Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell today debuted the band’s next single “Compelled” in a solo acoustic Instagram live performance, and the archived performance can now be seen HERE. The livestream also featured recent single “Weight of That Weekend,” which earned great press from outlets including Stereogum (“exemplifies the melancholy beauty that has always coursed through her songwriting”), Consequence of Sound, Paste, NPR Music (NMF playlist), and Brooklyn Vegan, among others. The two songs offer an early preview of the Montreal-based band’s forthcoming album Indistinct Conversations; originally planned as a May release, the album will now be released in summer 2020 via Saddle Creek. The official audio version of “Compelled” will be released later this month on April 28th.
All 11 songs on Indistinct Conversations were written by Powell (vocals/guitar/keys), and share the hallmarks of the Land of Talk sound: her silvery vocals; masterful, at times cacophonous guitar playing; and a stream-of-conscious lyricism—here perhaps at her most emotionally vulnerable and honest. Powell produced and arranged the tracks together with her bandmates Mark “Bucky” Wheaton (drums/keys) and Christopher McCarron (bass), and the trio recorded the album in a studio built by McCarron in Wheaton’s apartment basement.
Indistinct Conversations follows 2017’s acclaimed Life After Youth—at the time Land of Talk’s first album in seven years. The release saw praise from Pitchfork, Paste, The AV Club, and NPR Music, among others, with its singles earning additional highlights from The FADER, NPR Music’s All Songs Considered, New York Magazine’s Vulture, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Bandcamp, WXPN, and more.
Read an essay on Land of Talk and Indistinct Conversations by author Heather O’Neill HERE. The band’s May and June tour dates have also been postponed.
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