About this Event

Alden Penner (The Unicorns) & Michael Cera

plus The Adam Brown



http://www.theboileroom.net/listings/events/22-jun-15-alden-penner-the-unicorns--michael-cera-the-boileroom/



Alden Penner is a musician based in Montreal, active internationally since the early 2000’s with touring bands The Unicorns and Clues. His debut solo album Exegesis was released digitally in 2014 featuring songs he had been performing for the previous 10 years. It was co-produced with Laura Crapo and performed and recorded entirely by Penner. 2014 also saw the reunion of The Unicorns for six shows in NY, LA and Montreal. The Unicorns had not performed together since 2004.



In December 2014, Penner released demos on the EP “June 04” along with a video for “Oh How The Day” by Nic Brown. In January of 2015 he released a track called “Meditate” which features actor Michael Cera on backing vocals. Cera will be accompanying Penner on his upcoming UK/European tour and playing his own songs. The tour will also feature Laura Crapo on drums and Farley Miller on bass and keyboard. Together they will perform songs from Alden’s new EP “Canada in Space” out June 15th on City Slang as well as songs from throughout his career



In 2003 Alden Penner cemented himself in the annals of indie rock history as the co-founder/singer of The Unicorns. Montreal’s beloved dysfunctional art-pop outfit imploded shortly after the release of their now seminal album ‘Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?’ (8.9 Best New Re-Issue, Pitchfork). Following a series of low-key self releases Alden Penner is back with a new EP ‘Canada In Space’ out June 29th via City Slang digitally and on limited edition vinyl.



Featuring his friends Michael Cera, Laura Crapo and Farley Miller he will be touring the UK and EU in June/July playing songs from his new EP Canada in Space along with songs from throughout his career.



“There are more Canadians than any other nationality represented in the planned Mars colony. The “Canada In Space” EP is an imagining of the dreams, reveries, phantasms, hallucinations, psycho-spiritual projections, naïve mythologies, actions, visions and experiences of an abandoned crew before, during and after it’s permanent journey to Mars; the compression of time; dispersion, fragmentation of states and generations in space; ultimate detachment & wormholes.”



Listen to "Breathe to Burn" here: https://soundcloud.com/cityslang/alden-penner-breathe-to-burn



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