[Cover photo credit to Jen Squires]
Toronto singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell shared her newest single + video “Rattlesnake.” It’s the latest release from her upcoming album Anniversary, out May 10th, 2024 via Outside Music. The song is “an ode to love and superstition.”
Lapell says:
‘Rattlesnake’ weaves together fragments of lore and superstition with a long-distance love story. It came out of a fascination with different superstitious traditions, love omens, herbalist incantations – in the song, these are offered as a series of aphorisms to a beloved out on some kind of journey, hopefully soon to return.
The accompanying video presents the song in a historic 200-year-old church, with dual screens illustrating the looping nature of the song.
Abigail Lapell will be embarking on a North American tour this Spring, making US stops across the East Coast with more dates to be announced. Tickets for all shows are available here.
Lapell is also the featured vocalist on Best Western’s new ad campaign “Life’s a Trip,” featuring an original take on The Band’s song “The Weight.”
On her upcoming album Anniversary, Abigail Lapell “interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together.” The album’s 11 songs “track the revolving days, seasons, and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love.”
Anniversary was recorded in the historic 200-year-old St. Mark’s Church adjoining a cemetery, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Lapell tapped Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers) to co-Produce the album, who helped shape the project’s sound while lending his voice to a few duets.
The two assembled a cast of musicians to round out the album and the recordings also making use of the church’s in-house piano, harpsichord and several antique organs.
US Tour Dates:
May 30 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Caffe Lena
May 31 Northampton, MA @ Parlor Room
June 1 Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim
June 2 Exeter, NH @ The Wordbarn
June 4 Portland, ME @ Oxbow
June 5 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
June 6 New York, NY @ Cafe Wha?
June 7 Monkton, MD @ Manner Mill
June 10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
June 13 Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
June 15 Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
