Clea Roddick

ABOUT CLEA

True to her word, Clea Roddick has delivered the second EP in her promised series of four. "Songs of the Year: Vol. 2" is awake as the new growth sprouting from a recently barren Canadian landscape. "Revolving Doors" opens the EP with what could be the strongest yet of Clea's characteristic saucy ponderings and quirky folk pop productions. "Birds Come Back" (featuring Noel Johnson) and "The Sky Is Green" are simple sentiments kept pure by their sparse treatments of acoustic piano and guitar graced with light pollen dusting of harmonies and quirky strings. "Songs of the Year: Vol. 2" was written and recorded with Clea's collaborator and co-producer Craig Newnes in one month at their studio abode.

Her previous EP, "Songs of the Year: Vol. 1" unveiled the series concept and held songs about Chickadees, bright stars in the night sky, trusting your neighbours, sundogs and a love affair with a bush pilot. She recorded it with a cast of Calgary talent, her band mates, musicians from Vancouver that were spending the night on the way home from Ontario, and her neighbour. It was added to over 200 college and independent radio stations and reached #17 on Earshot for the month of January.

Dubbed "where street meets book," Clea grew up on an off-the-grid ranch in northern Alberta and her musical roots vary from beginning as an accordion-wielding teen in her family's blues band, to studying music in college, to fronting a rock collective. The new "Songs of the Year" EP series comes as a follow up to her 2009 debut release "Rollerskate" which was well supported by independent and college radio across North America (charting at #1 on NYC's M3 Radio for five weeks and featured on MTV's "The Real World").

Press & Reviews

“...makes you want to curl up with your favourite blanket and hot drink on a cold day and get up and dance around in your pajamas all at the same time... effortless lyrics that won't leave your head”
- Em Music

“There’s a lovely quirky vulnerable quality to Clea Roddick’s voice... the cool bends helps soothe the “savage beast” within.
- Cheryl Catherine Smith, Raised on Indie

“A sound that cannot be captured with words...
...not one throwaway lyric to be heard”
- Mary-Lynn McEwen, FFWD

CONTACT

Press - Joelle May: Joelle@modmaypromotions.com

Booking - Craig Newnes: craig@thestationrecording.com

Email Clea: clea@clearoddick.com

YouTube: youtube.com/clearoddick

Twitter: twitter.com/clearoddick

Facebook: facebook.com/clearoddick#

ReverbNation: reverbnation.com/clearoddick

Myspace: myspace.com/clearoddick

SONGS OF THE YEAR: VOL. 1

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