Shane Ghostkeeper went solo for last year's Songs for My People, and with that album recently having been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, he's now bringing back his band Ghostkeeper for a new single.
UPDATE (7/24, 11:48 a.m. ET): Ghostkeeper have detailed their new album Cîpayak Joy, on which they teamed up with longtime engineer Brad Hawkins, as well as Jay Crocker, who stepped up to produce the record.
"Brad would come down to the basement, Sarah would work up a drum beat, and I'd start improvising, coming up with different vocal ideas and other melodic parts, finding the songs in the sounds," Shane recalled in a statement. "It was all about being immediate, with no premeditated ideas."
The band have additionally shared the album's tracklist and a new single called "Raven," which Shane describes as "a mantra written to manifest a life together in which we walk, talk and breathe in a good way with nature and all her realms. Living in the realm of the raven and embracing that medicine keeps us in solidarity and committed to each other's well-being. May the spirit of the raven keep us well as we walk in the realm of rock n roll."
Check that out below. Cîpayak Joy is out August 28 on Victory Pool Records.
Cîpayak Joy:
1. Astum Ota
2. Lipstick
3. Raven
4. Phantom
5. Dark at the Helm
6. Sleep Dream
7. Storm Chaser
8. Maps
The new song "Lipstick" was made by the core duo of Shane Ghostkeeper and Sarah Houle, and it's a nostalgic love song set to a whirring, robotic soundscape of abstract trap beats and Auto-Tuned R&B.
Shane Ghostkeeper said in a statement, "This song was conceived out of a sweet moment of romantic nostalgia: shared cigarettes outside of Broken City after a show, shooting our own Super 8 music videos, and a photo booth picture that remains in the breast pocket of my jean jacket that Sarah sent to me while away at art school in Halifax after our very first summer of love. 'Lipstick' is dedicated to all you lovers out there."
Below, watch a video by Jared Sych. It brings an avant-garde dance performance to a large empty building that appears to be some sort of a shopping mall or community centre.