Myriam Gendron - Not So Deep As A Well LP

RELEASES ON THE 15/11/24

Nearly 10 years since it's initial release Myriam Gendron's cult classic debut finally gets a full European physical release with 2 new tracks not on the original version.

Equal parts soft and sorrowful, Myriam Gendron’s stunning "Not So Deep As A Well" became something of a sleeper hit upon its initial release back in 2014. Her debut album shone a warm lamp-light glow upon a curious and captivating new voice in the Quebecois folk world.

Nearly ten years on from its release in her native Canada and America, "Not So Deep As A Well" gets a European release for the first time this autumn, with a new pressing on the Basin Rock label (Julie Byrne, Aoife Nessa Frances, Trevor Beales, Juni Habel) which features two tracks not included on the original release - Bric-à-brac and The Small Hours - both written and recorded in the early days of 2014.

Recorded alone in her apartment, with no knowledge of sound engineering, it could almost be a lost artefact, a dust-lined document of a forgotten time and place. Taking the poems of Dorothy Parker, whose work Gendron stumbled upon by chance in a Montreal bookstore, she imbues the words with a graceful, gentle expression, a lingering sense of sorrow always present.

A stark, spellbinding collection, "Not So Deep As A Well" is raw and unyielding in so many ways we no longer expect to hear. As if sitting in the room with her, Gendron’s voice is cracked and unadorned, quietly forced into a push and pull between the quietude of the songs and the noisy world outside.

About this product: this reissue is pressed on 180g black vinyl.