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Attuned to life's impermanence, 100 mile house cherishes what we have, yet accepts that eventually it will all be gone.

There's a poignant double meaning behind the new album Love and Leave You by the Edmonton, Canada, based folk duo 100 mile house. As on their award-winning previous work, Peter Stone and Denise MacKay seem naturally attuned to life's impermanence; the reality that we must cherish what we have, while knowing we must eventually let it go.

Made with a host of guests ranging from JUNO nominee Chloe Albert to a heart-swelling string section, Love and Leave You builds on the themes of longing and love of 2016's Hiraeth, which earned 100 mile house a Western Canadian Music Award, and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination. On Love and Leave You they have emerged--stronger, wiser, and more honest than ever before.

Denise explains, ''Our writing has evolved from songs about Peter moving to Canada from England and the two of us meeting each other, to songs about the struggles of starting a family, the loss of loved ones and how the visions you had for your life inevitably change. We believe our songs have grown in the same way our relationship has as we've matured.''

From a sonic perspective, Peter adds, ''For Love and Leave You, we decided to strip everything back, and even though there's a fair bit of instrumentation on it, I'd say it's our most bare bones recording to date. I wanted to take this approach to give the album its own character, but also to force the songwriting and lyrics to the forefront.''

As they approach two decades since their first chance meeting, both Stone and MacKay's lives and the music they make have become inseparable. It's palpable the moment you hear them sing together, and cuts even deeper as the stories they tell unfold. 100 mile house make timeless music in the truest sense; by opening themselves up in ways many of us wish we could. And on Love and Leave You, with Stone's deft production br

A tapestry of hurtin' and feelin' tunes about life on and off Canada's barstools!

Ayla Brook (pronounced Ey-Lah) makes music as raw and vast as the Canadian prairies and as broad and deep as the Pacific Ocean. From his remote conception in BC's Refuge Cove, to his upbringing in Lily Plain, Saskatchewan, to forming The Sound Men in the prairie capital city of Edmonton, Ayla has never wavered from his original vision of honest roots rock.

That vision is brilliantly captured on Desolation Sounds, the new album by Ayla Brook & The Sound Men, produced by Terra Lightfoot and mixed by Jon Auer of The Posies and Big Star fame. It's a collection of songs and stories about friends and family. With levity, grit and grief we're pulled into human connections stronger than the ding of a phone notification. They burst with rock and soul and the western charm that has become the band's trademark sound.

That was proven when they were named Roots Artist of the Year at the 2018 Edmonton Music Awards, the capper to a full summer of folk and indie music festivals. Whether they're packing dance floors in honky tonks or in rock clubs soaked in wine and whiskey, Ayla Brook & The Sound Men deliver a tapestry of hurtin' and feelin' tunes about life on and off Canada's barstools.

Singer/songwriter Jessica Heine threads gossamer cords between all she has lost, finding regrowth, born in the aftermath.

Singer/songwriter Jessica Heine's dynamic voice shakes rooms. Yet on her third album, ''Goodbye Party'', her power is tampered by loss. With new fragility, she opens up about her personal grief, threading gossamer cords between her painful divorce, the untimely death of her nephew, the loss of her grandmother and the regrowth born in the aftermath of these losses.

Amongst the songs, dreams are celebrated and mourned. Dreams of the future float away and new dreams surface in their place.

Her own guitar work is primarily supported by a full band consisting of piano, mandolin, bass and drums and on the title track, ''Goodbye Party,'' textured backing vocals offer a hand to their sinking friend.

Heine's voice may not quake the room in ''Goodbye Party,'' but she harnesses powers that shake the soul much deeper. You're left seeing the buds of new life poking through the ashes scattered on the ground, knowing that they, like these songs, will bloom beautifully.

Produced by Peter Stone of 100 mile house.

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