Pentimento, the critically acclaimed new album by Carson McHone, is out today. In full, the album is a feast of musical and metatextual delight, and in that spirit McHone is celebrating the release of Pentimento with a new music video for “September Song” as well as additional North American tour dates, which begin tonight with a multi-disciplinary performance at the In the Soil Arts Festival in St. Catherines, Ontario. Listen to Pentimento wherever you stream music, and pick up a copy of the album on CD or LP from the Merge store or Carson McHone’s webstore.

Featuring a lovingly prepared meal by Lauren Allen, the McHone-directed video for “September Song” renders the familial space in which Pentimento bloomed to life in intimate detail. Together with previously released videos for “Winter Breaking,” “Downhill,” and “Idiom,” they comprise a polyptych detailing the act of creation in exquisite detail. Here, what’s crafted, the meal, nourishes and brings people together. Like art. Like song. 

What critics are saying about Pentimento:

“Multi-layered, career defining.” —Uncut Album of the Month (9/10)

“Beautifully fashioned from an expansive folk palette, but coloured and graffiti’d by outbreaks of feral noise, homemade percussion, and deliberately wonky fiddles. Some of it is finely constructed, at other times it’s pure spontaneity.” —Uncut Album of the Month (9/10)

“Carson McHone’s dazzling Pentimento pursues higher truths in the real world.” —No Depression

“Mixing the dreamy and the visceral with masterful ease, McHone crafts vivid scenes that resonate beyond their literal dimensions.” —No Depression

“A career-defining leap forward . . . Pentimento reveals a level of sophistication that shows there are no real limits to McHone’s ambition.” —KLOF

“Contemplative folk and 70s rock are blended with interludes, readings, and natural sounds. McHone’s elegant voice effortlessly tying the ambitious whole together.” —Shindig

“Personal, powerful and profound, Pentimento is an extraordinarily mature project from McHone . . . a giant leap forward by an artist who has truly broadened her horizons with this record.” —Lonesome Highway

“Intriguing, detailed . . . McHone’s music oozes with inventiveness and talent.” —Spill Magazine

With Pentimento’s release come more opportunities to experience it live. Carson McHone’s previously announced run of US and Canadian tour dates with Daniel Romano’s Outfit has expanded with the addition of shows in St. Louis, Richmond, Nashville, and Pelham, Ontario. Tickets are on sale now.

Carson McHone on tour:

Sep 12 St. Catherines, ON – In the Soil Arts Festival (Pentimento performance & listening party)
Sep 15 Regina, SK – The Exchange
Sep 15 Winnipeg, MB – Sidestage
Sep 18 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
Sep 19 St. Louis, MO – The Old Rock House
Sep 20 Bloomington, IN – Blockhouse Bar
Sep 21 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
Oct 01 Richmond, VA – Get Tight Lounge
Oct 04 Nashville, TN – Skinny Dennis
Dec 06 Pelham, ON – Old Pelham Town Hall