Charlotte Day Wilson, Cecil Believe and more featuring on Ouri's forthcoming album, Daisy Cutter
Montreal-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Ouri has announced her forthcoming new album Daisy Cutter, alongside the release of its title track.
The album’s title, Daisy Cutter, carries a duality – borrowed from a bomb, devastating and absolute, it also evokes the delicate act of trimming a flower. Ouri keeps both in play, moving between sweeping force and precise gestures. Out of this tension arises music that feels both intimate and insurgent.
Speaking about how the album came into being Ouri notes, “All these trusting miles in the dark led me to these 13 songs. Daisy Cutter is music but it’s also the leader of a militia, a part of me. Like a rotor, I started a practice that brought all this album to life and it’s gonna keep spinning even when I let go of the wheel.”
Around her, friends and collaborators assemble as comrades, an underground militia intent on cultivating a future sound. Longtime allies including Mobilegirl, Oli XL, Bby Eco, Charlotte Day Wilson, Bamo Yendé, Cecil Believe, Duncan Hood, Jonah Yano, Sea Oleena and Cowboy Lansky join Ouri across the album, their contributions recorded in borrowed spaces, apartments, and other non-studio settings, exploring various ways of being in the world that allow for the contradictions of fortification and desire.
Daisy Cutter follows Ouri’s 2021 debut album, Frame of a Fauna, which was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize, as well as her collaborative project Jour 1596 with Helena Deland as Hildegard.
Daisy Cutter is set for release on 24 October, and is available to pre-order now.
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