Kara-Lis Coverdale shares new single ‘Offload Flip’
KARA-LIS COVERDALE SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘OFFLOAD FLIP’
FIRST NEW ALBUM IN EIGHT YEARS FROM WHERE YOU CAME, OUT THIS FRIDAY 9 MAY VIA SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
“One of the most exciting composers in North America”
The Guardian
“A masterful composer”
Resident Advisor
“On her extraordinary new record, [Coverdale] creates rich, electroacoustic compositions that capture the ever-shifting currents of existence”
The Skinny
“[From Where You Came] is immersive and beautifully disorienting”
Uncut
“[Kara-Lis Coverdale] conjures a whole other world”
NPR’s All Songs Considered, Most Anticipated Spring Albums
Listen to ‘Offload Flip’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8WIHQfdZk
Listen to Kara-Lis’ NTS show from yesterday here:
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/kara-lis-coverdale-5th-may-2025
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Kara-Lis Coverdale today presents ‘Offload Flip’, the final single from her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came, out this Friday, 9 May, via Smalltown Supersound. It follows singles ‘Daze’ and ‘Freedom’.
‘Offload Flip’ is an ecstatic and cathartic sample-based track composed using the Fairlight CMI, displaying new dimensions of Coverdale’s refined sound.
Coverdale says of the track:
“An alien goes to the social club to dance and discovers a messy haired, high temperature, energy swish release.”
Over the bank holiday weekend Kara-Lis made her return to NTS, which you can listen to here.
Speaking directly to the rootlessness and alienation of modernity while processing the thrill and pain of being alive, From Where You Came is a dynamic and sublime work. Drawing together 19th century programmatic music, mid-’70s instrumental modalism, and her distinctively colourful and multi-dimensional approach to composition, she conducts emotional resonance like currents of charge, hard-wiring the purely felt into electronic signals with ecological sensitivity.
Though written and recorded across several continents, including at the GRM Studio in Paris and the Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, From Where You Came was completed in rural Ontario, Canada. Featuring contributions from multidisciplinary sound artist and cellist Anne Bourne and GRAMMY award winning trombonist Kalia Vandever, the album’s eleven expansive yet condensed compositions incorporate strings, woodwind, brass, keys, software and modular synthesis.
Born in Burlington, Canada and of Estonian heritage, From Where You Came is Coverdale’s first major new work since Grafts (2017), Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases), and A 480 (2014, Constellation Tatsu). Coverdale has performed concert halls, clubs, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia headlining and touring with Big Thief, Caribou, Gagaku Ensemble and Floating Points (including as a part of his Promises ensemble at The Hollywood Bowl in LA). She has previously collaborated with with Actress, Yasuaki Shimizu, Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk and has created compositions for film, theatre, dance, symphonic instrumentation, and installation, including Cello Octet Amsterdam, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Vanemuine Theatre, NYC Contemporaneous Ensemble and Ludens Choir, with pipe organ a connective tissue throughout much of her work.
Last month, Coverdale announced a handful of live dates and festival appearances, including a New York show on 15 Sep at Le Poisson Rouge. More live dates and festival appearances will be announced in the coming weeks.
Pre-order From Where You Came here:
https://lnk.to/from-where-you-came
Photo credit: Norman Wong
High-res images can be found here
Kara-Lis Coverdale live dates:
13 Jun – Toronto, ON @ 918 Bathurst
20 Jun – Calgary, AB @ Central United Church (Sled Island Music & Arts Festival)
30 Jun – Montreal, QC @ Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus (Suoni Per il Popolo) ^
15 Sep – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
^ = Organ set
From Where You Came tracklist:
1. Eternity
2. Flickers in the Air of Night
3. The Placid Illusion
4. Daze
5. Coming Around
6. Problem of No Name
7. Freedom
8. Offload Flip
9. Habitat
10. Equal Exchange
11. The Ceremonial Entrance of Colour