’ Bajas, Cave), packaging, die-cut jacket with 4-color printing on both the Johnson makes deft use of space while experimenting with new sonics. Shimmering pedal steel, woozy harmonica melodies, and stately piano enhance the album’s introspective tone without ever outside and inside of the jacket. Also with fully artworked clouding arrangements. Psychedelic elements that nod to Johnson’s other projects and influences heavy-weight cardstock printed inner sleeve and download still appear throughout, but hover at the edge of perception, a subtle halo adding colour and texture to card. Johnson’s songwriting rather than taking centrer-stage. He elaborates: “I told Cooper I was trying to Deluxe mini gatefold CD Package. capture that feeling when you take psychedelics and they just start coming on - maybe objects start buzzing in the edges of your vision, you start seeing slight trails, maybe the characteristics of sound Earth Trip features an incredible line up of guests including change subtly. But you’re not fully tripping yet. He got the idea right away and his mix really captures drummer John Jeffrey (Moon Duo), Sanae Yamada (Moon that feeling.” Johnson’s lithe guitar playing throughout treads a fine line between country and cosmic, Duo) on piano, Ryan Jewell, and Barry Walker on pedal steel taut melodies spiralling out into long reverb trails or free-form solos buoyed by a breeze, radiating guitar. summer warmth. In just over a year Rose City Band has established an average Through its daring honesty and masteful arrangements, Earth Trip cements Johnson’s place as a of 56k monthly listeners on Spotify with individual tracks singular songwriter of inimitable skill. It’s message of mindfulness and our interconnectedness to the environment expands on a long country and blues music tradition that draws a symbiotic relationship garnering as many as 380k plays. between storyteller and the land, capturing the beauty of the natural world while also emphasising our responsibility in preserving it for future generations. Mixed by Cooper Crain at Electrical Audio and mastering by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Mastering. ALSO AVAILABLE : “Ripley Johnson has been responsible for some of the past Summerlong LP/CD (Thrill 523) • Rose City Band LP (Thrill 520) decade’s most mesmeric and beguiling albums.”- The ALSO AVAILABLE FROM WOODEN SHJIPS: Guardian West LP/CD (Thrill 279) • V.