Just this week, Rough Trade Records released the first mp3, “Gold Rush,” from the forthcoming album from Basia Bulat. The album, entitled Heart Of My Own, the album will be in stores on January 26, 2010. This album is the follow up to 2007’s Oh, My Darling which generated a groundswell of support from both the press and fans alike. Ever since I first saw Basia open for DeVotchKa last year, I fell in love and still listen to Oh, My Darling in its entirety several times a week. The record’s opener “Before I Knew” is my alarm clock, a very peaceful and beautiful song that you don’t mind waking you up at 6AM — and then over and over again as you keep hitting snooze.
Heart of My Own was recorded with Howard Bilerman (who was at control panel for Oh, My Darling as well) and nearly all the songs were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. If “Gold Rush” is just mere insight to the rest of Heart of My Own, I’ve already found my new favorite record of 2010.
Head over to Billions to check out the album art for Heart of My Own.
Basia has confirmed a pre-release show on October 7 at The Bellhouse in Brooklyn, New York. Samuel Izdat is confirmed as the support and The National’s Scott Devendorf will be DJing. Tickets are on sale now.
Tracklisting:
01. Go On
02. Run
03. Sugar and Spice
04. Gold Rush
05. Heart Of My Own
06. Sparrow
07. If Only You
08. I’m Forgetting Everyone
09. The Shore
10. Once More, For The Dollhouse
11. Walk You Down
12. If It Rains
Basia Bulat: website | myspace | @ tin angel
