Rising Canadian alt-country artist TYSON RAY BORSBOOM shares “Let You Down” Ahead of These Days LP
On Tyson Ray Borsboom’s latest album These Days, the Vancouver-based singer/songwriter fully comes into his own, embracing the kind of country music that doesn’t shy away from hardship and loss, and everything else that makes us human. It’s been a steady evolution for the artist originally from Calgary, from releasing his debut EP in 2018 to building an audience across western Canada through shows with Field Guide, Kacy & Clayton and others, and more recently to packing venues both in Canada and the EU.
For These Days, Tyson teamed up with producer Phenix Warren (Wyatt C. Louis, The Dust Collectors) to make the album at Pocono House in Calgary with a band of seasoned vets who have also worked with Noeline Hofmann and Shred Kelly. Now able to reflect on the sessions, Tyson describes the final product as the seamless result of working with a dream team.
“I think Phenix really understands where I’m at as a songwriter. He heard how I was performing the songs live, and we talked a lot about how my favourite records sound. We pretty much recorded my vocals and guitar and then I let him run with it. He’d send me mixes, and apart from a few minor tweaks, they would be perfect.”
With the powerfully brooding title track to These Days added to rotation on SiriusXM North Americana and CBC Music’s Canadian Country channel, other standouts on the album such as the new single “Let You Down” are sure to get equal attention in due time.
With a 30-date tour of western Canada lined up to coincide with the release of These Days, it’s the start of what promises to be the wider world’s formal introduction to Tyson Ray Borsboom’s songwriting gifts and magnetic stage presence. Like the long drives across the Prairies that he’s intimately familiar with, his songs carry a sense of place. Along the way, they ask quiet questions we all carry: Are we enough; are we doing this right; did we take a wrong turn somewhere along the way?
Yet, These Days doesn’t try to solve those questions as much as sit with them, finding a kind of kinship in the shared weight of it all—a reminder that most of us are just limping our way through, doing the best we can.
