The Great Unknown hit Number 3 this week on CKUA!! What the heck!! Thank you so much for all the spins and support @ckuaradio 💙 we are all so lucky to have you!
(First pic is by the lovely @brizsa at the single release party for The Ceiling back in the fall, which was hosted at CKUA’s beautiful Beresh Arts Den event space)
Dreams are real!! “The Great Unknown” has been added to rotation on CBC, and it’s in the running for Top 20!! This is seriously so cool, and I very much appreciate all the support you’ve been giving to the singles thus far, and now to the album right out of the gate. Couldn’t do this without you!
Vote at the link in my bioooo!
💚 Pro Tip: Make music you Love, with People you Love.
🧚♀️ Wliwni @noellefrancesmusic@hillarywatsonmusic@reneecoughlincreating for lending your voices to ‘Better than Before’. We Love ya!
🏡 When your best friends come to play in your Studio, you know it’s going to be a great day! (swipe for vibes)
🎪 We can’t wait to all be reunited at @hillsidefestival
Gear up, Guelph! This Gnome gang is coming for you.
🧚♀️ The Universe gives you challenges because it belives that you are strong enough to handle it.
☀️ For the first time in my life, I didn't know if I was hardy enough to keep going. It would have been so much easier to walk away and become a full-time garden gnome, but the hard things make us stronger. I love making music too much to turn back now.
I was seeing everything from underwater for a while, and now I can finally feel the wind. What felt like it was breaking me was actually helping me grow. I see myself more clearly now, better than ever.
🎥 Captured on Lake Huron you can see full video on Youtube.
Hello my friends! My sophomore album, The Great Unknown, is finally all yours.
Releasing an album feels a bit like offering a piece of my soul, but I am offering it to you with nothing but joy and gratitude. This project has enveloped my life for the past several years, and I can’t wait for you to listen.
As the colourful cacophony of the Turpentine album cycle wound down, I found myself starting with a blank canvas for The Great Unknown. While my first album was a collage of relationships from my young adulthood, this time I found myself drawn to exploring a central theme: the turning points that we face in our lives, or the watershed moments where a single decision can change us irrevocably. As I moved through a period of intense change and growing pains in my early twenties, I found myself drawn to creating a more ragged and organic sound that reflected this period of self-questioning. The Great Unknown emerged from the depths as an acknowledgement of existential dread, interpersonal conflict, and the crisis of our planet, while learning how to embrace the messy beauty of growing through it all.
I am so proud of this body of work, and am endlessly grateful to my amazing collaborators for pouring so much of themselves into bringing it to life in all of its multidimensional glory!
Happy listening.
Xo
Kaeley Jade
Mega thanks @thepatrickbatemanshow and @siriusxmcanada for adding “Never Come Home Again” to North Americana 🌻 this my first time being added to rotation on this channel and I’m freakin pumped :’) tune in!
🧚♀️ ”This life is just a dream”.
When I was young and living in Toronto, playing for tips at The Local and working as hard as I could on my songwriting, I always dreamed to have one of my songs play on Indie88!
📻 Thank you @indie88toronto & @imadamtr for spinning my new single “Pass the Time” on the Weekend Cafe. ☕️
📚 Thank you to my publicist @whatsthestoryca
Never Come Home Again is all yours 🤍
I was playing around in Open D on my guitar, missing the wildflowers of the Rockies and being nineteen, and this song filtered in through my living room window alongside the hesitant sunlight of a retreating winter’s day. All endings lead to new beginnings, and time has a funny way of bringing us perspective. There have been many moments in my own journey where I’ve been trapped in a purgatory of sorts due to an inability or unwillingness to let go. Loss and liberation can coexist, and “Never Come Home Again” explores how letting go of the past can free us, even when letting go is painful.
This one is the last single before the album drops in April, and it’s easily one of my favourite songs on the album. Hill and I wanted to make this one wild n witchy, and I can’t wait for you to hear it.
NEVER COME HOME AGAIN
By Kaeley Jade
Written by Kaeley Jade Wiebe
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Hill Kourkoutis at The Lair (ON)
Mastered by Kristian Montano at Montano Mastering (ON)
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Acoustic Guitar by Kaeley Jade
Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Keys, Bass Synth & Programming by Hill Kourkoutis
Electric Guitar & Background Vocals by Gabriel Gagnon
Bass & Background Vocals by Kelsey Wood Keys & Background Vocals by Katie Wood
Drums & Background Vocals by Jordan Poirier
First photo by Heather Saitz
Single Cover Artwork by Kaeley Jade Wiebe
Distributed by The Orchard via Small Fry
Supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts & the Edmonton Arts Council
LINK IN BIOOOOOOO
And if you’re still reading, 1. I love you, and 2. I have a huge surprise for you tomorrow
Happy yearning 🥀
The East Pointers dropped in on the Leake in Review podcast to chat about their new release, Schoonertown. Check out the full podcast—available everywhere—and go see the band live on tour with Alan Doyle!
