[Cover photo credit to Jimmy Limit]

Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle has announced her new album Camelot, due for release on November 1st, 2024 via Paradise of Bachelors and Solstice Radio. She has also released new single “Lucky #8,” an “ode to dancing as a bulwark” against the “tidal pools of pain” and the “theory of collapse.”

Co-producer Jeff McMurrich provides the song’s guitars. with an assist from special guest Cass McCombs on slide guitar.

The release of “Lucky #8” comes with a video that Castle created using footage of historic gymnastics routines that were a formative part of her childhood.

Jennifer Castle says that “Lucky #8”

…sort of has that energetic vibe to it, where it attempts a stunt lyrically (in my mind) to absorb all the possibilities of life into one moment and to be okay with that complexity, instead of fracturing off into myriad neurotic narratives.

With regard to the video, Castle adds:

Questing through the smudged screen to where the inexhaustible competition for greatness twirls. The body is a noble sword, bandaged. But did they win? Sometimes even now that adrenaline takes flight within me. But can I win? And win at what? Lay it on its side, sweet angel. Infinity is victory.