TESS PARKS // KOALAS (VIDEO) POMEGRANATE (ALBUM ANNOUNCE) EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE, OUR CULTURE, BIZZARRE, LE CANAL AUDITIF, BROOKLYN VEGAN, MINDIES, FAR OUT MAGAZINE, THE LINE OF BEST FIT, UNDER THE RADAR, CBC, SIRIUS XM, CLASH, STEREOGUM, ROLLING STONE
Canada-born, London-based singer/songwriter TESS PARKS is today announcing her third solo album, ‘Pomegranate’, and sharing the lead single and video ‘Koalas’. Out October 25th via Fuzz Club worldwide and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada, ‘Pomegranate’ is the follow-up to her long-awaited solo return with ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’, which arrived in 2022 to critical acclaim following a string of collaborative albums with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe.
Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, ‘Pomegranate’ finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire). New single ‘Koalas’ is a piece of beautifully hazy, slow-burning psych-folk with Parks’ smoky vocals floating over feathery acoustic guitar and piano, and some spellbinding whistling courtesy of Molly Lewis.
On the new single, Parks says: “In November 2020, Ruari was in London and I was in Toronto and he sent me the music for ‘Koalas’. At this point, we hadn’t seen each other in over a year. It would be another year before we saw each other again. I was suffering from severe PTSD at this point in my life, and to be honest, I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the song properly until early February. When I finally did – it was one of those moments when you hear a song and you know it’s going to be one of your favourite, most cherished songs for your whole life. It’s the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard.”
She adds: “Ruari sending me this song instigated the making of this album – a daily back and forth correspondence where he would send me music and I would sing some words over it and then he would sing other ideas back to me. It was a true lifeline at what felt like the end of the world. I don’t know who I would be without these songs, this song particularly, and waking up everyday looking forward to what he was going to send me next.”
“SON DU JOUR: La chanteuse Tess Parks vous emmène dans son univers mystérieux et intrigant” – ROLLING STONE
“une excellente pièce psych folk feutrée où sa voix se dépose sur cette composition volante et langoureuse” – LE CANAL AUDITIF
“A beautiful piece of songwriting, Tess Parks’ understated vocal puts you in mind of Cat Power or Hope Sandeval, but with a character of her own.” – CLASH
“Tess Parks announces third solo album, Pomegranate” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“Tess Parks announces new album LP Pomegranate” – BIZZARRE
“Tess Parks desafía el silencio con su nuevo álbum” – MINDIES
“Tess Parks announces new album, shares “Koalas” ft Molly Lewis” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“Tess Parks Announces New Album and Shares Lead Single Koalas” – UNDER THE RADAR
“12 Best Songs of the Week” – UNDER THE RADAR
“a signature dusky lilt atop a downy layer of keys and guitar” – EXCLAIM!
“The Big Indie Playlist: The best new music of the week – Instant Classics” – FAR OUT MAGAZINE
“Tess Parks announces new album ‘Pomegranate’ — hear the breezy lead single Koalas” – STEREOGUM
“bask in the ageless and amber glow of mysterious Koalas” – THE AUTUMN ROSES
“Big City Small World with Errol Nazareth” – 99.1FM CBC RADIO ONE
“Afterdark with Odario Williams” – CBC MUSIC
“a smokey voice, beyond smokiness. I love it … a beautiful song” – SIMON LE BON / WHOOOSH RADIO
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