New Copy on North Pole Records
Split LP by these two incredible Canadian bands on Kirks' Grocery in-house label, North Pole Records.
36? is an award-winning internationally touring art-rock band originally out of Calgary, AB. For years 36? have ruled Calgary’s local scene with a whimsical fist: placing third in the 2014 Peak Performance Project, and winning rock recording of the year at the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards for their first full length “where do we go from here”, which the Calgary Herald uhhh heralded as “(not) just the best Calgary album of the year, it’s the album of the year, period.” They rode this momentum through 2015 to NXNE, and across the pond to the UK’s Great Escape and Liverpool Sound City Music festivals. Another 12 songs came out across the Tiger Tail EP and their half of a split release with The Ashley Hundred. This was the last officially released music from the once prolific band until their successful release of their sophomore LP “Milk Mountain” with Vancouver record label File Under: Music in 2019. With the release of “Milk Mountain”, 36? hit the road for a staggering 8 months of touring. Coming home in the winter of 2020 to play Calgary Folk Fest’s Blockheater Festival, 36? was greeted with praise in local media outlets Beatroute and The Scene’s lists for “Albums of the Year”. On the heels of embarking on another 6 months of touring starting with a show at Boise, ID’s Treefort Music Festival the band tour plans were cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic and they instead retreated to their roots, bunkering down and creating new music.
Laura Hickli (Mohkínstsis/Calgary) is an internationally touring baroque pop songstress known for her dreamy, tightly-arranged soundscapes, exquisite vocals, evocative lyrics and her emotionally powerful performances. A classically trained pianist and member in several award-winning art-rock/post-punk bands including ‘36?’, Hickli’s latest material has struck a spellbinding balance of spectral intimacy and bombast explosivity. Described as ‘indomitable,’ Laura Hickli will shatter any expectations of the way a piano should be played, a voice should be lifted, or a life should be lived.