New York-based, Toronto-born singer-songwriter Nate Daviau has released his debut EP, The Apology, via DOOGOOD.
Spanning seven tracks, the EP traces a year of Daviau’s life spent moving between self-destruction and recovery, pairing confessional lyricism with warm, folk-leaning instrumentation. Focus track ‘Indigo Pablo’ closes the record, drawing on Picasso’s Blue Period to frame a shift from isolation towards connection.
The EP opens with ‘Clementine’, already past 150,000 streams, a song built on the idea that a relationship can be flawed and still worth holding onto. ‘The Opener’ turns a familiar frustration, being the underappreciated support act, into an unexpected love song. The title track, ‘The Apology’, is the record’s emotional centre: a piano ballad written from inside addiction, working through remorse and self-deception before any real change takes hold.
Elsewhere, ‘Pretty Privilege’ and ‘Ballad’ both push back against tidy ideas of romance, the former reclaiming beauty from its usual baggage, the latter sitting with the insecurity of feeling unworthy of someone’s love. ‘Esprit De Corps’ widens the EP’s palette into something more psychedelic and pop-leaning, built on youthful optimism, before ‘Indigo Pablo’ brings the project to its most hopeful point.
Daviau, a Berklee graduate, has performed at NXNE in Toronto and shared stages with Kevin Garrett, Marie Dresselhuis and The White Buffalo, and was a finalist on Season 2 of The Launch. The Apology is his third EP and his most personal release to date.
The Apology is out now via DOOGOOD.
New York-based, Toronto-born singer-songwriter Nate Daviau has released his debut EP, The Apology, via DOOGOOD.
Spanning seven tracks, the EP traces a year of Daviau’s life spent moving between self-destruction and recovery, pairing confessional lyricism with warm, folk-leaning instrumentation. Focus track ‘Indigo Pablo’ closes the record, drawing on Picasso’s Blue Period to frame a shift from isolation towards connection.
The EP opens with ‘Clementine’, already past 150,000 streams, a song built on the idea that a relationship can be flawed and still worth holding onto. ‘The Opener’ turns a familiar frustration, being the underappreciated support act, into an unexpected love song. The title track, ‘The Apology’, is the record’s emotional centre: a piano ballad written from inside addiction, working through remorse and self-deception before any real change takes hold.
Elsewhere, ‘Pretty Privilege’ and ‘Ballad’ both push back against tidy ideas of romance, the former reclaiming beauty from its usual baggage, the latter sitting with the insecurity of feeling unworthy of someone’s love. ‘Esprit De Corps’ widens the EP’s palette into something more psychedelic and pop-leaning, built on youthful optimism, before ‘Indigo Pablo’ brings the project to its most hopeful point.
Daviau, a Berklee graduate, has performed at NXNE in Toronto and shared stages with Kevin Garrett, Marie Dresselhuis and The White Buffalo, and was a finalist on Season 2 of The Launch. The Apology is his third EP and his most personal release to date.
The Apology is out now via DOOGOOD.
New York-based, Toronto-born singer-songwriter Nate Daviau has released his debut EP, The Apology, via DOOGOOD.
Spanning seven tracks, the EP traces a year of Daviau’s life spent moving between self-destruction and recovery, pairing confessional lyricism with warm, folk-leaning instrumentation. Focus track ‘Indigo Pablo’ closes the record, drawing on Picasso’s Blue Period to frame a shift from isolation towards connection.
The EP opens with ‘Clementine’, already past 150,000 streams, a song built on the idea that a relationship can be flawed and still worth holding onto. ‘The Opener’ turns a familiar frustration, being the underappreciated support act, into an unexpected love song. The title track, ‘The Apology’, is the record’s emotional centre: a piano ballad written from inside addiction, working through remorse and self-deception before any real change takes hold.
Elsewhere, ‘Pretty Privilege’ and ‘Ballad’ both push back against tidy ideas of romance, the former reclaiming beauty from its usual baggage, the latter sitting with the insecurity of feeling unworthy of someone’s love. ‘Esprit De Corps’ widens the EP’s palette into something more psychedelic and pop-leaning, built on youthful optimism, before ‘Indigo Pablo’ brings the project to its most hopeful point.
Daviau, a Berklee graduate, has performed at NXNE in Toronto and shared stages with Kevin Garrett, Marie Dresselhuis and The White Buffalo, and was a finalist on Season 2 of The Launch. The Apology is his third EP and his most personal release to date.
The Apology is out now via DOOGOOD.
New York-based, Toronto-born singer-songwriter Nate Daviau has released his debut EP, The Apology, via DOOGOOD.
Spanning seven tracks, the EP traces a year of Daviau’s life spent moving between self-destruction and recovery, pairing confessional lyricism with warm, folk-leaning instrumentation. Focus track ‘Indigo Pablo’ closes the record, drawing on Picasso’s Blue Period to frame a shift from isolation towards connection.
The EP opens with ‘Clementine’, already past 150,000 streams, a song built on the idea that a relationship can be flawed and still worth holding onto. ‘The Opener’ turns a familiar frustration, being the underappreciated support act, into an unexpected love song. The title track, ‘The Apology’, is the record’s emotional centre: a piano ballad written from inside addiction, working through remorse and self-deception before any real change takes hold.
Elsewhere, ‘Pretty Privilege’ and ‘Ballad’ both push back against tidy ideas of romance, the former reclaiming beauty from its usual baggage, the latter sitting with the insecurity of feeling unworthy of someone’s love. ‘Esprit De Corps’ widens the EP’s palette into something more psychedelic and pop-leaning, built on youthful optimism, before ‘Indigo Pablo’ brings the project to its most hopeful point.
Daviau, a Berklee graduate, has performed at NXNE in Toronto and shared stages with Kevin Garrett, Marie Dresselhuis and The White Buffalo, and was a finalist on Season 2 of The Launch. The Apology is his third EP and his most personal release to date.
The Apology is out now via DOOGOOD.
New York-based, Toronto-born singer-songwriter Nate Daviau has released his debut EP, The Apology, via DOOGOOD.
Spanning seven tracks, the EP traces a year of Daviau’s life spent moving between self-destruction and recovery, pairing confessional lyricism with warm, folk-leaning instrumentation. Focus track ‘Indigo Pablo’ closes the record, drawing on Picasso’s Blue Period to frame a shift from isolation towards connection.
The EP opens with ‘Clementine’, already past 150,000 streams, a song built on the idea that a relationship can be flawed and still worth holding onto. ‘The Opener’ turns a familiar frustration, being the underappreciated support act, into an unexpected love song. The title track, ‘The Apology’, is the record’s emotional centre: a piano ballad written from inside addiction, working through remorse and self-deception before any real change takes hold.
Elsewhere, ‘Pretty Privilege’ and ‘Ballad’ both push back against tidy ideas of romance, the former reclaiming beauty from its usual baggage, the latter sitting with the insecurity of feeling unworthy of someone’s love. ‘Esprit De Corps’ widens the EP’s palette into something more psychedelic and pop-leaning, built on youthful optimism, before ‘Indigo Pablo’ brings the project to its most hopeful point.
Daviau, a Berklee graduate, has performed at NXNE in Toronto and shared stages with Kevin Garrett, Marie Dresselhuis and The White Buffalo, and was a finalist on Season 2 of The Launch. The Apology is his third EP and his most personal release to date.
The Apology is out now via DOOGOOD.
