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Performances

by Land of Talk

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1.
(Instrumental)
2.
Were you all but wished out Western lights are open Hey, you want a long life Some they want to test it Our late to love is Someday we want to be out These under-cared eyes
 Who know what’s on the table Were you on a mission Kissing at the water
 Live inside of reason
 Whose colour dyes the ocean Fly in the bay breeze You: sea
 You: salt
 You: everywhere
 In this favourite warning But I don’t tell
I just like the distance Maybe you feel bad about yourself 
Maybe, maybe you’re free just like the ocean Take a rogue step
 Pick up lightly 
Make it so that it may be seen Hopeful I
 I want to hopefully
 Just stay on my side 
The way you sulk around town No one likes it 
Run in the sea 
In the morning light 
If I believed I could just say Take a deep breath Let it out 
Show the love in Spent so much time on fire 
Baby, I’ve gotten tired 
And in this favourite warning 
But I don’t tell I just like the distance ‘Cause maybe you feel about yourself
 And maybe, maybe you’re free just like the ocean Take a rogue step
 Pick up lightly
 Make it so that it may be found If it works out then it works out Unknown was it shown
 The way you sulk around town No one likes it
 Run in the sea
 In the morning light 
If I believed I could just say Take a deep breath 
Let it out
 Show the love in
3.
Baby, where did I go wrong? 
You said you need it But don’t know the rise is slow like the words You saw me 
Baby, where did I go wrong? 
Anything you needed
 Cause I know you like this song
 They keep coming 
Baby where did I go wrong
 You think you need it
 But don’t know the rise is slow like the words You saw me
 Baby, where did I go wrong 
Anything you needed 
Cause I know you like this song
 They keep coming
4.
Marry It 05:47
Faraway out
 So I like it 
If you like it
 Why don’t you marry it Way down Where you wouldn’t want to wait it out Come around and call
 Have a laugh, have a laugh... I’d hold you like a baby 
Feel it like amniotic 
I didn’t notice then 
There was a record of a singer Playing “Don’t Love A Lie” I didn’t know 
I didn’t notice then Fed, riding
 Thought it was a race It was ON
 So what you living for I’m the lucky one now Skin like no one
 There’s a cooler life I’m afraid of no one It was a ways, a ways away It was a wave a wave a wave Cause I miss your laugh around life Half of us moving on 
I didn’t notice then 
So I don’t like my family Feel it out later on
 Cause I didn’t notice then I didn’t notice then
5.
They should hold you like a baby High up on a mountain
 Where you like to sing all soft Days missed undercover Before you suddenly looked up
 Before you suddenly was a dove
 And unless you don’t know ways this wasn’t tell me But I was not over there
 Yeah, it was coming And I want to see your full eyes in the sunlight, but I don’t I want a love I don’t recognize
 This is some need and so I see it through
 Would never take mine out on somebody else I want a love I don’t recognize Set in a soul light inside
 This is a stone I can’t sink This is a word I can’t sing
 I want a love I don’t recognize I want a love I don’t recognize I want a love I don’t recognize I want a love I don’t recognize I want a love I don’t recognize This should hold you like a baby Never saw your face again
 This should hold you like a baby Never saw your face again And I want to see your full eyes in the sunlight, but I don’t I want a love I don’t recognize 
This is some need and so I see it through 
Would never take mine out on somebody else I want a love I don’t recognize Set in a soul light inside
 This is a song I can’t sing 
This is a world I can’t see I want a love I don’t recognize I want a love I don’t recognize
6.
(Instrumental)
7.
Sitcom 04:26
Making more than love Last thing we want To leave this dream Took your light back Took it right back Oooh Played dead to rights Fucked up what I said with what I did Fairness in love Climb inside and then we fall back in It’s the time of fading sun I never figured it out Just something I’m feeling I never figured it out Just a touch, a feeling I never figured it out Just a touch, a feeling I never figured it out Wake up Morning, love Last thing you want is easy street I took you like that took you like that Oooh I want to hold on like I don’t let go Want to take up all the time but I learned to stop running I turned towards you on another way out Leave while I turn back this breaking little clock It’s the time of fading sun I never figured it out Just something I’m feeling I’ll never figure it out Just a touch, a feeling I’ll never figure it out Just sit down I’m feeling I’ll never figure it out
8.
9.
August 13 00:46
(Instrumental)
10.
Pwintiques 07:03
(Instrumental)

about

Lizzie Powell has always been a risk-taker. As the creative force behind the influential Canadian outfit Land of Talk, the Montreal-based songwriter has over the past 15 years amassed a catalog of four unimpeachable albums that stretch the boundaries of indie rock. But Performances, their fifth LP, feels like a total reinvention: an unflinching statement from an artist who’s not afraid to say how they feel. Though it trades muscular guitar rock for understated piano, it’s still the most urgent, cathartic, and personal release of Powell’s career so far. “It's the weirdest, mightiest little record I've made since I used to write music on my four-track when I was 14,” says Powell. “I needed to make a love letter to my teenage self by being more vulnerable and doing all the production myself.” Here, they doggedly value their own intuition over anything else to make their most rewarding album yet.

Performances is a defiant and resonant blow against expectations and outside pressure. It’s an LP showcasing an artist without constraints and allowing themself to be radically honest. “The album title is very literal,” says Powell. “I'm performing what's in my brain but I'm tired of performing femininity for the music industry, femininity in my life, respectability, and vulnerability. I'm trying to grow out of these and break out of these roles in my life.” Powell’s fearlessness as a songwriter has already led to Land of Talk boasting an unmistakably essential discography but with this album, they find the perfect opportunity to give themself the grace to truly double down on their own vital sensibilities. They usher the songs every step of the way from demoing to producing, imbuing each track with immense care and unfiltered feeling.

“This is me reclaiming Land of Talk as it always has been,” says Powell. “Every record we've made has just been one step closer to me figuring out how I want to make a record myself. I might not ever make an album like this again, but I just felt like I owed it to myself to try.”

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released October 13, 2023

All songs by Elizabeth Powell
Mixed by Rena Kozak
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

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Land of Talk Montreal, Québec

Land of Talk is singer/songwriter/ guitarist, Elizabeth Powell.

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