Sidelining, by Royal Canoe

Sidelining

by Royal Canoe

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Trey Murphy Sidelining represents a truly exceptional album from Royal Canoe, because it showcases the group's impressive range and flexibility. The album has moments of frenetic energy that make you want to dance and sing along. Other songs have a slower tempo that captivates the listener and encourages a close listen to every instrument. Overall, it is quintessential Royal Canoe, and frankly, I think it is their best piece to date. Favorite track: Butterfalls.

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Sidelining is the new album from Royal Canoe out July 9, 2021 on Paper Bag Records.

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Sidelining is the new album from Royal Canoe out on Paper Bag Records on July 9, 2021. This edition has been pressed on cream coloured vinyl with green splatter.

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1.	Sidelining 01:56	buy track
2.	Butterfalls 03:28	buy track
3.	Interlude 00:13	buy track
4.	Surrender 03:39	buy track
5.	Get It 03:11	buy track
6.	Scratching Static (feat. NNAMDÏ) 05:41	buy track
7.	Remmin' 03:01	buy track
8.	Summer Stay 03:04	buy track
9.	Feels Good 03:47	buy track
10.	HAL 06:34	buy track
11.	Alexandria (feat. Begonia) 04:19	buy track

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Royal Canoe would never be characterized as having taken the simple, prescribed path over the past decade. This almost stubborn fascination with finding “the long way around” has resulted in a rich catalog of albums, EPs, videos and experimental live-shows that are as adventurous in their process as they are in their creativity. So when they began working on their latest album Sidelining at Private Ear Studios there was one rule: no song-nuggets or lyrical ideas from before. No demos you came up with last week that you brought to the band. Everything would be built and completed that day. Less second-guessing, more music making.

“We booked studio time, set up and mic’d all of our gear and then just pressed record and tried to let things happen,” says singer Matt Peters. “This is pretty much the complete opposite approach to how we made our previous three albums, where everything was very planned ahead of time. I think at first it felt like this arbitrary test of limitations that might go disastrously, but then we learned to trust ourselves, and follow the ideas as they came, whether it was a drum part, or a chord progression, or a recorder solo. It was really refreshing to capture these ideas in real-time as we were discovering them, and watch these songs start to materialize.”

The result is an album that, at times, aches with the undeniable tensions of the past year. But above all, the songs are an attempt at being raw and honest communicators. They throw up a mirror to challenge old ways. They are cries to tear down the familiar and build it back better.

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Exploring sounds and songs since 2009. NEW ALBUM Sidelining out July 9, 2021!

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