Everly Lux – Talk Tales
Montreal-based artist Everly Lux weaves folk songwriting with experimental instrumentation, blending extended cello techniques and modular synth soundscapes into intimate, cinematic songs. Today, she announces her debut album, Talk Tales, due March 13, 2026, alongside the release of her new single and music video, “nature has a way to greet me.”
Eerie, dimensional, and quietly intense, Talk Tales unfolds through intricate lyrics, subtle dissonance, and stripped-down sentimentality. The album moves fluidly between folk, pop, and rock, offering a deeply immersive listening experience rooted in storytelling and atmosphere.
Alongside the album announcement, Lux shares her second single, nature has a way to greet me. A hypnotic spoken-word voyage, the track builds gradually, layering cello, piano, and synths over shifting guitar patterns that evoke American road trips, cowboy poetry, and timeless folk traditions. The song channels Lux’s “cowboy self,” drawing from American primitive guitar and West Coast folk.
“I wanted the song to be loose in time, to feel like a horse trotting, never quite the same rhythm twice, just like a trip or a relationship,” Lux explains. “It’s a song of reminiscing, and of the border between imaginary and real.” Spoken word has been a foundational influence on her work, with artists like Kae Tempest shaping her approach to voice and storytelling.
Following her 2023 EP Selfhood, Talk Tales spans 14 tracks, moving seamlessly from folk to pop to rock. Drawing from influences such as Aldous Harding, Björk, and Joanna Newsom, Lux blends folk traditions with experimental textures and electronic elements to create a listening experience that is both intimate and expansive. Atypical instrumentation, hypnotic patterns, and carefully layered arrangements give the album a sense of space and narrative, inviting listeners into Lux’s world in a way that is immersive, emotional, and genre-defying.
Much of Talk Tales was recorded at Studio B-12 as part of a residency with REDA. Lux gradually collected songs on tour, refining them over time. Collaborators, including harpist Coralie Gauthier, guest singer André Charles Thériault (of the band Laughing), and musicians Audréanne Fillion (cello), Bennett Dobni (synths), and Devon Bate (producer), brought their personalities to the record, shaping arrangements, interludes, and the final tracklist. Lux describes the album as “a massive piece of art, a picture of two years of my life. Quiet but loud. Intense but subtle.”
The album’s concept is rooted in storytelling as dialogue. “I often think of my songs as tales,” Lux explains. “I liked Talk Tales because of how it implied that tales are not just told but talked through, and shaped by each teller and listener.”
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