Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Colyn Cameron — a member of Juno-nominated indie-pop band Wake Owl — has announced a new album, Freehand, out August 5.
"I wanted to make something romantic and nostalgic, but freely allowing the calamitous to have its place," Cameron said of the album in a statement. "I love gadgets and sophistication, being connected, and knowledge but I also find it curious how much is dictated by the obsession with technology, 'progress,' and prosperity.
Concurrently, he has also released a single titled "Fault Lines," his first new music since 2018. The track features Cameron's high, wavering, '70s-inspired tenor floating over a country-tinged slice of sun-soaked melancholy.
Cameron said of the track:
The term "Fault Lines" could serve as a metaphor for many elements of the fractures between things we see and feel but also the past and future, and frankly any pair of opposites. The song is two parts, the first half speaking more to my failures (shortcomings), and the second half more critiquing the world's (sometimes palpable voids).
Watch a Rob Rice-directed lyric video for "Fault Lines" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
Freehand:
1. Deepfakes
2. Sweet Relief
3. Rille
4. Fault Lines
5. Wedding Rings
6. Stream
7. Dead Ends
8. Locarno Beach
9. Pick Me Up
10. Gila Bend
"I wanted to make something romantic and nostalgic, but freely allowing the calamitous to have its place," Cameron said of the album in a statement. "I love gadgets and sophistication, being connected, and knowledge but I also find it curious how much is dictated by the obsession with technology, 'progress,' and prosperity.
Concurrently, he has also released a single titled "Fault Lines," his first new music since 2018. The track features Cameron's high, wavering, '70s-inspired tenor floating over a country-tinged slice of sun-soaked melancholy.
Cameron said of the track:
The term "Fault Lines" could serve as a metaphor for many elements of the fractures between things we see and feel but also the past and future, and frankly any pair of opposites. The song is two parts, the first half speaking more to my failures (shortcomings), and the second half more critiquing the world's (sometimes palpable voids).
Watch a Rob Rice-directed lyric video for "Fault Lines" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
Freehand:
1. Deepfakes
2. Sweet Relief
3. Rille
4. Fault Lines
5. Wedding Rings
6. Stream
7. Dead Ends
8. Locarno Beach
9. Pick Me Up
10. Gila Bend