Bahamas’ “Stronger Than That” With Yahoo! Music

BAHAMAS’ NEW VIDEO “STRONGER THAN THAT” PREMIERES ON YAHOO! MUSIC
BAHAMAS IS AFIE SET FOR AUGUST 19 RELEASE
VIA BRUSHFIRE RECORDS
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES CONFIRMED

“His voice and his guitar playing merge with a lush beauty.”—NPR “Fresh Air”

“A sublime, incomparable leading man, one with a soulful, sweet and stylish touch
in his song-writing.”—Globe and Mail

“Bahamas distills his brand of breezy soul…with summer-ready falsetto
harmonies that float over a distorted riff, before ending with a quick solo, a move that reminds this laid back Canuck can shred.” —SPIN

Yahoo! Music is premiering new video for “Stronger Than That” from Afie Jurvanen, who performs as Bahamas. Of the song, Jurvanen recently told Paste, “The album was more or less finished when we decided to go back in and cut this track…it’s a song about believing in someone, someone who doesn’t really believe in themselves. It’s about encouragement, which is something I think we could often use more of.” See North American fall tour dates below.

This new release follows 2011’s Barchords, which The Guardian praised as containing “stripped-down harmony-brushed songs with gorgeous hooks and without a wasted note.” Jurvanen sought to create and produce a more developed arrangement of strings, brass, winds, orchestral percussion, and chamber choruses on Bahamas Is Afie. Prior to this record, Jurvanen’s releases have all been sparsely recorded bedroom records with this new album marking a
transition to a more complex and fully arranged collection of music. “The songs seem to have a definitive quality to them,” claims Jurvanen, “and they ended up going to all kinds of unexpected musical places for me. I really thought I was going to make a traditional folk record, but as the recording evolved, I started having some pretty different ideas…It all came together in a simple, naive and direct way and I was really energized by the process.”

Jurvanen’s debut album Pink Strat was released in 2009. The record was nominated for both a Juno Award and the Polaris Music Prize. Bahamas hit the road for two years after the release touring with artists such as Wilco and Robert Plant. In 2011 he releasedBarachords, which was nominated for two Juno Awards including Adult Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of The Year and was named Best Singer/Songwriter Album of 2012 by iTunes. Wall Street Journal praised the record as “bluesy and hypnotic,” andThe Los Angeles Times called “A delightfully rare kind of record that commands an instant replay.”

BAHAMAS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
September 10 Fredericton, NB The Ready Room
September 12 Portland, ME Empire
September 13 Boston, MA Great Scott
September 15 Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
September 17 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge
September 18 Washington, DC DC9
September 19 Raleigh, NC Cat’s Cradle
September 21 Atlanta, GA The Earl
September 22 Nashville, TN High Watt
October 1 Chicago, IL Schubas
October 2 Indianapolis, IN Hi Fi
October 3 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill
October 4 Kansas City, MO Record Bar
October 7 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
October 10 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
October 11 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
October 14 Portland, OR Doug Fir
October 15 Seattle, WA Columbia City Theater
October 16 Victoria, BC Alix Goolden
October 17 Vancouver, Canada Vogue
October 18 Kelowna, Canada Habitat
October 20 Calgary, Canada Knox
October 22 Saskatoon, Canada Broadway Theatre
October 23 Winnipeg, Canada Garrick †
October 25 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
November 5 Toronto, Canada Danforth*
November 6 Montreal, Canada Metropolis*
November 7 Sherbrooke, Canada Theatre Grande*
November 8 Quebec City, Canada Imperial*

* with The Barr Brothers
† with Boy & Bear