It’s springtime here in Paradise, and to paraphrase poet Al Purdy (as quoted by Jennifer Castle), “the seed has imagined the flower” into blooming-being. Angels of Death, Castle’s sublime and ravishing new album, can be heard on high today. Tune into the angelic frequencies below, stream it everywhere music is streamable, and please considering buying a copy directly from us or from your favorite local shop, digi-merchant, or mailorder. Don’t let the Muses catch you in the news. Read on for the heavenly choir of critical acclaim.

 

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ACCLAIM FOR JENNIFER CASTLE AND ANGELS OF DEATH

“She’s never been more potent than on her new album, a work that may well stand the test of time as a masterpiece. Like some sacred text, it is a scriptural paean to the loved ones lost and the indelible mark they’ve left on our lives. It mourns and it celebrates, embracing the transformation of time, eternal constellation of growth and decay and growth again. These deeply difficult and existential musings find Castle at the height of her artistic powers, both sonically and lyrically.” Aquarium Drunkard

“8/10. Fine-boned, effortless. Despite its gloomily foreboding title, Castle’s new country-soul/folk set is light, lean, and possesses a dulcet luminosity. With an empathetic band featuring strings, keys, and pedal steel, Castle alternately pulls the songs into focus with her clear, honeyed voice and lets it drift free inside them.” – Uncut

“Jennifer Castle’s Angels of Death is an ethereal, deeply poetic take on the subject—nimble, sure-footed and beautifully written and performed… Amid the ghosts, Castle’s sublime songs, crystalline voice and the integrity of her delivery carry [us] to the brighter side of life.” Associated Press

“A new album for everyone to fall in love with. Castle’s silken vocals are grounded very much in the shit of everyday life, creating poetry out of personal crisis that never lapses into self-pity, as a bass obligingly droops along and piano chords crash like waves of vapor.” The FADER

“4/5. The Canadian’s third finds her feeling mortal: drawing on poetry, reminiscence, visions, ghosts, and the corporeal return to the earth, for country-soul songs full of warmth and comfort.”  – MOJO

 

Photo by Cash Honey 2018.

 

“9/10. Angels of Death is a stark contemplation of death as experienced by the living, but it’s also a meditation on writing, legacy and the defiance tangled up in the “majesty of turning / flesh into the storyline,” as Castle sings on hushed, fingerpicked “Grim Reaper.” it is surprising that this deep, traversing album is only 35 minutes long.” – Exclaim!

“A gorgeous collection of country-soul gold. Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. As a songwriter, Castle has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humour and devastating beauty. This is a record of jolts and gentle hands, a space in which to find answers in every verse and questions in the silences. It’s the kind of art that will continue to call you home for years and years to come.” CBC Music

“Castle’s music is otherworldly, with a sanguine sense of certitude and deep-rooted keenness.” Uproxx

“Castle reaches a pitch of mystical transport so gorgeously ethereal she seems about to drift off into lands that don’t appear on any map.” – Greil Marcus

“Castle’s music is not so much of the earth as floating above it, untethered to the natural order of time and space. Her songs live in that gray area where observation mutates into rumination, and where the physical world dissolves into psychic terrain.” – Pitchfork

“What compels here is Castle’s ability to have created a piece of art so intimately descriptive of her personal fear of death, and how it links to the songwriter process and her thirst for immortality.” Drowned in Sound

“She’s easily one of Canada’s great singer-songwriters of this century.” The Revue

 

 

Castle in Uncut.

 

SPRING TOURS

Hag on his heavenly houseboat.

For full dates and ticket info: https://paradiseofbachelors.com/live/

Spring is a fine time to tour. Check out upcoming tour dates by the following artists:

James Elkington
Gun Outfit
Itasca
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Jennifer Castle
Lavender Country
Michael Chapman
Nap Eyes
Mind Over Mirrors
Red River Dialect
Terry Allen
The Weather Station