Name: Stolen Time
Brand: Abigail Lapell

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-OUTS-9175C

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Green

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Opaque Olive Vinyl

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

623339917513

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

CD-OUTS-9175

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623339917520

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Abigail Lapell

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Outside Music

Abigail Lapell is a Canadian folk-noir singer-songwriter based in Toronto. With her hauntingly beautiful voice and introspective lyrics, she captivates audiences with her unique blend of folk, country, and blues. Abigail's music explores themes of love, loss, and the human experience, drawing inspiration from both personal stories and the world around her. Her soulful melodies and poetic storytelling create an emotional connection that resonates with listeners. Whether performing on stage or recording in the studio, Abigail's passion for music shines through in every note.
Throughout her career, Abigail has released several critically acclaimed albums that have garnered praise from both fans and critics alike. Her debut album [Album Name] showcased her raw talent as a songwriter and established her as a rising star in the folk music scene. Since then, she has continued to evolve as an artist, pushing boundaries and exploring new musical territories.
In addition to her solo work, Abigail has collaborated with other talented musicians and bands, lending her vocals and songwriting skills to various projects. She has also toured extensively across Canada and internationally, sharing her music with audiences far and wide.

"Just listen". Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell offers this prompt at the end of synesthetic piano tune “I See Music”, but the invitation could apply to her entire third album, Stolen Time. Produced by Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire) at Hotel2Tango Studio in Montreal, Stolen Time is elemental and powerfully evocative, channeling natural imagery and the revolving seasons to take a longer look over decades and generations, ultimately delivering up the present moment the way only the best music can.

A theme of recovery runs through Stolen Time, with lyrics about becoming sober or coping with a partner’s sudden illness, exploring the cycle of relapse and rehabilitation. The album’s title comes from the musical term tempo rubato, which Lapell picked up while teaching herself piano. Referring to the expressive push and pull of tempo in musical phrasing, it’s also a fitting metaphor for the fragile rhythm of uncertain times, darkness hand in hand with escapism.

By turns poetic and painterly, Stolen Time brings a live-off-the-floor, 70s folk-rock vibe and structural experimentation to songs that feel expansive in their scope—unhurried, psychedelic and other-worldly in the vein of Gillian Welch or Karen Dalton. It also marks the meeting of two important music communities for Lapell, who spent formative years living in Montreal’s Mile End before moving back to her hometown. Toronto players include Dan Fortin (bass), Dani Nash (drums, vocals) and Christine Bougie (lap steel, guitars); and from Montreal, Katie Moore (vocals), Pietro Amato (French horn) and Ellwood Epps (trumpet).

For fans of: Gillian Welch, Karen Dalton, Andy Shauf, Sandy Denny