Toronto-based synthpop artist TOVI (real name Rebecca Emms) has announced her debut album I Keep Floating Away, due out June 17. TOVI has also released new single "I Don't Think We Can Be Friends," alongside a self-directed music video.
Emms said of the album in a release:
The album was recorded in the middle of winter in a Toronto lockdown. I went as far with the track as I could in my home studio (including recording vocals) and Josh filled in the missing pieces; whether it be live drums, modular synth, or new ideas for song structure - we really played to each other's strengths perfectly. The record includes songs I wrote pre-COVID as well as during dead-of-winter/lockdown-times, so I feel like I'm moving through a lot of different emotions across the album.
I Keep Floating Away was produced by Josh Korody (Breeze, Nailbiter) with mastering by Jesse F Keeler (Death From Above 1979, MSTRKRFT).
In regards to the new single, Emms said the song is a "mini anthem about learning to let go of people who cause you heartache or just made you feel bad. Sonically, I think the track channels some of the albums I loved in my teens — like Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Fever to Tell — just pure fun."
Speaking about the video, Emms added: "This song, the colour of each instrument really comes across to me with so much personality. My aim with the video was to basically put a 'face' to the sound — the movement and colour of these sonic personalities."
Watch the video for "I Don't Think We Can Be Friends" and find the tracklist for I Keep Floating Away below.
I Keep Floating Away:
1. Just Our Luck
2. Progress
3. I Don't Think We Can Be Friends
4. Mad Melancholia
5. Loose Ends
6. Money on My Mind
7. Storm Warning
8. Tennessee Baby
9. Impossible Things
Emms said of the album in a release:
The album was recorded in the middle of winter in a Toronto lockdown. I went as far with the track as I could in my home studio (including recording vocals) and Josh filled in the missing pieces; whether it be live drums, modular synth, or new ideas for song structure - we really played to each other's strengths perfectly. The record includes songs I wrote pre-COVID as well as during dead-of-winter/lockdown-times, so I feel like I'm moving through a lot of different emotions across the album.
I Keep Floating Away was produced by Josh Korody (Breeze, Nailbiter) with mastering by Jesse F Keeler (Death From Above 1979, MSTRKRFT).
In regards to the new single, Emms said the song is a "mini anthem about learning to let go of people who cause you heartache or just made you feel bad. Sonically, I think the track channels some of the albums I loved in my teens — like Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Fever to Tell — just pure fun."
Speaking about the video, Emms added: "This song, the colour of each instrument really comes across to me with so much personality. My aim with the video was to basically put a 'face' to the sound — the movement and colour of these sonic personalities."
Watch the video for "I Don't Think We Can Be Friends" and find the tracklist for I Keep Floating Away below.
I Keep Floating Away:
1. Just Our Luck
2. Progress
3. I Don't Think We Can Be Friends
4. Mad Melancholia
5. Loose Ends
6. Money on My Mind
7. Storm Warning
8. Tennessee Baby
9. Impossible Things