Toronto-based, JUNO-nominated artist DENIELLE BASSELS releases her first single “Lighthouse,” from her upcoming third album It Goes Like This, slated for release in February 2025. Following her highly-acclaimed, JUNO-nominated Little Bit a’ Love, the new album promises a daring, imaginative journey – think Ella Fitzgerald’s grace clashing with Moby Dick’s epic narrative, or Nina Simone’s intensity encountering 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. “Lighthouse” is out now, on all major platforms. For more information please visit any of the links below or Bassels’s website.
From a husky whisper to a full-on scream, and through that cycle again, “Lighthouse” builds to a wildly frenetic peak of interpolated piano (by Ewen Farncombe) and violin (by Drew Jurecka) solos, reflecting the intense internal turmoil in Bassels’s soul. As Leonard Cohen said in “Closing Time,” “The whole damn place goes crazy twice.”
“‘Lighthouse’ is a wild, rollicking blend of jazz, infused with Django Reinhardt influences, cinematic grandeur, and steampunk energy,” says Bassels. “It plunges listeners into a tumultuous sea of sound, capturing the internal struggles and chaos within. From its eerie opening, the track propels you into an epic musical clash.”
Written and arranged by Bassels, with strings arranged by Jurecka, Lighthouse is a vivid prelude to her upcoming album, It Goes Like This.