Track shall be on Canadian modern folks artist’s forthcoming album A Name From Someplace Else
After sharing a handful of singles over the previous a number of years, Canadian singer/songwriter Drea Lake is making ready to indicate off her full vary on a debut full-length album, A Name From Someplace Else, set for launch in autumn 2025. At the moment, she presents the primary preview, “4U,” a tune that shows Drea’s distinctive strategy to her craft, mixing unconventional preparations with immediately memorable hooks, all held collectively together with her hovering vocals.
“‘4U’ is de facto an anthem for love, dedication and the sense of freedom that goes together with dwelling within the nation,” Drea says. “It’s the tune on the album that I most hope folks will bounce to. Olivia Esther additionally added one thing particular to it together with her French horn and Nicholas Baddely added some fantastic train-style beats. It’s only one instance of the care that we put into this tune total.”
That care definitely extends to the remainder of Drea’s new materials, co-produced and that includes the famend Quebecois acoustic guitarist Antoine Dufour, together with a bunch of different contributors drawn from the worlds of Canadian roots, jazz, and classical music. Mixing genres has all the time been a serious focus of Drea’s compositional fashion, and he or she got here to the album periods with about 20 songs she felt had essentially the most potential for collaboration. These have been finally whittled right down to the ultimate eight songs, which she describes as coming collectively “with none unfastened ends. I can’t take them any additional, no less than for now, and that’s when you’ll want to share them with others.”
Drea maintains that her major inspiration is her connection to nature, one thing she experiences via splitting her time between rural southern Ontario and areas surrounding Montreal. “The moods of the songs on this album vary from joyous elation, to extra quiet, virtually soothing, types of pleasure, to dreaminess, a way of thriller and warning, to heartbreak and reflective remorse. In most songs, there are classes we study from the pure world, akin to totally different types of love, friendship, spirituality, and musical camaraderie. Below all of these themes lies nature.”
Though Drea self-effacingly describes herself as a “perennial newbie” by way of her musical evolution, the main target she has put into her craft has set her other than a few of her contemporaries throughout the folks music discipline, regardless of her slim discography so far. However that’s all about to vary together with her upcoming album, which for all intents and functions shall be her formal introduction to the broader music world.