Devon Welsh, former frontman of critically acclaimed art-pop duo Majical Cloudz, just announced his sophomore solo album, True Love coming October 11 on his own record label You Are Accepted. The Canadian artist shared entrancing single "Faces" from the upcoming album and new track "War" ahead of tour dates in Canada and New York next month.
In an age of collaborations and high-end production, Devon Welsh highlights the importance of the individual voice as an instrument in music with rigor, vulnerability, and grace. From 2010 to present, his body of work has pushed language to the fore in service of closing the space between artist and listener, prizing human connection above all. With his duo Majical Cloudz, Welsh found a huge audience for that vision: he released two critically-acclaimed LPs with Matador Records, and went from DIY house-show tours to playing arenas with Lorde. After disbanding Majical Cloudz in 2016, Welsh released his first critically praised solo album, Dream Songs in 2018, before leaving his longtime home of Montreal for rural Wisconsin. Upcoming album True Love strengthens the poetry, illumination, and appealing minimalism of Welsh's best work. Here he reflects on the ambiguous emotional spaces around love - romantic, platonic, internal; how love can be a game, a daydream, a paradise, or horror. Flipping the fantasy of "true love" that prevails through pop culture, Welsh set out to articulate the human heart from realer angles and depths.Photo Credit: NIKA
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