Young Galaxy gets remixed by Peaking Lights

Last week, Young Galaxy unleashed the first single from their new Dan Lissvik-produced album, Ultramarine.

Ultramarine is the name and colour of Young Galaxy’s fourth LP, the first album they have made away from Montreal, across the sea, all together. Like 2011’s Shapeshifting, Ultramarine was made with electronic producer Dan Lissvik (Studio); but this time it was made in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Lissvik’s studio; this time five musicians stood in a room with Lissvik, playing their instruments; this time every song was sung by co-founder Catherine McCandless. Ultramarine will be released by Paper Bag Records on April 23rd.

“In being away from home we felt like we could risk more,” McCandless says. “Take bigger chances. Things we didn’t think would work, we tried anyway.” Whereas Shapeshifting was compartmentalized – songs recorded in Montreal, sent to Lissvik to transmute – Ultramarine came to Gothenburg as a live work, the sum of a performing band’s blood and sweat.

“Pretty Boy”

(Paper Bag Records)

Available digitally February 5, 2013

1. Pretty Boy

2. Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)

Ultramarine

(Paper Bag Records)

Street Date: April 23, 2013

1. Pretty Boy

2. Fall For You

3. New Summer

4. Fever