As Canon Blue prepares for the October 6th release of his new album Lasso Yo on Temporary Residence, he is sharing the latest single from the upcoming album. “Onyx” is out today on all music services and can be heard below.
About the song, Canon Blue’s Daniel James says, “‘Onyx’ is an attempt to explore the ways in which we are forced to hold sacred and vast unspeakable things alongside the trivial and the everyday. How we try to create meaning in our daily lives in an effort to add some distance between us and the great lasso that finds us all in the end.”
The album is avaiable to pre-order now at Canon Blue’s website.
Lasso Yo is the third full-length from Canon Blue, the alter ego of Nashville producer-songwriter, Daniel James. It’s been over a half-decade since Canon Blue’s previous album, the Efterklang and Amiina-augmented orchestral pop opus, Rumspringa. Six years can feel like a lifetime, and James knows that all too well, and he tells the whole story on Lasso Yo.
Conceived during increasingly long periods of isolation caused by increasingly intense bouts of anxiety and depression, Lasso Yo weaves those difficult personal struggles into a lyrically earnest and musically rich collection of songs. Produced, performed, and recorded by James at Taylor York’s(Paramore) house, and mixed by John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Yo La Tengo, The Sea and Cake), this is not only Canon Blue’s most personal record, but also his most profound.
For what was undoubtedly a challenging, cathartic record to make, Lasso Yo achieves a kind of weightlessness that betrays the heavy load it carries. It’s this dichotomy that gives the album a curious magic, an unlikely transcendence spawned by an uncomfortable confrontation between James’ past and present, and the new shape it gives his future.