Land Of Talk have just debuted a new video for “It’s Okay”. Directed by WeWereMonkeys “It’s Okay” is the third of three new Land Of Talk videos; preceded by clips for “The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)” and “Troubled” All three videos can be found on the bands new Fun & Laughter EP along with four new songs. You can find the songs corresponding to the videos on their debut album Some Are Lakes.
Watch the new Land of Talk videos on YouTube:
“It’s Okay”
“Troubled”
“The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)”
The band also begins a North American tour today in San Diego with a free in-store at Lou’s Records in Encinitas. Check out the dates below:
Fall 2009
Mon-Oct-26, Encinitas, CA, Lou’s Records (free in-store at 5pm)
Tue-Oct-27, San Diego, CA, Casbah
Thu-Oct-29, Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland
Fri-Oct-30, Visalia, CA, Cellar Door
Mon-Nov-02, San Francisco, CA, Cafe Du Nord
Wed-Nov-02, Portland, OR, Doug Fir Lounge
Thu-Nov-05, Seattle, WA, High Dive
Fri-Nov-06, Bellingham, WA, Nightlight
Sat-Nov-07, Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
Thu-Nov-12, Montreal, QC, Segal Centre
Wed-Nov-18, Cambridge, MA, Middle East
Fri-Nov-19, Burlington, VT, Club Metronome
Sat-Nov-20, Northampton, MA, Iron Horse
Sun-Nov-21, New York, NY, Mercury Lounge
10/27-11/6 with Eulogies
Here’s a really cool new song from Land Of Talk off of their new EP, Fun and Laughter. The band seems to be expanding its sound a bit and it makes you wish there were more than 4 new songs!
Fun And Laughter , which includes four brand new songs, and three videos, will be available in CD and digital formats. The CD version features screen printed art designed by the band in a special edition package, and will only be available from select indie retailers, saddle-creek.com, landoftalk.com, and at venues on the road.
Track Listing:
Sixteen Asterisk
May You Never
As Me
A Series Of Small Flames
The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle) - Video
Troubled - Video
Some Are Lakes - Video
Tour Dates:
Tue-Oct-27, San Diego, CA, Casbah
Thu-Oct-29, Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland
Fri-Oct-30, Visalia, CA, Cellar Dooor
Mon-Nov-02, San Francisco, CA, Cafe Du Nord
Wed-Nov-04, Portland, OR, Doug Fir Lounge
Thu-Nov-05, Seattle, WA, High Dive
Fri-Nov-06, Bellingham, WA, Nightlight
Sat-Nov-07, Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
Land of Talk have announced a west coast tour beginning October 27th in San Diego, and running through November 7th in Vancouver B.C.. To complement to tour, the band will be releasing an EP with 4 new songs and 3 videos, entitled ‘Fun and Laughter’. After having been sidelined for much of the year with a vocal ailment, front woman Elizabeth Powell is now gearing up for a busy fall. Here are the tour dates and the EP tracklisting:
Tour Dates:
10/27 - San Diego, CA, Casbah
10/29 - Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland
10/30 - Visalia , CA, Cellar Door
11/02 - San Francisco, CA, Cafe DuNord
11/04 - Portland, OR, Doug Fir
11/05 - Seattle, WA, High Dive
11/06 - Bellingham, WA, The Nightlight
11/07 - Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
Track Listing:
Sixteen Asterisk
May You Never (1996)
As Me
A Series Of Small Flames
The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle) - Video
Troubled - Video
Some Are Lakes - Video
November 4, 2008 // Toronto, ON – Fresh off a three-week run in the U.S. with Broken Social Scene, Montreal trio Land of Talk have announced additional Fall tour dates in North America and beyond in support of their debut full-length, Some Are Lakes. The album, which hit stores earlier this month via Saddle Creek in America and Secret City distribution in Canada, has been garnering glowing reviews, along with their performances. Dates continue starting Thursday night in Winnipeg, MB and run through December 12 in London, UK (compete dates below).
Some high praise for Some Are Lakes::
“[Some Are Lakes] casts its own illumination, intense yet rarely harsh” - New York Times
“[On Some Are Lakes] the spotlight stays on charismatic Elizabeth Powell, who grinds out chunky guitar noise as she attacks the mic with a slow-burn drawl that suggests Lucinda Williams fronting a power trio.” – Spin (4 out of 5 stars)
“Powell is no mere singer-songwriter dressing herself up in rock-trio cliché: She really seems to think, feel, sleep, and reason in the language of rock ‘n’ roll.” - Village Voice
“Canadian trio evolve past the jagged noise of their debut EP in favor of subversive melodies, all with foxy Elizabeth Powell at the helm.” - Rolling Stone
Check out the new Tour Dates:
11/6/08 – Winnipeg, MB @ Lo Pub#
11/7/08 – Saskatoon, SK @ Univ. of Saskatchewan #
11/8/08 – Edmonton, AB @ Pawn Shop #
11/9/08 – Calgary, AB @ Broken City #
11/12/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Media Club #
11/15/08 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
11/18/08 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom *
11/19/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *
11/20/08 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon *
11/21/08 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing *
11/22/08 – Pompano, FL @ Club Cinema *
11/27/08 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy *
11/29/08 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who ^
12/1/08 – Berlin, DE @ Festaal Kreuzberg ^
12/2/08 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega ^
12/4/08 – Heidelburg, DE @ Zum Teufel ^
12/5/08 – Offenbach, DE @ Hafen 2 Club ^
12/6/08 – Ghent, BE @ Etolie Poliviers Festival w/ Bon Iver
12/8/08 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique ^
12/9/08 – Paris, FR @ Main D’Oeuvres ^
12/10/08 – London, UK @ Water Rats
* w/ Broken Social Scene
# w/ Josh Reichmann
^ w/ Think About Life
Here they are performing the title track to their debut album, Some Are Lakes:
Here’s a second MP3 from Land Of Talk’s forthcoming debut full-length, Some Are Lakes. See below for upcoming tour dates!
Land Of Talk - ‘Corner Phone’ (right click, save as)
BIO:
After more than two years of touring for their debut release, and having gained and lost a few members, Land of Talk retired to their hometown of Montreal to roll tape on a batch of new songs.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Elizabeth Powell set about making an album that could encompass a great deal with very little, an aesthetic in stark contrast to the orchestral pop and digi-tweaked indie chic. With bassist Chris McCarron and drummer Andrew Barr (The Slip), the band set up in an old converted church outside of Montreal and recorded 9 songs with the helping hands of Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). The tenth and final track “Troubled” was recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, at Vernon’s parents’ home.
Land of Talk isn’t so banal as to pretend that a new album is a departure, or a disconnected effort from the last. There’s a longer narrative at work here and this isn’t some paint-by-numbers pop. It’s simply a continuation of the internal conversation Powell has been holding with herself since she began this musical lark, more than a decade ago, with a 14 year-old’s creaky-voiced acuteness, spouting the uncomfortable truths of a woman thrice her years and many times more guarded.
The album opener, “Yuppy Flu”, and the two songs that follow, “Death By Fire” and “The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)”, are stealthy nods to Land of Talk’s much ballyhooed debut EP Applause Cheer Boo Hiss. Powell is as unrelenting in her appraisal of the world as she’s ever been, and it’s a world as pitiably venal as it is lovingly rendered. These songs might easily have sat in tandem with the urgent rawness of the EP tracks but with Powell’s sense of story and Vernon’s fresh perspective, they find better use on the new album. Here they set a perfect bridge from the jangling dissonance and ferocious doubled voicings of the debut, towards the road-weathered clarity and reflectiveness she has now begun to own so fully–a narrative string from there, to here, and beyond. When the titular track hits four songs in, it’s clear why “Some Are Lakes” is the album’s anthem call, as much a nostalgic tramp through summers past and love unending as a backhand ode to the very album it appears on. It’s a statement of intent with a sea change at its heart.
“It started at a summer lake / a sentence and a name / If only for a moment’s sake/ We called it and it came” Powell sings. The fierce spotlight of Powell’s attention points inward and has begun exposing a more private side of the nascent iconoclast. There’s nothing fragile in it. The honesty makes it steel. That in itself is a kind wonder. Where once one might have questioned whether Powell was shielding herself under the gauze and frenzy of her music, songs like “It’s Okay,” with its Afghan Whigs-inspired soul, and the alt-country amble of “Troubled” prove that she is ready to strike at the heart of even her own cherished conceits, and come out of it fresh, fighting fit and game for putting herself on the line in the spirit of true musical confession.
As a portent of things to come Some Are Lakes is nothing short of inspiring. On its own merits, it’s simply striking. The simplest things are the hardest to make.
TOUR DATES:
Thu-Sep-18, Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod’s
Fri-Sep-19, Montreal, PQ @ La Sala Rosa
Sat-Sep-20, Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club
Mon-Sep-22, Laval, PQ @ CEJEP
Tue-Sep-23, Sherbrooke, PQ @ Telephone Rouge
Wed-Sep-24, Peterborough, ON @ Montreal House
Thu-Sep-25, Guelph, ON @ E Bar
Fri-Sep-26, Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
Sat-Sep-27, Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s
Wed-Oct-08, Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin College
Thu-Oct-09, Chicago, IL, Vic Theatre
Sat-Oct-11, Madison, WI @ Union Theatre/Univ. of Wisconsin
Mon-Oct-13, Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Tue-Oct-14, Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
Thu-Oct-16, Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont
Fri-Oct-17, Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
Sat-Oct-18, St. Louis, MO @ The Gargoyle
Sun-Oct-19, Urbana, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium/Univ. of Illinois
Tue-Oct-21, Richmond, VA @ Toad’s Place
Wed-Oct-22, Falls Church, VA @ State Theatre
Fri-Oct-24, Brooklyn, NY @ Masonic Temple
Sat-Oct-25, Brunswick, ME @ Bowdoin College
Sun-Oct-26, Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre
10/8-26 with Broken Social Scene
Montreal trio Land of Talk have announced North American Fall tour plans in support of their debut full-length, Some Are Lakes, set for release October 7 via Saddle Creek in America and self-released through Secret City distribution in Canada. Touring will kick off with a special performance in New York City, September 11 at The Mercury Lounge, before two-weeks of east coast Canadian dates. The band will then commence a three-week run of U.S. dates opening for Broken Social Scene, starting October 8 in Grand Rapids, MI.
Land Of Talk front person, Elizabeth Powell, will join Broken Social Scene each night on the tour as guest vocalist on various songs throughout their set in addition to Land of Talk’s opening performance. Elizabeth can be heard contributing vocals on the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning Something For All Of Us…. album as well as the soundtrack to the Broken Social Scene scored film The Tracey Fragments, starring Ellen Page.
The soon to be released Some Are Lakes continues to showcase the bands powerful dynamics, raw musical and Powell’s vocal convictions which Time Out NY called, “a voice that flits between come-hither and go-fuck-yourself.”
See for yourself! All tour details are as follows:
8/9/08 – Wolfe Island, ON @ Wolfe Island Festival
9/11/08 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
9/13/08 – Quebec City, PQ @ Envol & Macadam Festival +
9/18/08 – Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod’s
9/19/08 – Montreal, PQ @ La Sala Rosa
9/20/08 – Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club
9/22/08 – Laval, PQ @ CEJEP
9/23/08 – Sherbrooke, PQ @ Telephone Rouge
9/24/08 – Peterborough, ON @ Montreal House
9/25/08 – Guelph, ON @ E Bar
9/26/08 – Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
9/27/08 – Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s
10/8/08 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin College *
10/11/08 – Madison, WI @ Union Theatre/Univ. of Wisconsin *
10/13/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
10/14/08 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *
10/16/08 – Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont *
10/17/08 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note *
10/18/08 – St. Louis, MO @ The Gargoyle *
10/19/08 – Urbana, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium/Univ. of Illinois *
10/21/08 – Richmond, VA @ Toad’s Place *
10/22/08 – Falls Church, VA @ State Theatre *
10/24/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Masonic Temple *
10/25/08 – Brunswick, ME @ Bowdoin College *
10/26/08 – Boston, MA @ Wilburt Theatre *
+ w/ Islands & Sebastian Grainger
* w/ Broken Social Scene
Here’s a cool tune by Land of Talk called “Speak to me bones”:
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