Thus, there is a unity to the whole affair-and a tenderness. Shauf performed, arranged, and produced every song on The Neon Skyline. Using minimal detail, the individual songs work both separately and as chapters of a larger piece. The Neon Skyline stands up as a great collection of moodily atmospheric songs.

While its overarching narrative is riveting, the real thrill of the album comes from how Shauf finds the humanity and humor in a typical night out and the ashes of a past relationship. On his new album The Neon Skyline (out January 24 via ANTI-), he sets a familiar scene of inviting a friend for beers on the opening title track: “I said, ‘Come to the Skyline, I’ll be washing my sins away.’ He just laughed, said ‘I’ll be late, you know how I can be.'” The LP’s 11 interconnected tracks follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighborhood dive, finds out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows up. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Tickets to Andy Shauf at the Button Factory are EU20.00 (plus bkg fee) and are on sale now from A remarkably evolved variety of break-up album, one whose match of melodicism and bruised romanticism makes it somehow suggestive of Lou Reed’s Berlin as rewritten by Paul Simon.įew artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. His only previous trip to Ireland came in 2016 when he came as a special guest to The Lumineers across their whole European tour. RESCHEDULED DATE – ORIGINAL TICKETS VALIDĪward-winning Canadian Andy Shauf will play his first-ever headline show in Ireland when he brings his 6-piece band to Button Factory in Dublin on 19th May next year.Īndy released his sixth album ‘Neon Sky’ to huge acclaim earlier this year on ANTI- records, and followed up with a live appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show amongst others.

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