Canadian songwriter Barzin will release his fourth full-length album, To Live Alone In That Long Summer, on February 24th, 2014 on Monotreme Records.
His past work has won acclaim from NPR Music "Song of The Day", Salon.com, Stereogum, Uncut, Exclaim!, and La Blogotheque among others.
To Live Alone... follows his well-received 2009 album Notes To An Absent Lover, praised by Mojo Magazine as "Americana Album of The Month".
In the not insignificant stretch of time since his last release, Barzin has pursued projects outside his own songwriting, including assisting in producing his compatriots Memoryhouse's recent album, The Slideshow Effect (Subpop Records). He has also written a book of poems entitled, "Something I Have Not Done Is Following Me."
When he began work on To Live Alone... 3 years ago, Barzin originally envisioned a stripped down affair, but has since traveled in a different direction. While still embracing a relatively minimalist aesthetic, songs that alternate between up and down-tempo are replete with arrangements that envelope the listener like the warm glow of fading daylight. "All the While", one of the highlights of the album, is at once both elegiac and hopeful, with its bright guitar and brisk tempo underpinned by mournful strings and Barzin's soft, melancholy vocals. The dark, percussive "In The Dark You Can Love This Place" lends an exotic nocturnal feel with its winding woodwinds. Another standout track, "Fake It 'til You Make It", is a lush, sweeping cinematic pop number.
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