Blunk Chunks – the project of Toronto artist Caitlin Wolfley-O'Brien – have announced their debut album, Butterfly legend. It is scheduled to be released on April 12 via Telephone Explosion. Today's announcement comes with the release of new single “Psyche's Flight,” which features drummer Duncan Hood and keyboardist Nick Nausbaum – Woelfle-O'Brien's bandmates in Jaunt – as well as percussionist Ed Squires, saxophonist Karen Ng, and keyboardist Diego Gaeta. Check it out below.
“‘Psyche’s Flight’ is a simple song about feeling better and being kind to yourself,” Woelfle-O'Brien explained in a statement. “It was February, I had lost my father a few months earlier, and I had the opportunity to participate in an artist residency at a permaculture farm in Mexico. I had escaped the Ontario winter and felt the warm sun on me for the first time in ages. I wrote this song a week after Staying on the rooftop patio. Finally I don't feel depressed anymore, and I think it has to do with that feeling of liberation and hope you get when you travel to a new and beautiful place. On a production level, I wanted the instruments to be upbeat and bright. As if you were immersed in a landscape Beautiful and fresh for the first time.Duncan's drumming really spiced things up and Karen's saxophone harmonies gave the layers of euphoria I was looking for.
Recorded at Patchwork Sound studio, Butterfly legend Also includes contributions from studio head David Plowman, co-producer Nathan Burley, as well as members of the Queer Songbook Orchestra, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bernice, Mother Tongues, and more. “Getting together with people to create something is even more special, because as you get older, you know what it's like to be home alone, to be a little lost and isolated, wondering where your friends are,” Wolfley-O'Brien said. “Having multiple people lift me up when I can't lift myself up is a really beautiful part of the Blunt Chunks project.”
In 2022, Blunt Chunks released their self-titled EP, which made our Best EPs of 2022 list.
Butterfly legend Cover artwork:
Butterfly legend Song list:
1. Fill my cup
2. The journey of the soul
3. High hopes
4. Forgetting
5. Every day
6. You are my love
7. Breathe
8. Top
9. It can't be the end
