Out now: Bya Parula – Something Out Of Nothing

Bye Parula’s new album Something Out Of Nothing has arrived. In celebration of the release, the Montreal trio has shared the video for the infectious title track, watch here. “This one is like an introvert’s anthem, as if you see someone so free out in the world that you envy them and want to talk to them but you just can’t. Everything is going so fast in your head, but nothing comes out,” explains singer/bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola of the song. “I loved the two meanings of that title. As a band, we’ve made something out of nothing: We just worked our ass off, we didn’t have connections, this was not our country, so it was like, ‘Yeah, we have to do something out of nothing to create this music…”

Produced by Robbie Kuster (Patrick Watson) and mixed by Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), Something Out Of Nothing features Calatayud-Sola, guitarist Sebastián Riquelme, and drummer Sergio D’Isanto working together with a team of collaborators, including Inuk singer/songwriter Elisapie, Bibi Club’s Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Morgan Moore and Karkwa keyboardist François Lafontaine. The album arrives following three additional pre-release singles: the atmospheric and velvety ‘Quand vient le soir;’ the undeniable earworm of mirror-ball-twirling energy ‘KISSBURN;’ and the sparkling, dancefloor-ready ‘I don’t know.’

Where their earliest recordings captured a group of newly acquainted players still getting to know each other through musical communication, Something Out of Nothing is a testament to their deepening friendships and increasingly intuitive interplay. The result is Something Out Of Nothing: a mercurial mix that draws from the orchestral groove of Serge Gainsbourg, the wounded melodies of Elliott Smith, the cosmopolitan rhythms of the Talking Heads, and the artisanal R&B of Dijon, all imbued with a 1970s cinematic sensibility that blurs the line between sunny, fuzzy fantasy and urbane sophistication.

Something Out of Nothing is divided into two parts for the listener’s experience: ‘Songs to Listen to in a Standing Position’ and ‘Songs to Listen to in a Sitting Position.’ Two atmospheres that seem diametrically opposed yet are ultimately and intimately connected. Whether racing through the night or settling into dawn’s light, each track is woven from the same thread: love made alive by care. In this way, the album unfolds as a complete story. Its standing-position songs celebrate how love moves us, while its sitting-position songs reveal how love holds us. Together, they remind us of the necessity of both movement and stillness, of brightness and depth embracing the joy that lifts us and the pain that grounds us. Urging us to dance. Urging us to pause.

Stream / download Something Out Of Nothing here.