Basia Bulat today shared her new single “My Angel,” the opening track from her forthcoming album Basia’s Palace, out February 21, 2025, via Secret City Records on vinyl, CD and digitally. Of the lush, joyful song–out now alongside a Nora Rosenthal-directed video that premiered via Flood Magazine, she explains: “This is a song about love at first sight–a rush of overwhelming emotion that feels definite, unmistakeable, and mysterious all at the same time. I wanted my singing on this song to reflect the way that I wrote the music: sneaking in moments while my baby daughter was sleeping, rushing to the Wurlitzer in the basement when an idea struck in the middle of the night. The string arrangements on ‘My Angel’ and the entire album were all written and performed by Drew Jurecka and I love how he captured the mystery and romance of love at first sight, the violins transforming into something divine.” Co-produced by Bulat with frequent collaborator Mark Lawson (who worked with her on previous albums Tall Tall Shadow and The Garden) and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National), Basia’s Palace is now available for pre-order and pre-save.
“My Angel” follows lead single “Baby,” which caught press attention from Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, The Needle Drop, No Depression,and more. The Montreal-based Bulat’s North American tour in support of the album will also begin early next year on February 15th in St Albert, AB. The current itinerary is below.
The property at the heart of Basia’s Palace is at once Bulat’s apartment, her jam-space, and the inside of her head. It is a place festooned with love and memory, and bad wiring; it’s a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night–a time that’s suited to video games and dusty old records, when you sit in all that richness and take in all the mess we inherit.. Basia’s Palace got its start in 2022. A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4. It brought to mind anecdotes Bulat had heard about Leonard Cohen—how he used to do his best writing at three or four a.m., before his kids woke up, when he’d sit and toy with his Casio’s presets. Now it was Bulat sneaking down to play RPGs or to make music on her MacBook, listening for the spirit-world at a time when the veil felt thinnest. The songs she was creating didn’t feel like anything she had recorded before—MIDI soundscapes that floated and gleamed, like hidden levels above (or below) the action. And as she looked around at the relics and heirlooms of life, she found herself thinking about her memories differently, too, and finding new ways of understanding all that happened in her life across the years.
The album that emerged from all this is the softest and most searching of her career. Basia’s Palace is like a time-travel score, with Bulat akin to Chrono Trigger’s intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future. After years of releasing records where live performance came first—culminating in The Garden, which reimagined some of her best-loved songs with help from a string quartet—the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano or guitar. She found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes–and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs. As a result, Basia’s Palace feels like an album that was concealed behind the backings of Bulat’s childhood photos, where mystery and romance mingle over squelchy synths, drum machine, and soaring string arrangements (“My Angel”); where a quiet garden scene is built to a deafening sublime (“Laughter”); where Bulat makes a track she’s been threatening to make for years, a folk-song named for a genre of Polish dance music that was beloved by her late father (“Disco Polo”).
Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance. This is the truest location of Basia’s Palace: not just the Mile End jam-space where she recorded much of this LP; not just her home, her family, or her searching spirit. But the moment itself—the one that happens on-stage, or in the instant of creation—when a song leaves Basia’s heart and leaps onto her lips.
Basia Bulat Live Dates:
Feb 15 – St. Albert, AB – Arden Theatre
Feb 16 – Regina, SK – Darke Hall
Mar 7 – Ottawa, ON – NAC
Mar 14 – Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount
Mar 15 – Sherbrooke, QC – La Petite Boîte Noire
Mar 19 – Boston, MA – City Winery
Mar 20 – New York City, NY – Joe’s Pub
Mar 21 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
Mar 22 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Mar 28 – Quebec City, QC – Théâtre Petit Champlain
April 2 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
April 3 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
April 4 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
April 5 – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium
April 30 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre
May 2 – Seattle, WA – Triple Door
May 3 – Portland, OR – Mission Theater
May 5 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
May 7 – Los Angeles, CA – The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall
May 23 – London, ON – Aeolian Hall
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