NQ Arbuckle announces Love Songs For The Long Game, a new album out May 19, 2023. To introduce the collection, the two-time JUNO Award nominees share a new song “No Hands Bicycle,” today. In more Spring news, NQ Arbuckle joins Whitehorse’s tour with shows across Ontario in May-June, 2023.

The album’s title track was first released in April 2020 in response to the circumstances. As it turned out, the long game hadn’t even started yet; it was only the beginning. An evergreen ode to sticking together through thick and thin, the song remains a potent balm for navigating uncertainties large and small. From this vantage the title bears out, landing somewhere between an astute mantra for the times and self-fulfilling prophecy.

New song “No Hands Bicycle” is a fitting reminder that it’s never too late to pick up where you left off. A commitment to perseverance, “No Hands Bicycle” opts to keep on swimming against the tide. What other choice is there?

Listen to “No Hands Bicycle” and “Love Songs For The Long Game” here.

On this fifth album, NQ Arbuckle reunites with Luke Doucet, who produced the now-classic Six Shooter Records debut. Reassuringly familiar, if a little bit flashier, the album’s blend of roots rock with new additions of banjo and synths find NQ Arbuckle in fine form. Not fully nostalgic, not simply regretful, Love Songs For The Long Game is for those who seek balance between constancy and recklessness, between last call and first light.

Love Songs For The Long Game arrives May 19, 2023 on Six Shooter Records.

TRACK LIST

1. No Hands Bicycle
2. Wicked Thing
3. Alabama All Nighters
4. Love Songs For The Long Game
5. All Apologies
6. Dress That You Met Me In
7. Funny Bone
8. Seven Year Itch
9. No One Dances To The Words
10. Sad Songs

PRIVATE MEDIA PREVIEW HERE
Download password available upon request.

TOUR DATES

SARNIA, ON: Imperial Theatre, May 18*
HIGHGATE, ON: Mary Webb Centre, May 19*
MEAFORD, ON: Meaford Hall, May 24*
LONDON, ON: Aeolian Hall, May 25*
GUELPH, ON: Royal City Church, May 26*
HAMILTON, ON: Bridgeworks, May 27*
PETERBOROUGH, ON: Market Hall, May 28*
RIDGEWAY, ON: The Sanctuary, May 31*
PARIS, ON: DT Concert Series, June 1*
KINGSTON, ON: Blu Martini, June 2*
OTTAWA, ON: NAC, June 3*
PARRY SOUND, ON: Stockey Centre, June 4*
TORONTO, ON: TD Music Hall, June 15* + 16* *w/ Whitehorse

Tickets and show details here.

ABOUT NQ ARBUCKLE

NQ Arbuckle is the songwriter and namesake of a twice JUNO Award nominated Toronto band. His 2002 Six Shooter cult classic debut Hanging The Battle-Scarred Pinata, produced by Luke Doucet, launched a fervent fanbase devoted to shouting his lyrics back at him, an impressive collection of paper news clippings, and a sporadic touring career in which NQ Arbuckle careened from Italy to Northern Alberta, Huntsville to Nashville.

On Love Songs For The Long Game, Doucet returns as producer. Recorded at The Bathouse in Kingston, ON and mixed by Howie Beck, new music also features original members of NQ Arbuckle band Peter Kesper and Mark Kesper, and superlative keyboard player Robbie Grunwald.