Call it Prairie Noir or Canadiana Desert Rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs. The Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist returns with More Songs About Love, the extended companion to her JUNO-nominated 2024 album Anniversary. An evocative collection of original love songs, Anniversary was produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker and 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 few spellbinding duets.
Balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, More Songs About Love adds eight new stripped-down tracks to the collection, including delicate acoustic versions of Anniversary’s standout tracks; a captivating French translation of crowd favourite “Rattlesnake”; and Lapell’s unique take on a handful of classics, including her impassioned version of “Feels Like We Always Go Backwards” by Tame Impala, performed on distorted electric guitar with urgent vocals. Combining cynical and sentimental elements, the collection ultimately emerges as an earnest celebration of love.
Over the past six years, Lapell has garnered three Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 50 million + streams across digital music platforms. She tours widely across North America, Europe and the UK, performing on vocals, piano, harmonica and signature finger-style guitar.
Anniversary & More Songs About Love is out May 3, 2025 on Outside Music.