St.Arnaud Shares "Loving" | 'Love and the Front Lawn' Out 29th April via Fierce Panda

Toronto, ON- March 25 2022-Today St.Arnaud shares “Loving”, the third single to be taken from his forthcoming album Love and the Front Lawn. Set for release via Fierce Panda on April 29th, Love and the Front Lawn was produced by Graham Lessard (Basia Bulat, Timber Timbre, Stars). “Loving” is available now on all music services.

Listen/ Share: St.Arnaud “Loving”

“I’m really proud of this one,” explains Ian St.Arnaud. “I wanted to take my songwriting in a more personal, story-telling direction. Once the backdrop was set with the syrupy-sweet chorus, I felt like I could colour and create contrast with scenes from my day-to-day life, including the (unfortunately true) August morning, waking up to find a stranger’s defecation by my car door.”

Edmonton indie-pop songster St.Arnaud is a little bit of everywhere to everyone. Working alongside his brother and fellow creative, the YouTube animator GingerPale, St.Arnaud found a loving home on YouTube and Spotify with legions of eager listeners and was swept up in dozens of tour dates across Canada and the USA. His debut album, The Cost of Living, was a DIY tour-de-force of fun-loving melodies overlaying themes of death, loss, and anxiety. Love and the Front Lawn continues the sad lyrics/happy melodies framework but with a new instrumental palette.

Moving through self-doubt, loving, leaving and being left, and anxiously wasting away through some of the best years of one’s life, Love and the Front Lawn is the catchiest self-reminder to be kinder to yourself, to let go and try to enjoy where you are. Producer Graham Lessard helped bring out the texture and dark corners of the songs through slippery slide guitar and keyboards throughout. Harkening back to 60s protest folk and 70s early indie, Ian’s beaming, clever lyrics belay the more cerebral themes of the songs. Simply orchestrated and impeccably composed, St.Arnaud takes head-on themes of death, loss and resilience with sardonic humour and heart-on-the-sleeve, puppy-love honesty.

St.Arnaud has performed with Basia Bulat, Reuben and the Dark, and Lucy Rose among countless others and has performed at stages across the world including at Reeperbahn, New Colossus Festival, FOCUS Wales, and Tallinn Music Week.

Upcoming Tour Dates

• March 31 - BIG Winter Classic, Calgary, AB - tickets
• April 2 – Winterruption, Edmonton, AB
• Oct 20-22 Left of the Dial, Rotterdam, NL