Sonically and emotionally charged, The Seashores’ ‘Blame My Ex’ is a daring, brazen, and breathtaking album spanning our lowest lows and our highest highs. Out of internal reckoning and reeling, pressure and turmoil, the Canadian rock band create a hovering, cinematic world wherein empowerment and liberation reign supreme.

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‘Blame My Ex’ is a breakup file… We talk about grief, loneliness, anxiousness, redemption, and discovering your self once more after enduring a world of ache.

The Seashores waste no time entering into it on their sophomore album.

“Finished being the unhappy woman – I’m carried out relationship rockstars,” lead vocalist and bassist Jordan Miller sings scorching on the mic, her voice a lightning rod of feverish emotion as guitars swell and drums churn throughout her. “I’ll turn into an asshole disguised as a nasty woman, in my button-up shirt, a pure catastrophe.” The heartache is contemporary, however the fireplace inside is stronger – and from the second Blame My Ex begins, The Seashores make it identified that their breakup file isn’t going to wallow in self-pity – and certainly, you gained’t discover any cries for assist or woe is me’s throughout these ten songs.

Out of internal reckoning and reeling, pressure and turmoil, the Canadian rock band create a hovering, cinematic world wherein empowerment and liberation reign supreme. They lean into life’s rawest feelings, channeling turbulence into catharsis with unfiltered vitality, gorgeous ardour, and unapologetic alt-rock grace. The result’s a deeply human assortment of songs that ache, energize, uplift, and encourage: Sonically and emotionally charged, Blame My Ex is a daring, brazen, and breathtaking album spanning our lowest lows and our highest highs.

Merely put, it’s The Seashores at their finest.

That’s why I gained’t get susceptible
Don’t you dare get snug
Heartbreak is unattainable
Emotions doing somersaults

I’m not prepared for remedy
To take accountability
Proper now it’s about me
Me and solely ‘bout me

– “Blame Brett,” The Seashores

Launched September 15, 2023 by way of AWAL, Blame My Ex is a spellbinding return from certainly one of Toronto’s premier indie/alt-rock bands. Named after the neighborhood three out of their 4 members up in, The Seashores launched themselves ten years in the past as a band devoted to high-octane performances, the place spirited vocals and scorching guitars roar in tandem.

The previous decade has seen the four-piece of lead vocalist/bassist Jordan Miller, guitarist Kylie Miller, keyboardist/guitarist Leandra Earl, and drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel hone their craft and their picture, signal with, launch music on, and go away a serious label, and tour extensively all through North America.

It seems like every part’s been main up up to now, the place the band of longtime finest buddies independently launched their most assured, composed, and confident file to this point – one which sees them brazenly and willfully spilling their guts whereas driving a roller-coaster of sonic wonders and intimate emotions. As susceptible as it’s vivid, Blame My Ex holds nothing again as The Seashores plunder their hearts, expose their scars, and have a tendency to emotional wounds which can be nonetheless bleeding – and it’s that real-time depth that makes these songs hit as arduous as they do.

“Blame My Ex is a breakup file in regards to the experiences I had after my relationship ended,” The Seashores’ keyboardist and guitarist Leandra Earl tells Atwood Journal. “We talk about grief, loneliness, anxiousness, redemption, and discovering your self once more after enduring a world of ache.”

Arriving six years after their debut LP Late Present – written and recorded when the band have been all of their late teenagers and early twenties – Blame My Ex marks a hanging evolution for The Seashores, who final launched the EP Future Lovers in 2021.

“We began writing [this] file a couple of yr and a half in the past, and all we knew we wished to do was to make one thing that felt totally different from our earlier albums,” Earl explains. “About 5 months into writing our file my relationship ended, and that type of shifted the trajectory of the songs we have been writing.”

“We’ve gone via some vital modifications since our final launch,” she provides. “COVID, a change in administration, and we’ve additionally turn into impartial. I believe many of those elements, in addition to us simply rising up a bit, play a component in why I really feel we’ve matured as musicians. I believe that’s the actual distinction from then to now. This file, whereas nonetheless sounding enjoyable and Seashores, is much more earnest and grounded than something we’ve beforehand launched.”

Earl smiles as she describes Blame My Ex as a “unhappy girly triumph.”

Many of those songs got here from a spot of ache and hardship, however by embracing and never rejecting these emotions, she and her bandmates have basically turned them on their heads.

She laughs in explaining that the album is titled Blame My Ex as a result of “I didn’t wish to name the entire album Blame Brett.”

Since its launch in Might of this yr, the title observe has exploded in reputation on-line, garnering almost 15 tens of millions streams on Spotify alone. “We’re so humbled by the success that “Blame Brett” has had on-line,” Earl says. “We actually tried to place our greatest foot ahead when writing these new songs. And we really feel that this file will actually introduce us to a brand new set of followers, and that there’s one thing for everybody on the album.”

“Blame Brett” proves a strong and immediately memorable opener for an album stuffed with irresistible anthems and spellbinding pop- and punk-fused power-ballads.

From the rousing, uncooked singalong “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Paranoid” and the rip-roaring, beachy “Me & Me” – a really breathtaking tune in all the most effective methods – to the visceral upheaval “Every thing Is Boring,” the intimate, introspective, and uncovered “Bathe Beer,” and extra, Blame My Ex is as unrelentingly enjoyable because it is filled with feeling.

“Bathe Beer,” written pre-breakup, has a few of Earl’s private favourite lyrics: “Alphabet Soup spelt you’re a idiot however I nonetheless ate all of it the identical.”

In the meantime, she says her two favourite songs are those that finish the file – the deeply susceptible, heart-on-sleeve “If A Tree Falls” and the supercharged “Cigarette.”

“‘If A Tree Falls’ is, for my part, the guts of the file, and is in regards to the devastation I felt after my relationship got here to an finish,” Earl explains. “‘Cigarette’ is a tune a couple of actually cool skateboarding chick I met, who was my first crush after my relationship ended. It’s a euphoric second for me to get to in an album the place I type of talk about so many unhappy experiences.”

Hiding in your hoodie, pulling on its strings
Haven’t took it off because you instructed me every part
God I want that you simply didn’t
Needed to take a knife and open up the lower
Silver within the gentle, watch it tear me up
I’ll bleed out any minute

I may look the opposite method once more
Trigger I realized from the most effective the way to play fake

If a tree falls, I don’t wish to hear it
‘Trigger if I don’t know
I don’t must really feel it
If I don’t see it happening
Then why can’t I simply block it out
Watching you fall and I used to be nowhere close to it
However I heard it and I hate it

From painful reckonings to radiant redemptions, Blame My Ex is a breakup album not like any breakup album you’ve heard earlier than.

“I hope it helps anybody who’s experiencing heartbreak know that they don’t seem to be alone, and that after they trek via the ache and the heartbreak there’s a gentle on the finish of the tunnel,” Earl shares. “That’s what penning this file and sharing it with folks has helped me to find.”

Expertise the total file by way of our under stream, and peek inside The Seashores’ Blame My Ex with Atwood Journal as Jordan Miller, Kylie Miller, Leandra Earl, and Eliza Enman-McDaniel take us track-by-track via the music and lyrics of their sophomore studio album!

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Blame Brett 

“Blame Brett” is a tune with slightly little bit of a deceptive title. It’s probably not about my relationship. It’s about feeling susceptible and afraid to open your coronary heart to somebody new. I’m principally speaking to my future companions explaining that I can solely supply one thing informal whereas my coronary heart heals. A tune for all the new messes on the market.

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Paranoid

“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Paranoid” is a tune about feeling intense anxiousness after a breakup. This had been my expertise when my relationship had simply ended. I wasn’t used to being by myself, so I discovered myself feeling actually insecure in social conditions – which was actually surreal as a result of I’m normally very assured and self assured. The extra folks I’ve proven this tune to nevertheless, the extra I’ve come to know that is actually how most individuals really feel after a breakup.

Me & Me

“Me and Me” explores falling again in love with your self after a breakup. It’s about having the ability to take a step again, attending to know your self and embracing being a single woman. It’s impressed by an episode of Intercourse and the Metropolis, which actually helped Jordan via her breakup.

Every thing is Boring

Every thing is boring is a tune about feeling over the mundanity of standard life, and simply searching for out distraction and thrills. Particularly for a touring musician, I believe we undergo these durations fairly ceaselessly.

My Physique ft. Your Lips (with Seashore Climate)

This tune is pure unadulterated intercourse. After a relationship ends, generally you don’t wish to be in love with somebody once more for some time, generally you simply wish to be underneath somebody for some time. We have been so happy to get our boys Seashore Climate on this one. They completely nailed the vibe with their verse.

Kismet

“Kismet” has all the time been certainly one of my favorite phrases, and I’ve all the time wished to put in writing a tune about it. It’s a synonym for future or destiny. This one is about operating into an individual who you will have a crush on over and over. I believe it’s probably the most enjoyable tune on our file.

Bathe Beer

“Bathe Beer” was the primary tune that we wrote for this file, and it was written pre-breakup. Actually, we modified the lyrics within the bridge submit breakup from “Brett are you able to wash my hair” to “Babe are you able to wash my hair.” It’s a tune about feeling misplaced and partying an excessive amount of. I nonetheless surprise if I used to be attempting to inform myself one thing with this one.

Fringe of the Earth

As a band we felt that it was actually necessary that we lastly wrote a tune a couple of queer relationship. Two of us are queer and we hadn’t written in regards to the topic on any of our different data. Fringe of the Earth is a stupendous tune about Leandra’s relationship along with her girlfriend. It’s a tune a couple of messy and fiery and intense love. This is without doubt one of the songs that we wrote with Karah James from Valley, and you’ll inform as a result of it’s SO catchy.

If A Tree Falls

“If A Tree Falls” was the primary tune I wrote about my breakup. I used to be truthfully so devastated on the time, and penning this tune helped me unpack my unhappiness. It’s a tune about being let down by somebody you’re keen on, and desperately attempting to look the opposite method. I don’t suppose there could be a “Blame My Ex” with out this tune, for me it’s the guts of the album.

Cigarette

I wrote this tune a couple of attractive feminine skateboarder who I met at a celebration. She got here as much as me and requested if I preferred the movie “CARS” and I used to be truthfully simply very stoked on her.

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