Here’s the premiere of the single “Whitehorse" from the new record: liveinlimbo.com
Here’s where you can buy/listen to the whole collection of songs:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kimbarlow12
About the album:
Some of the East Coast’s best jazz, folk and pop musicians play on this record. Mark Adam on drums, keys and vocals, Nicholas D’Amato on bass, Joel Leblanc on electric guitar, Heather Kelday & Chris Luedecke on vocals, and Toronto guitarist Justin Haynes.
The distinctive and charming voice of Old Man Luedecke is featured on Daily A-Growing and he sang backups on Not My Little Baby and String Bean.
Producer & engineer Mark Adam has a new studio in the Gaspereau, NS. Without Mark's vision and enthusiasm as a producer, I might not have made a new record at all! We had a lot of fun building some wild sounds in the straw-bale barn studio.
Marcus Paquin in Montreal mixed the album. He has mixed The Barr Brothers, the National, Hey Rosetta!, Little Scream, Timbre Timber, Arcade Fire, etc. etc. He brought great ideas and energy to the material and made bold, creative mixes. It was mastered at the amazing Archive Mastering Studio, NS.
The recording process brought these songs to life in a way I hadn't imagined happening at all. Between Mark’s daughter’s hockey practices and my tiny dictators’ demands, we would go in the studio and use all the tools available to us, and think big. We nudged the songs into a world that is not quiet, or humble or understated - we got loud and proud, punky and epic. We’ve made these grand, creative pop songs for you, to conjure something meaningful, and for dancing in the kitchen.
Many of the new songs are very personal, about my family. I am influenced by the writing of women like novelist Rachel Cusk, who says about mothers and their children: “When she is with them she is not herself; when she is without them she is not herself.” and Claudia Dey, “Here is the artist-mother’s bar graph: line one—the multiplying size and need of her expression—held up against line two—the rapid dissolution of time.” I have been parenting small children for the past five years, and writing songs quietly after bedtime. Of course the subjects of my daily life have found their way into the songs, and my daily life has been small and domestic. These songs also contain my fears, as the world sinks, other peoples’ children suffer, and I try to make sense of our situation. Three of the tracks are traditional Maritime tunes, also about families and their troubles, in different difficult times. These are the subjects that have been swirling in my head, waiting to get sung!