Canada-born, London-based singer-songwriter TESS PARKS is today revealing “California’s Dreaming”, the third and final single to be lifted from the incoming Pomegranate album out October 25th via Fuzz Club / Hand Drawn Dracula. The new single also follows her recent inclusion on the official ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘ soundtrack with her 2013 track ‘Somedays‘.

Now trailed by “California’s Dreaming” and recent singles “Crown Shy” and “Koalas”, ‘Pomegranate’ is the follow-up to Parks’ long-awaited solo return after nearly a decade with ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing‘, which arrived in 2022 to critical acclaim. In support of Pomegranate, Parks and her band will play three intimate record store release shows in London and Brighton.

Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, Pomegranate finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside GRAMMY-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire). Where ‘Dancing’ retained a fair measure of bedroom-demo charm, on ‘Pomegranate‘ the canvas is bigger, with Meehan’s arrangements stretching all the way to the horizon.

Out today, “California’s Dreaming” is a piece of hypnotic, organ-soaked psych-pop reminiscent of her cult collaborative albums with The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe. On the underlying message behind the song, Parks says: “I believe people are innately good and everything that happens and everyone that comes into your life is a great teacher. EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY.”

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“A warm and analog-soft embrace” – THE AUTUMN ROSES

See Tess Parks live:
Oct 26 – London – Rough Trade East (Full Band)
Oct 27 – Brighton – Resident (Stripped Back)
Oct 30 – London – Rough Trade West (Stripped Back)
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Canada-born, London-based singer/songwriter TESS PARKS is today announcing her third solo album, ‘Pomegranate’, and sharing the lead single and video ‘Koalas’. Out October 25th via Fuzz Club worldwide and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada, ‘Pomegranate’ is the follow-up to her long-awaited solo return with ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’, which arrived in 2022 to critical acclaim following a string of collaborative albums with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe.

Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, ‘Pomegranate’ finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire). New single ‘Koalas’ is a piece of beautifully hazy, slow-burning psych-folk with Parks’ smoky vocals floating over feathery acoustic guitar and piano, and some spellbinding whistling courtesy of Molly Lewis.

On the new single, Parks says: “In November 2020, Ruari was in London and I was in Toronto and he sent me the music for ‘Koalas’. At this point, we hadn’t seen each other in over a year. It would be another year before we saw each other again. I was suffering from severe PTSD at this point in my life, and to be honest, I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the song properly until early February. When I finally did – it was one of those moments when you hear a song and you know it’s going to be one of your favourite, most cherished songs for your whole life. It’s the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard.”

She adds: “Ruari sending me this song instigated the making of this album – a daily back and forth correspondence where he would send me music and I would sing some words over it and then he would sing other ideas back to me. It was a true lifeline at what felt like the end of the world. I don’t know who I would be without these songs, this song particularly, and waking up everyday looking forward to what he was going to send me next.”

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“une excellente pièce psych folk feutrée où sa voix se dépose sur cette composition volante et langoureuse” – LE CANAL AUDITIF

“A beautiful piece of songwriting, Tess Parks’ understated vocal puts you in mind of Cat Power or Hope Sandeval, but with a character of her own.” – CLASH

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“a signature dusky lilt atop a downy layer of keys and guitar” – EXCLAIM!

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“Tess Parks announces new album ‘Pomegranate’ — hear the breezy lead single Koalas” – STEREOGUM

“bask in the ageless and amber glow of mysterious Koalas” – THE AUTUMN ROSES

“Big City Small World with Errol Nazareth” – 99.1FM CBC RADIO ONE

“Afterdark with Odario Williams” – CBC MUSIC

“a smokey voice, beyond smokiness. I love it … a beautiful song” – SIMON LE BON / WHOOOSH RADIO

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Toronto-born, London-based artist TESS PARKS releases a new video for ‘I See Angels’, lifted from her newly-released solo album, ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’, out now on Fuzz Club and Hand Drawn Dracula Records. Alongside the new album, Parks has also announced UK/EU tour and festival dates in support. Following years of international touring and a lengthy list of critically-acclaimed collaborations with Brian Jonestown Massacre‘s Anton Newcombe in recent years (most recently the duo’s self-titled 2018 LP), the new album will be Parks’ first full-length solo offering since her much-loved debut album, ‘Blood Hot‘, was released back in 2013. Trailing the highly-praised singles ‘Happy Birthday Forever‘, ‘Brexit at Tiffany’s‘ and ‘Do You Pray?‘, ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing‘ is out now.

On ‘I See Angels’, Parks says: “This song was written on my way out of New York and for the video I always had this vision of dancers dancing all over the city, I always love seeing people who have the confidence, discipline and motivation to decide that they’re going to go to some particular spot and just dance there for the day. I came across Joe Bressler’s work and loved it and he lived in New York so we decided to collaborate. We loosely discussed locations, but without knowing, he ended up choosing some places that had great personal sentimental significance to me. I love how the video ends with this beautiful ballerina finally out free and dancing in nature. That whole last dance sequence is framed like an actual renaissance painting.”

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Following the highly acclaimed singles “Happy Birthday Forever” and “Brexit At Tiffany’s“, Toronto-born, London-based artist TESS PARKS releases “Do You Pray?” (video directed by Gsus Lopez w/ dance by Mark Wagner) from her new album And Those Who Were Seen Dancing out May 20 (digital) and June 24th (vinyl) via Fuzz Club (UK) and Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada).

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Recorded over two years between 2019 and 2021 but with songs, lyrics and ideas dating back over a decade in some form, And Those Who Were Seen Dancing – Parks’ first solo LP since 2013’s Blood Hot – is an album full of moments, people and places. Taking constant inspiration from interactions with those around her, “Do You Pray?” is a perfect case in point.

“My friend Annie just asked me one day out of the blue, ‘Do you pray?‘, and I thought, ‘Wow, yes I love that and yes I do, every day.’ The song is a mix of two traditionals: ‘My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean’ and ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’. This is one of a few songs on the album where my dad can be heard playing my grand-fathers old piano.”

* Due to manufacturing delays and reigning pressing plant chaos, the vinyl is unfortunately delayed and will now be released June 24th // photograph by Katy Newcombe

Toronto-born, London-based singer-songwriter TESS PARKS is today announcing her long-awaited new album ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’ and sharing the first single, ‘Happy Birthday Forever’. Following years of international touring and a lengthy list of collaborations with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe in recent years (most recently the duo’s self-titled 2018 LP), the new album will be released May 20th by Fuzz Club Records and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada and will be Parks’ first full-length solo offering since her much-loved debut album, ‘Blood Hot’, was released back in 2013. The uplifting, almost gospel-infused psych pop of ‘Happy Birthday Forever’ is out now.

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“In my mind, this album is like hopscotch”, Parks says of ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’: “These songs were pieced together over time in London, Toronto and Los Angeles with friends and family between August 2019 and March 2021. So many other versions of these songs exist. The recording and final completion of this album took over two years and wow – the lesson I have learned the most is that words are spells. If I didn’t know it before, I know it now for sure. I only want to put good out into the universe.”

A creeping disillusionment with the state of the world paired with an injury that stopped Parks from being able to play guitar and piano for months meant the album was nearly shelved. “I really felt discouraged to complete this album”, she recalls: “I stopped listening to music for honestly about a year altogether and turned to painting instead. I really had to convince myself again that it’s important to just share whatever good we can – having faith in ourselves to know that our lights can shine on and on through other people and for other people. The thought of anyone not sharing their art or being shy of anything they create seems like a real tragedy to me. Even if it’s not perfect, you’re capturing a moment.”

Recorded over two years between 2019 and 2021 but with songs, lyrics and ideas dating back over a decade in some form, ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’ is an album full of such moments, people and places. Out now with an accompanying video made from home-recordings of Parks at ballet classes as a child, ‘Happy Birthday Forever’ is a perfect case in point. Parks says of the track:

“These lyrics were written when I was living on Henshaw Street in Elephant and Castle in 2009. I think I used to play this at some of my first solo shows in London. In late August 2019, I brought the words to Ruari [Meehan]’s, and him and Francesco [Perini] had already made this amazing music so I sang over it and then later, Josh [Korody] added the awesome beat that comes in. The song was very cleverly and surprisingly originally titled ‘Get Me Out Of Here’, and one day in October 2020 my sister, Isabella, was driving us home from a mixing session and I saw a license plate that said ‘GMOOH’, which is how I always used to abbreviate it, so I was like, ‘Okay, I’m definitely on the right path, I must be. Gotta finish this album’.”