Gord Downie and Bob Rock’s album Lustre Parfait is out today – watch video
TORONTO May 5, 2023 – The long mythologized album by the legendary Gord Downie and the iconic producer Bob Rock finally sees the full light of day today. More than ten years in the making, ‘Lustre Parfait’ is celebrated as “a stunning thrill ride that features Downie at his rocking, passionate best” (Toronto Star), and “one of the best albums of the late singer’s entire career” (Vancouver Sun).
Recorded between 2009 and 2016 in Maui, Vancouver, Toronto, and Los Angeles, the album’s fourteen songs are alight with Gord’s incomparable lyrics and the brilliant musical imagination of Rock, the Grammy-winning Hall of Fame-inducted producer who has worked with everyone from Metallica to Michael Bublé. A stunning thrill ride that features Downie at his rocking, passionate best and Rock sculpting the perfect musical foundations around his lyrically cryptic musings.” Toronto Star
In contrast to the raw intimacy of Downie’s posthumous solo releases ‘Introduce Yerself’ and ‘Away Is Mine,’ ‘Lustre Parfait’ is a grand and raucous affair, each of its fourteen songs flourishing with pristine imagery and expounding sound. From barnburners like “Greyboy Says” and “Something More” to heartrending ballads like “The Moment Is A Wild Place” and “The North Shore,” ‘Lustre Parfait’ is a gift of unbridled expression from Canada’s most cherished voice, a timeless invitation to “gather in the dark.”
Album out today in 2LP, CD, and digital formats.
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