The moody, offbeat first single “Power” is available now and features a guest appearance from Peter Dreimanis of July Talk on background vocals and piano. Listen to “Power” HERE. A beautiful and haunting video for the single directed by Guadalajara-based filmmaker Fernando Castanier is also available to watch HERE.
Says Eamon to PGA about the LP, “As the 2017 Sappyfest songwriter in residence I assigned myself the task of creating a musical instrument out of a city: utilizing its geography, stories, people, buildings, ghosts, sounds, feelings, textures and spaces as a kind of squeezebox that made an inescapable and unarguable imprint on the recordings that were constructed there. ‘Tantramar’ was and could have only been created in Sackville, New Brunswick, it is as much a photograph of a time and place in both my life and the life of the town where it was taken as it is an auditory document of my time spent within it for the time I was there.”
Not only do the literal sounds of Sackville make their way onto the recordings—the family of raccoons that lives under the ruins of George’s Roadhouse scurrying beneath the floor, the sound of the train as its whistles blow through town, and the sound of a late-night guerrilla recording session within the long-abandoned and condemned Sackville Music Hall—but McGrath also enlisted help from some of his ongoing collaborators including Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis from July Talk, Jose Contreras from By Divine Right, and Jaye R. Schwarzer from Cancer Bats and Julie & The Wrong Guys.
TANTRAMAR Tracklisting
- Chlorine
- Power
- This Town Dies When Festival Season Ends
- Just Kids
- Vancouver Bound
- Wild Dogs Revisited
- Never Enough
- The World Is A Cold Dark Place
- Your Famous Ex-Lover
Eamon is currently in the midst of a Canadian tour following a wildly successful European Spring tour
