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Award-winning Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with InchAnniversaryInch, an evocative collection of original love songs. Produced with Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker, the album was recorded at 200-year-old St Mark's Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions' spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets. Lapell's deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love's finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. A ghost story is woven through the album waltzing in the dusty barroom country of InchBlue Blaze,Inch buried in the superstitious lyrical streak of InchRattlesnakeInch and audible in a wheezing organ as it shuts down at the end of InchFootsteps.Inch Still, InchAnniversaryInch emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment. Earworms like InchAnniversary SongInch and InchSomeone Like YouInch showcase intricately layered harmonies, while closer InchStarsInch affirms that there's no place the speaker would rather be than with the one she loves. Dekker and Lapell assembled a stellar cast of musicians to support Lapell's powerhouse vocals, piano, harmonica and signature fingerstyle guitar. The core band includes Dan Fortin on bass, Jake Oelrichs on drums, and Tania Gill on the church's piano, harpsichord and organ. Rounding out the ensemble's sensitive orchestral arrangements are Rebecca Hennessy (trumpet), Rachael Cardiello (viola), Michael Davidson (marimba and vibraphone) and Joe Lapinsky (pedal steel), who also engineered and mixed the record. Abigail Lapell has garnered three Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 40 million + streams across digital services. She has toured widely across Canada and the U.S, and will be touring internationally (UK, EU, AUS and

Abigail Lapell's InchLullabiesInch is a haunting collection of traditional songs from around the world, arranged and performed on classical guitar and vocals. Recorded by Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies at his Toronto studio, the project includes songs in English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish, German, Japanese and Welsh. The recording features original guitar and vocal arrangements and, in some cases, new English lyrical adaptations. InchLullabiesInch also includes one original song in English, based on a fragment of a half-remembered bedtime song from her mother. The project was inspired in part by a bout of insomnia during COVID lockdowns, and fueled by the exigencies of isolation throughout 2021-22. With repertoire drawn from her experience as an early childhood music educator, the album also coincided with the arrival of several babies in Lapell's extended family, and with her and her partner's own journey trying to conceive. Alternately sweet and foreboding, this body of work illuminates some of the darker themes lurking beneath the surface of so many beloved folk tunes. Like fairy tales and traditional ballads of all kinds, these story-songs often touch upon deeper cultural memories, spiritual lessons or cautionary tales. At the same time, their familiar and comforting imagery the moon and stars in orbit; an intimate fireside tableau; landscapes shrouded in darkness ultimately hold the promise of safe passage between waking and dreams, through the liminal space at the border between earthly and numinous realms. Above all, these lullabies are dedicated to dreamers of all ages, and to the eternal human quest for a good night's sleep. Abigail Lapell is an indie-folk songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto. Her three albums have won three Canadian Folk Music Awards (English Songwriter of the Year in 2020/2023, and Contemporary Album of the Year in 20

Originally released February 1, 2019, and long since out of print, Abigail Lapell is proud to reissue InchGetawayInch as a limited edition InchAdriatic BlueInch pressing on June 2, 2023.From the original notes Call it prairie noir, or Canadiana desert rock Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs, mapping epic natural landscapes and deeply intimate, personal territory. The Toronto vocalist, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist has released three acclaimed solo albums-Hide Nor Hair, her Chris Stringer-produced sophomore LP, won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year in 2017. Since then, Lapell has been on the road, touring across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and playing at festivals like Pop Montreal, Mariposa, In The Dead Of Winter, Tiny Lights and Folk On The Rocks.For Getaway, Lapell spent time in the mountains, digging through her vault of unreleased material, and ended up with dozens of road songs to choose from. Working again with producer Chris Stringer, she expanded her pool of collaborators, recruiting Christine Bougie (Bahamas) on lap steel, Dan Fortin (Bernice) on bass and Jake Oelrichs on drums. Getaway sounds fuller than Lapell's previous records, her signature howl and warm, melodic guitar chops matched by a bluesy rhythm section. One of the record's most striking moments is just acoustic guitar and two voices Lapell and Sipos, captured live in a room together, harmonizing overtop plucked strings on the transfixing InchDown by the Water.Inch The result is Lapell's most eclectic and confident album to date. Inch'Getaway' pushes at the bounds of what Lapell has achieved so far. Drawing horns, harmonica, and even an accordion together, the soundscapes paint pictures of their own.Inch -Exclaim!InchHaunting voice and impeccable guitar playing.Inch - CBC InchTraces of Natalie Merchant, Sharon Van Etten, Frazey Ford an