Carson McHone is hitting the road next week, touring North America with Canadian indie rock luminary Julie Doiron. To celebrate the occasion, McHone is sharing a new music video for Pentimento standout “The Canvas,” shot in the desert in Far West Texas. Watch it below, and revisit Pentimento wherever you listen to music. The album is also available on CD and LP from the Merge store!

Carson McHone on “The Canvas:”

We shot this on a 16mm Bolex. It’s the first thing we ever filmed on that camera and we had no idea if the footage would turn out - we were just improvising. The camera was missing an eye piece so we went to the Dollar General in town and cut the nipple off of a plunger (unused!), and taped it to the camera -  most of the roll is just trying to figure out how to focus. The film then sat in the camera for five years and we forgot about it until it was unearthed and finally developed. When we finally saw it, it had this sort of beautifully organic awkwardness - I showed it to a friend, suggesting I might pull from it, and she said, “no way, you have to let it just play out as is!”, so that’s what you see. It’s footage from when Daniel and I first got together, and it’s from the time and place the song itself was written. In a way, it’s an artifact from the groundwork that became Pentimento.

Pentimento finds McHone on the frontier of her musical imagination, channeling motifs as diverse as guitar rock, pastoral folk, poetry, field recordings, visual art, memory,  family, and landscape into her most profound effort to date. Written in the Texas desert and recorded on the Canadian  coast, the album is a layered compilation examining life’s shifting circumstances and the disquiet of the world at large. 

Later this summer, McHone will bring Pentimento and the rest of her stunning catalog to the UK and EU for a string of headline dates, including a stop at the End of the Road festival. The tour will see her teaming with Max Kinghorn-Mills to build a touring ensemble featuring members of his own Hollow Hand Band, as well as three performances in which she, Kinghorn-Mills, and multi-disciplinary artist Fliss Horrocks will play as a trio. Tickets for all dates on either side of the pond are on sale now.

Carson McHone on tour:
Jun 22 Windsor, ON – Meteor *
Jun 23 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell's Eccentric Cafe *
Jun 24 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
Jun 25 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club *
Jun 26 Davenport, IA – Raccoon Motel *
Jun 27 Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck *
Jun 28 St. Louis, MO – The Sinkhole *
Jun 29 Nashville, TN – Cannery Hall *
Jul 02 Little Rock, AR – White Water Tavern +
Jul 07 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet's %
Jul 08 Los Angeles, CA – Permanent Records Roadhouse %
Jul 09 Ojai, CA – Ojai Deer Lodge %
Jul 10 San Francisco, CA – Kilowatt Bar %
Jul 11 Santa Cruz, CA – The Crepe Place %
Jul 13 Portland, OR – Turn! Turn! Turn!
Jul 15 Vancouver, BC – Green Auto
Jul 19 Dawson City, YT – Dawson City Music Festival
Jul 23 Edmonton, AB – The Aviary
Jul 27 Winnipeg, MB – Public Domain
Aug 25 London, UK – The Shacklewell Arms
Aug 27 Ermelo, NL – “In De Rimboe”
Aug 29 Twello, NL – Into the Mud 2026
Aug 30 Utrechrt, NL – Brewpub Kromme Haring
Sep 01 Guildford, UK – Star Inn
Sep 02 Sheffield, UK – Delicious Clam
Sep 03 Nottingham, UK – The Chapel Nottingham
Sep 04 Manchester, UK – Gulliver’s
Sep 05 – Tollard Royal, UK – End of the Road 2026
Sep 09 Nijmegen, NL – Thiemeloods
Sep 10 Groningen, NL – Vera

* w/ Julie Doiron
+ w/ Daniel Romano's Outfit
% w/ PEARL CHARLES