Elliott BROOD Announce Town & Country

New Two-Album Cycle Begins with Town, Out Nov 3, 2023

Listen to “Rose City,” an Ode to Windsor, ON, Here

Photo credit: Dustin Seabrook

With a familiar 1, 2, 3, 4...Elliott BROOD count in a new album cycle, Town & Country, that explores the people and places that shape our lives, wherever we call home. On part one, Town, Elliott BROOD rumble and rock over a map of all the towns and cities that are home to our experiences and imaginations, histories and future plans.

In true Elliott BROOD fashion, Town begins with “Rose City,” out today. While Windsor, ON doesn’t compete with the likes of Asbury Park or Butcher Hollow for the most famous hometown in music history, its bridges and bars have inspired some of Elliott BROOD’s most beloved songs and albums. With its deep late summer porch party and rolling rodeo rhythm, “Rose City” continues this fascination and tradition. A song is always the fastest way home.

“My northern heart is drying up down south,” goes the line in “Dried Up,” which encapsulates the collection’s through-line in its ongoing search for the right place at the right time. Cross-border life, as actual geography and as metaphor for the walls we run up against, has always been a source of frustration and inspiration. In search of a place where Cash is still King on the pedal-steel country waltz of “Paper Money,” a Canadian expat sits down in a bar in Hollywood to find his money’s no good.

Dressed in the hand-embroidered suits that bear the symbols of each of these two realms, Town & Country, Elliott BROOD hit the road once again with their brand of nitty gritty city folk. Over bridges and into barrooms, lose your way to find yourself in Elliott BROOD’s Town.

Town will be released on November 3, 2023 on Six Shooter Records. Pre-Order Town here.

TOWN Track List:
1. Rose City
2. Dark End of the Road
3. Paper Money
4. Evelyn
5. Stars Align
6. Dried Up
7. Rise Up With Fists
8. Sinking Stone

ADVANCE MEDIA PREVIEW here.
Physical copies available upon request.

ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE TOUR DATES:

Regina, SK: The Exchange, Sept 26*
Calgary, AB: Dickens, Sept 27*
Lake Country, BC: Creekside Theatre, Sept 28*
Victoria, BC: Capital Ballroom, Sept 29*
Errington, BC: Errington Hall, Sept 30*
Pender Island, BC: Pender Island Community Hall, Oct 1*
Cumberland, BC: The Waverley, Oct 4*
Vancouver, BC: Biltmore Cabaret, Oct 6*
Squamish, BC: One and a Half Ave, Oct 7*
Oliver, BC: Venables Theatre, Oct 8*
Nelson, BC: Spiritbar, Oct 10*
Fernie, BC: Fernie Community Centre, Oct 11*
Edmonton, AB: Starlite Room, Oct 12*
Banff, AB: Melissa’s MisSteak, Oct 13*
Golden, BC: Rockwater Bar & Grill, Oct 14*

*w/ Shred Kelly

ABOUT ELLIOTT BROOD

“Doing it the hard way for 20 years,” is a badge Elliott BROOD wear with honour. Two decades on, work, life and love have taken the trio in many directions, away from their hometowns and headfirst into an ongoing musical journey through distance and time. Now, Elliott BROOD is never more at home than in the wash of distorted, evocative strings and stomps that make their signature alt country sound.

Elliott BROOD appeared on the cover of Exclaim Magazine in 2008 as the new ambassadors of a roots, folk rock and alt country wave that flourished in Toronto’s early aughts. The band’s arrival came with a level of buzz that launched them directly into the heart of a vibrant Toronto scene that centered at label Six Shooter Records, where they have returned to release their newest music. Their live show, a maelstrom of frenetic energy and fuzz, has brought them back and forth across continents countless times on bills The Sadies, Wilco, The Black Crowes, and many more. Their albums, meticulously crafted, detail-packed collections, have brought some of Canada’s highest musical honours and awards, including a Polaris Music Prize Short List and a JUNO Award.

In their twenty years, the band has remained fiercely loyal to their mysterious namesake. The stylized, imaginary character has guided the band’s travels over mountains and meadows, and through the more harrowing sides of history. Elliott BROOD has grown into a vessel for the trio’s shared history too, with new songs finding connection and communion in themes that hit much closer to home. Forthcoming album Town is awash in a new type of nostalgia for Elliott BROOD. With smile lines and guitar fingers long hardened with callouses, Elliott BROOD has been doing it the hard way, but making it sound easy.

For more information, please contact:
Emily Smart
Six Shooter Records
emilysmart@sixshooterrecords.com