Basia Bulat's shimmering new album 'Basia's Palace' is out today!

Montreal-based artist Basia Bulat today released her lush and shimmering new album Basia’s Palace on vinyl and CD via Secret City Records. The most searching record of her career was co-produced by Bulat with frequent collaborator Mark Lawson (who worked with her on previous albums Tall Tall Shadow and The Garden), mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National), and features string arrangements by Grammy-nominated Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Metric, Alvvays). Following the support tour with Efterklang in January, Bulat also announces a full European tour including stops in Berlin, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Stockholm and more, kicking off on June 3rd, 2025. Tickets are on sale now. Click here.

The album includes gently sweeping new single “Daylight,” about which Bulat explains: “I wrote so much of this album in the middle of the night, when it felt like the world of dreams and the ‘real world’ were finding moments to meet. I realized how much I had separated the two and wanted to invite that space between them to get smaller. This song became a way to remind myself to ‘consciously’ invite that energy in more, and evolved into a meditation on showing compassion to yourself through exploring your dreams.”

The album already received praises from MOJO (). Previous singles “Disco Polo,” “Baby,” and “My Angel”arrived alongside interconnected music videos directed by Nora Rosenthal and earned great press from Paste,FLOOD Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, The Needle Drop, No Depression, BBC Radio 6 (UK), Indie 88 (CA) and more. Bulat–a three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee– is currently on her North American tour. The itinerary is below.

Watch the video for 'Baby' here

The property at the heart of Basia’s Palace is at once Bulat’s apartment, her jam-space, and the inside of her head. It is a place festooned with love and memory, and bad wiring; it’s a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night–a time that’s suited to video games and dusty old records, when you sit in all that richness and take in all the mess we inherit. Basia’s Palace got its start in 2022. A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4. It brought to mind anecdotes Bulat had heard about Leonard Cohen—how he used to do his best writing at three or four a.m., before his kids woke up, when he’d sit and toy with his Casio’s presets. Now it was Bulat sneaking down to play RPGs or to make music on her MacBook, listening for the spirit-world at a time when the veil felt thinnest. The songs she was creating didn’t feel like anything she had recorded before—MIDI soundscapes that floated and gleamed, like hidden levels above (or below) the action. And as she looked around at the relics and heirlooms of life, she found herself thinking about her memories differently, too, and finding new ways of understanding all that happened in her life across the years

Basia’s Palace is like a time-travel score, with Bulat akin to Chrono Trigger’s intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future. After years of releasing records where live performance came first—culminating in The Garden, which reimagined some of her best-loved songs with help from a string quartet—the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano or guitar. She found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes–and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs. Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance. This is the truest location of Basia’s Palace: not just the Mile End jam-space where she recorded much of this LP; not just her home, her family, or her searching spirit. But the moment itself—the one that happens on-stage, or in the instant of creation—when a song leaves Basia’s heart and leaps onto her lips.

Basia Bulat Tour Dates:

• 3/7 - Ottawa - NAC
• 3/14 - Montreal, QC - Théâtre Fairmount
• 3/15 - Sherbrooke, QC - La Petite Boîte Noire
• 3/19 - Boston, MA - City Winery
• 3/20 - New York City, NY - Joe's Pub
• 3/21 - Washington, DC - Pearl Street Warehouse
• 3/22 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
• 3/28 - Quebec City - Théâtre Petit Champlain
• 4/2 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
• 4/3 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
• 4/4 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
• 4/5 - Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium
• 4/8 - Burnstown - Neat Cafe
• 4/30 - Vancouver, BC - Hollywood Theatre
• 5/2 - Seattle, WA - Triple Door
• 5/3 - Portland, OR - Mission Theater
• 5/5 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
• 5/7 - Los Angeles, CA - The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
• 5/22 - Toronto, ON - The Great Hall
• 5/23 - London, ON - Aeolian Hall
• 6/03 - Oslo, NO – Parkteatret
• 6/4 - 6/6 - Orillia, ON - Mariposa Folk Festival
• 6/4 - Stockholm, SE - Debaser
• 6/5 - Gothenburg, SE - Nefertiti
• 6/6 - Lund, SE - Mejeriet
• 6/7 - Copenhagen, DK - Hotel Cecil
• 6/10 - Berlin, DE - Frannz Club
• 6/11 - Hamburg, DE - Nochtwache
• 6/13 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso, small hall
• 6/14 - Cologne, DE - Artheater
• 6/15 - Paris, FR - Supersonic Records
• 6/17 - London, UK - Omeara
• 6/18 - Bristol, UK - Rough Trade
• 6/19 - Manchester, UK - YES Basement Room
• 6/21 - Glasgow, UK - Nice n Sleazy
• 12/13 - Saint-Casimir, QC - Les Grands Bois