Zoon Shares New EP | New Apple Music Home Session | 'Big Pharma' EP Out Today, CA National Indigenous People's Day, via Paper Bag Records

Zoon Shares New EP Listen to Zoon's Apple Music Home Session ft. My Morning Jacket Cover + Stripped-Down Recordings from Debut Album, Bleached Wavves Big Pharma EP Out Today via Paper Bag Records In Celebration of Canadian National Indigenous People's Day

Photo Credit: Vanessa Heins LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Zoon - Big Pharma EP Purchase / Stream LISTEN & SHARE: Zoon - Apple Music Home Session Apple Music LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Zoon - "Astum" (ft. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson) Stream / YouTube LISTEN & SHARE: Zoon - Bleached Wavves LP Stream “One of the album’s most enchanting tracks, “Brokenhead,” is ruled by a wicked overdriven guitar riff, which has an acute sense of longing. The windy guitars and calming percussion make for a transcendent experience.”  - Paste  “Gorgeous debut album Bleached Wavves...” - The FADER "['Astum' is] a track that finds an equilibrium between pop’s elastic movements and shoegaze’s volatile rhythms. The song moves along gently, swaying with each sweetly sung word and doused in lite-psych vibrations." - Beats Per Minute "['Astum' is a] shimmery, densely-layered track that finds Monkman's voice floating over a delicate rhythm section and washes of aquatic guitar. - Exclaim! "'Astum' takes the tempo down a notch and provides some breathing room around Monkman’s wispy delivery and subtle melodies. There’s space for his thoughts to process, for the listener to absorb the song’s serious themes of addiction and the constant push/pull of the trauma that underlies the need to numb the pain." - Dominonated "While just as haunting and ethereal, Zoon’s take feels subtly darker, a slightly off-center recreation that nonetheless holds onto the despondent center of the track.”  - Under The Radar “Monkman’s frustrations and courageous spirit exude through spiking guitar riffs and monstrous distortion.”  - KEXP “The record is a true headtrip, perfect for a year in which shelter-in-place rules limited options for journeying and over the course of its ten songs, Monkman paints from an expansive sonic palette that still has a unified thrust to the material.” - Earshot - The Top 200 Albums of 2020 “Like much of Bleached Wavves, it's intricate and subtle, familiar yet inventive, and rich with layers of life and sound. Zoon's debut album is nothing short of remarkable.”  - Exclaim! “Zoongide'ewin's debut is a poised, poignant and profoundly moving symphony of sound”  - Dominionated “Bleached Wavves is the perfect name for a shoegaze album deeply evocative yet highly enigmatic in equal measure.”   - Apple Music “As we cross the halfway mark of 2020, it’s important to critically appraise the legitimate candidates for Album of the Year as promptly as possible. The debut album from Zoongide’ewin, released 19 June, sits squarely in that camp.”  - DecayFM “This is the My Bloody Valentine album people have been waiting for... Most bands would rightly settle for any comparison to MBV, even if the comparison is likely handed out too often. But BLEACHED WAVVES is a throughline beyond Shields’ work that’s pretty remarkable, the kind of album that deserves instant recognition and praise within the genre.”  - Merry Go Round Magazine (Bandcamp Pick of The Week) “artist Daniel Monkman whose self-professed 'moccasin-gaze' album “Bleached Wavves,” under his stage name Zoon, blends his Ojibwe roots with an alternative rock flavour.” - The Toronto Star “his renowned debut album, Bleached Wavves...sees Monkman merging his love of shoegaze with his Ojibway heritage and upbringing.” -  Indie88 “On this highly successful debut album, Monkman embraces his ancestors’ historic wound and heals it with a rich, oceanic, colourful, and life-saving soundscape, where he can finally spread his wings freely.”   - PanAm360 “Monkman covers a wide range of styles and moods in just half an hour, but it all ties into his message of healing and empowerment, along with a hint of nostalgic longing. He clearly has an abundance of ideas, and it'll be fascinating to see where he goes from here.”  - All Music Today, Zoon (Zoongide’ewin), the musical project fronted by Daniel Monkman, shares his brand new EP, Big Pharma, out today, Canadian National Indigenous People's Day, via Paper Bag Records. Zoon's new 5-track EP is notable for its collaborations and features, expressly highlighting the musician's adept ability to experiment and constantly defy musical categorization. On his new EP, Daniel wrote: "'Big Pharma' is about me trying to bring awareness about the pharmaceutical industry and their lies. I talk about how they destroyed my community of Selkirk Manitoba and many more small towns and cities. A whole generation completely changed in just a matter of five years, Families torn apart and loved ones lost to addiction and overdoses. Our treaty card ensures that our medical insurance is covered but a lot of the time the only medication that’s available for free is the stuff thats most addictive. I found this alarming and made me connect the dots linked to an underlying form on genocide happening right under our noses." The release of Big Pharma follows Zoon's critically acclaimed debut album, Bleached Wavves (which was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize in 2021). Recently, Zoon shared an Apple Music Home Session, featuring stripped-down versions of songs off Bleached Wavves and a cover of My Morning Jackets' "Sooner." The new session's description reads: "Recording with Michael Peter Olsen (who’s laid down strings for the likes of Drake, Arcade Fire, and k-os), Zoon remakes a pair of Bleached Wavves cuts—“Vibrant Colours” and “Light Prism”—as acoustic dream-pop hymns redolent of a coffeehouse Galaxie 500. But he still infuses them with just enough textural detail (shimmering strings and nature sounds on the former, noctural twang on the latter) to retain their essential otherworldly vibe." Zoon is also celebrating back-to-back Polaris Music Prize Nominations, noting that Sewn Back Together (Arts & Crafts) by OMBIIGIZI, the widely praised and celebrated project Daniel shares with Adam Sturgeon from Status/NonStatus, has been long-listed. ZOON LIVE ! with Fucked Up * with Low June 22: Calgary - Sled Island * July 6 & 7: Toronto - Great Hall ! July 15-17: Yellowknife - Folk on the Rocks  July 12: Sudbury - River & Sky Festival July 23: Montreal - Entrepôt  Aug 12: Mont Louis - La Pointe Sec  Aug 13: Gaspé - Centre Culturel Le Griffon  Aug 19: Santa Fe - SITE ZOON LINKS Instagram | Facebook | Spotify | Twitter