Flemish Eye has announced a new collaboration between two artists: a limited-edition split 7” featuring Halifax-based Mauno and Saskatoon’s The Avulsions. The 7” will be strictly limited to only 300 copies and primarily available on the merch table as both bands go on tour over the spring, including dates next week at The Great Escape in Brighton, UK.

The 7” record features a song from each artist, each one complemented by an illustration by Chad VanGaalen. Some limited copies will be available in the Flemish Eye shop and in select retailers — but mostly you will have to grab one of these from the bands when you see them on tour over the next month!

Saskatoon, Canada-based band The Avulsions are centred around the songwriting of vocalist, guitarist, and synth player Samantha Renner — who draws inspiration from an extensive background in classical music and a deep reverence for classic noir-pop groups like The Cure and Martin Hannett-era Factory Records acts — The Avulsions envelop her tunes in darkly lush, intricately ornamented arrangements, betraying a superb collective attention to detail and subtlety.

Nova Scotia’s Mauno has been working relentlessly at bringing their unique pop rock to as many ears as possible. Driven by the collective boredom, excitement and curiosity of its 4 members (Eliza Niemi, Nick Everett, Adam White, Scott Boudreau), they take their various backgrounds in classical, folk, and math-rock and turn it into something unpredictable and new. Mauno plan a full length album on Idée Fixe in fall 2017.

The Avulsions on Tour:

May 19 – Brighton, UK – The Great Escape
May 20 – Brighton, UK – The Great Escape
May 22 – Paris, FR – POPIN
May 23 – London, UK – Old Blue Last
May 26 – Oxford, UK – The Library
May 29 – London, UK – Sebright Arms
June 23 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival

Mauno on Tour:

May 12 – Wrexham, Wales – Focus Wales Music Festival
May 17 – London, UK – Shacklewell Arms
May 19 – Brighton, UK – The Great Escape
May 22 – Nottingham, UK – Bodega Social Club *
May 23 – Leicester, UK – Musician *
May 24 – Cambridge, UK – The Junction 2 *
May 25 – Coventry, UK – The Shop Front Theatre *
May 26 – Preston, UK – Continental *
May 27 – Reading, UK – South Street Arts *
May 28 – London, UK – Courtyard Festival, King’s Cross
June 1 – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub
June 15 – Thunder Bay, ON – The Foundry
June 16 – Winnipeg, MB – The Handsome Daughter
June 17 – Saskatoon, SK – The Capitol
June 20 – Edmonton, AB – The Buckingham
June 22-23 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island
June 24 – Nelson, BC – Little Destroyer
June 25 – Vancouver, BC – The Astoria
June 27 – Kelowna, BC – Fernando’s
June 28 – Rossland, BC – Flying Steamshovel
June 29 – Lethbridge, AB – The Owl
June 30 – Regina, SK – The Artful Dodger
July 4 – Sarnia, ON – Refined Fool Brewing Co.
July 5 – Toronto, ON – Baby G
July 6 – Guelph, ON – TBD
July 7 – Ottawa, ON – Bar Robo
July 8 – Montreal, QC – Casa del Popolo

*w. Laetitia Sadier