On Sept. 16, 3X GRAMMY Award winner and world phenomenon Sarah McLachlan launched “Reminds Me” that includes MUNA’s Katie Gavin, the third single from Higher Damaged, out this Friday through Harmony Information. The pedal-steel-laced reverie is a heartfelt meditation on love’s potential to revive and uplift. McLachlan and Gavin seize the tender stability of vulnerability and pleasure, celebrating how transformative love may be. Pre-order the album and stream “Reminds Me” HERE. Watch the “Reminds Me” music video HERE.
“‘Reminds Me’ was written on acoustic guitar throughout COVID. I went down the Yellowstone rabbit gap on TV and form of fell in love with the entire cowboy nation music factor and thought, ‘I wish to write a love music.’” I wish to write a cowboy love music. That’s form of what it was known as for some time,” McLachlan shares. “It was additionally an anniversary current for my partner-so that was type of the impetus to put in writing it. I simply needed it to be easy and pure and exquisite, possibly a little bit bit sappy. And I like that we received Katie Gavin to sing on it within the studio.”
Named one in all fall’s most anticipated albums by the New York Occasions, McLachlan’s tenth studio album and debut launch for Harmony Information, Higher Damaged takes its title from its opening observe – a soul-searching reflection on the fortitude that comes from weathering life’s fixed storms – and furthers her legacy with a choice of songs that talk an uncompromising however radically illuminating reality concerning the state of the human situation.
Primarily recorded on the legendary Sound Metropolis Studios in Los Angeles, Higher Damaged instills a potent new vitality into her lush and moody type of pop-rock, with contributions from esteemed musicians like Wendy Melvoin (a former guitarist for Prince and the Revolution), drummer Matt Chamberlain (Bob Dylan, David Bowie), multi-instrumentalist Benny Bock (Lucy Dacus, beabadoobee), and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Kacey Musgraves, Florence + the Machine). In a monumental leap for McLachlan, Higher Damaged finds her widening her artistic circle and dealing with producers Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, boygenius) and Will Maclellan (Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers).
The observe itemizing’s myriad excessive factors embrace “One In a Lengthy Line,” an irrepressible anthem railing in opposition to the speedy erosion of ladies’s rights in recent times, “Lengthy Street Dwelling,” a rapturous love music, “Gravity,” the primary music recorded for the album, and the “resolute” (The New York Occasions) title observe. All all through Higher Damaged, McLachlan and her fellow musicians convey an ineffable magnificence to her expression of longing and grief and fierce willpower.
Over the course of her three-decades-long profession, McLachlan has received 3 GRAMMY Awards, 12 JUNO Awards, and bought over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan additionally based the groundbreaking all-female music pageant Lilith Honest, that includes an A-list lineup for feminine different musicians of the second, together with Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Women, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Service provider and extra. Lilith Honest: Constructing A Thriller, a brand new documentary directed by Ally Pankiw and produced by Dan Levy’s Not A Actual Manufacturing Firm made its world premiere on the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition on September 13 and is about to premiere in Canada on CBC/CBC Gem beginning September 17 at 8:00pm native (8:30pm NL) and within the U.S. on Hulu on September 21.
McLachlan can also be a philanthropist and the founding father of Sarah McLachlan College of Music (SoM), a not-for-profit that gives music instruction and mentorship for free of charge to kids and youth dealing with limitations to entry. SoM was based in Vancouver in 2002 and it at the moment serves over 1,200 college students a yr with places in Vancouver, New Westminster and Edmonton. McLachlan personally covers the executive prices so that each greenback raised goes on to assist the scholars.
Higher Damaged Monitor itemizing:
01. Higher Damaged
02. Gravity
03. The Final to Go
04. Solely Approach Out Is By means of
05. Reminds Me (feat. Katie Gavin)
06. One In a Lengthy Line
07. Solely Human
08. Lengthy Street Dwelling
09. Rise
10. Wilderness
11. If This Is the Finish…
Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling In the direction of Ecstasy thirtieth Anniversary Canadian Tour kicks off this fall, celebrating 30 years of her landmark multi-platinum album. The 17-date cross-country run begins October 15 in Victoria and wraps November 9 in Peterborough. Following sold-out reveals final summer season, McLachlan returns to Toronto and Montreal by widespread demand. Acoustic concord trio Tiny Habits will assist all dates. Tickets can be found right here: https://www.sarahmclachlan.com/occasions/
$1 per ticket will likely be donated to the not-for-profit Sarah McLachlan College of Music, which gives high-quality music training and mentorship free to kids and youth dealing with limitations to entry. For extra data or to donate, please go to www.sarahschoolofmusic.com.
FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2025 DATES:
October 15 – Victoria, BC – Save On Meals Memorial Centre
October 17 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
October 18 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
October 19 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
October 21 – Saskatoon, SK – SaskTel Centre
October 22 – Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre
October 25 – Windsor, ON – The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
October 26 – London, ON – Canada Life Place
October 28 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
October 29 – Montreal, QC – Place des Arts – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
October 30 – Montreal, QC – Place des Arts – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
November 1 – Quebec Metropolis, QC – Videotron Centre
November 3 – Moncton, NB – Avenir Centre
November 4 – Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre
November 7 – Rama, ON – On line casino Rama Resort
November 8 – Toronto, ON – Massey Corridor
November 9 – Peterborough, ON – Peterborough Memorial Centre
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