Ouri – Daisy Cutter
Today, Montreal-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Ouri releases her new album Daisy Cutter.
Coinciding with the release, Ouri unveils the music video for “Blush,” a self-directed and edited visual shot by Maiko that finds her speeding through Paris at dusk in the backseat of a convertible.
Throughout Daisy Cutter, Ouri builds a world out of a radical experimentation with desire, discipline, and intimacy. What began as a practice of letting everything flow without judgment grew into a study of freedom’s contradictions: the pull between safety and risk, commitment and release, control and surrender. The album’s title, Daisy Cutter, carries this duality. Borrowed from a bomb, devastating and absolute, it also evokes the delicate act of trimming a flower. Ouri keeps both in play, moving between sweeping force and precise gestures. Out of this tension arises music that feels both intimate and insurgent.
The new album includes recently released singles “Paris” feat. Oli XL, album title track “Daisy Cutter,” and “Behave!” featuring Charlotte Day Wilson.
Ouri engineers, mixes, and masters everything herself, shaping tactile and often nocturnal sounds that shift just as they seem to settle. Across the album Ouri places herself within a community that feels at once real and imagined. Around her, friends and collaborators assemble as comrades, an underground militia intent on cultivating a future sound. Longtime allies including Mobilegirl, Oli XL, Bby Eco, Charlotte Day Wilson, Bamo Yendé, Cecil Believe, Duncan Hood, Jonah Yano, Sea Oleena and Cowboy Lansky join Ouri across the album, their contributions recorded in borrowed spaces, apartments, and other non-studio settings, exploring various ways of being in the world that allow for the contradictions of fortification and desire.
To celebrate the album release Ouri is performing a headline show in her hometown of Montreal tonight followed by a performance in Toronto tomorrow. Ouri is also announcing a string of tour dates across the UK and Europe this winter beginning in London December 2nd and continuing on to Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and more.
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