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releases June 7, 2024

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1.	The Cord 03:24	lyrics
I feel the cord has finally broken / Tangled up in my fingers I / Swallow all of my love / I don’t know where it’s gone / I don’t know what to call myself, anymore / I am searching for all of the answers you couldn’t let go / You keep it all hid / Step after step / You erased my world / You keep it all hid / Piece after piece/ You erased my soul / I feel the emptiness has finally taken you in / Spinning into eternity you / Define the vast barren land / I don’t know where you’ve gone / I don’t know what to call myself, anymore / I am longing for all of the truth / You just wouldn’t unfold / You keep it all hid / Step after step / You erased my world / Piece after piece / You erased my soul
2.	Feathers
3.	Freewheel
4.	Sufferer
5.	Tight To You
6.	This House
7.	Are You Still Here? 03:34	lyrics
Are you still here / Or are you there yet? / Waiting for a sign / Waiting for a sing / For me to see / Waiting for a sign / Waiting for a sign / From you to me / Your love surrounds me all the time / Don’t leave me lonely / I’m your child / Are you still here / Or are you there yet? / Waiting for a sign / Waiting for a sing / For me to see / Waiting for a sign / Waiting for a sign / From you to me / Your love surrounds me all the time / Don’t leave me lonely / I’m your child / Don’t leave me lonely / I need you around / Don’t leave me lonely / For all time
8.	Big Lagoons
9.	A Dream That Can Last
10.	Broken Hearted
11.	The Ocean

about

“Everything felt different,” says Joana Serrat. Big Wave, the sixth full-length release from the Catalan singer-songwriter, strides boldly in a new direction, its songs charged with a fresh power — precipitated by changes in her personal life.

On her previous albums, particularly Hardcore From The Heart and Dripping Springs, Joana’s music engages in a tug-of-war between fragility and intensity, a dynamic that has caught the attention of major publications such as Mojo, Uncut, N.M.E. and The Guardian, as well as Lauren Laverne, Guy Garvey and Gideon Coe on their BBC 6 Music show. Her songs have been described as “torrents of familiar heartache made startling and luminous”.

Big Wave retains her characteristic use of reverb and pop melody, but is tighter, fiercer, shrouded in distortion. An emotional and sonic ferocity because “I wanted to be more aggressive,” Joana explains. “Because I was going through a period where I was feeling very uncomfortable.”

Big Wave was recorded at The Echo Lab studio over two weeks in April 2022, in Texas, familiar territory geographically — she made her previous two albums there — but with a new producer and mixer on board: Matt Pence (Jason Isbell, John Grant). His fresh outlook led to fresh ways of working — like starting with a cappella demos, to which he added drums, and then a harmoniser, instruments that supply the album with much of its force. Also on board was co-producer and longtime collaborator Joey McClellan (Midlake, Rufus Wainwright, John Grant), McKenzie Smith (St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten) and several of Joana’s Midlake and Mercury Rev friends.

That collective spirit and spontaneity shaped the album. It was during one of the first songs they recorded Feathers, that the idea of using a bass moog came about via Scott Lee (The Texas Gentlemen, Kirby Brown, Josh T Pearson). “I thought, that’s the direction of the album. That was a moment of enlightenment.” A Dream That Can Last features a single acoustic guitar that, thanks to the harmoniser, sounds like an entire orchestra. And on the Björk-like ballad This House — written about the house where Joana currently lives, in a small village in the mountains of Northern Catalonia — Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake, Beth Orton) used the harmoniser on the sounds of strings of an open piano to create a song that holds you tight in its grip. “You feel like the house is actually burning.”

Her own teenage odysseys into the reverb-heavy 1990s sounds of indie-rock, dream-pop and noise-rock are particularly felt on the second half of Big Wave, which contains more “classic Joana stuff”. But the contemporary, experimental elements that dominate side A emerge from elsewhere: the sonic and lyrical content of Low’s Hey What, and the deep, dark textures of Oneohtrix Point Never.

credits

releases June 7, 2024

All songs written by Joana Serrat

Produced by Matt Pence
Coproduced by Joey McClellan
Engineered and Mixed by Matt Pence
Assistant Engineer: Nathan Walters
Mastered by Jessica Thompson

Recorded in Texas at The Echo Lab and Redwood studios during April 2022

Cover photo: Joana Serrat
Inside photo: Josep Echaburu
Design: El Señor Gómez

This album is dedicated to the loving memory of Rosa Gallart Gavaldà and Josep Tarré Mateo, my grandparents.

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GREAT CANYON is a Record Label and Management, PR and Booking agency based in Vic (Barcelona)

We work with Joana Serrat, CARLA, Boria, Marta Delmont, Marta Pérez, Matthew McDaid, Murdoc, Nyandú, Riders Of The Canyon, Roger Usart and Wide Valley. ... more

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