Shirley Hurt - Shirley Hurt
Whilst Shirley Hurt’s lyrical and structural ideas may have emerged on the road, the album was self-produced and recorded at Joseph Shabason (The War on Drugs)’s Aytche studio in Toronto’s West End. It was engineered by Nathan Vanderwielen and Chris Shannon (Bart), and Hurt enlisted collaborators Jason Bhabacharya, Nick Dourado, Patrick Lefler, and Harrison Forman to hone her vision. “I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with the songs un2l we returned to Toronto,” she recalls. “Joseph and I had been talking about working together a}er sending across some demos and Jason happened to recommend his studio at the exact same 2me, so everything came together naturally at that point.”
Whilst her most recent adventures may have seen Shirley Hurt bound for Texas as an official SXSW ar2st (hand-picked by Gorilla Vs Bear to perform at their own showcase), she currently resides in her na2ve Canada, more specifically rural Ontario, close to friends and family, and is already working on her second album. The 2es to lineage are interwoven in the fabric of the music. Hurt’s mother, ar2st Leala Hewak, ins2lled a lust for life and innate value of crea2vity in her from a young age as she explored the role of gallery owner, vintage jewellery show host, mid-century modern furniture expert, real estate agent, painter. Hurt’s father, a civil li2ga2on lawyer and new-wave obsessed music lover with an extensive vinyl collec2on, introduced Hurt to a wide-range of ar2sts at a young age such as Nina Hagen, Laurie Anderson, Tom Tom Club, and endless others.