[Cover photo credit to Kenneth Locke]

Calgary-based singer/songwriter Emily Triggs is gearing up to release her latest album The Great Escape on March 28, 2024 and has revealed the first single and video, “Summer In Nevada.” It was created in homage to those who witnessed and participated in U.S. nuclear weapons testing during the 1950s and ’60s. The track also reflects The Great Escape‘s “overall exploration of different aspects of North American culture.”

The album is titled The Great Escape because for Triggs it “represents a break from old ways of thinking” that have held her back “both artistically and personally.”

The Great Escape was produced by longtime Neko Case collaborator Paul Rigby, who also played a lot of instruments on the album. Other contributors to the sessions in Vancouver were engineer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Carswell (Destroyer, The Evaporators), bassist Darren Paris (Frazey Ford), drummer Geoff Hicks (Colin James) and engineer Erik Nielsen (City and Colour).

Emily Triggs says:

My last album Middletown was about resilience, but sometimes you don’t need to be resilient, you need to change. You don’t have to leave a place, it can be metaphoric; you just have to leave a past version of yourself behind.

Triggs album Middletown was nominated for a Folk Music Canada Award and a Western Canadian Music Award in 2021, setting the stage for The Great Escape.