Bye Parula have released I don’t know, the second single from their upcoming album Something Out Of Nothing, due June 5 via Secret City Records. The Montreal trio shared the track this week alongside details of the record and a run of shows across Canada and the UK.
The new song arrives as a counterpart to KISSBURN, which the band released earlier in the rollout. Bassist and singer Loïc Calatayud-Sola said the two tracks were written during the same early sessions and approach the same dynamic from different perspectives. One follows a character leaning into obsession, the other answers from the receiving end, where that attention lands as both absurd and reciprocated.
KISSBURN has already moved beyond the usual early-single cycle. It passed 300,000 streams on Spotify within a month, picked up airplay in the United States, and entered the SubModern Top 200 Singles chart. The band’s 2023 track Still Got the Spirit continues to reach a national audience through its placement as the opening theme for CBC Radio One’s Q with Tom Power, giving the group a daily presence that has outlasted its initial release.
Something Out Of Nothing was produced by Robbie Kuster and mixed by Warren Spicer, both of whom worked on the band’s 2023 debut I. The new album brings in additional collaborators including Elisapie, Adèle Trottier-Rivard of Bibi Club, Morgan Moore, and François Lafontaine of Karkwa. The core trio, Calatayud-Sola, guitarist Sebastián Riquelme, and drummer Sergio D’Isanto, developed the material after several years of writing and performing together following their first recordings during the pandemic.
The band formed in Montreal after each member arrived from a different country, France, Chile, and Italy. Early sessions were built through remote demo exchanges before shifting to in-person rehearsals outside Trois-Rivières, where the group established a shared approach that carried into their debut and now into the new record.
Bye Parula will play London’s The Lower Third on June 2 before returning to Canada for a series of summer festival appearances, including Festival d’été de Québec and Hillside Festival. They also open for Said the Whale at a sold-out show in Toronto on April 18. An album launch show is scheduled for June 11 at La Sala Rossa in Montreal.
Photo – Marc-André Dupaul
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