BRADEN LAM’S DEBUT LP, THE CLOUDMAKER’S CRY, OUT APRIL 11
From the press release:
Ferociously bowed fiddle lurks underneath anxious climate fears in the urgent, driving “Hurricane Season”, the fourth and final single from Braden Lam's debut LP The Cloudmaker's Cry, due April 11, 2025. The new track follows album singles “Beautiful Neighbourhoods”, which climbed to #7 on the CBC Music Top 20, “Highway Jesus”, and “Wide Open”, a duet with Vancouver’s Michaela Slinger. The celebrated Nova Scotia songwriter has also been recently named as one of 8 semi-finalists in SiriusXM’s 2025 ‘Top of the Country’.
Showcasing new depths to his roots-Americana sound and a knack for expressing observations universally, Lam takes his lived experience through a natural disaster and closely examines the human nature of desire and envy in “Hurricane Season”.
“This song was born during Hurricane Fiona, an intense post-tropical cyclone that hit the East coast of Canada in September of 2022. I was on tour in Europe and following closely with the news and social media buzz back home. First the toilet paper and chip aisles get cleared out at the grocery stores, then school and work gets cancelled, then the power goes out and everyone’s collective anxieties feed into each other online until the last phones die and the internet quietly waits for the storm to pass.”
“I’ve experienced my share of hurricane seasons in the past decade of living in Halifax, they’re no joke, and being away from my loved ones during this one gave me a new perspective to explore comparisons between the hurricane and the internal struggles we all face. The song begins by recognizing how connected we all are to each other, to the universe, to nature and all of its mood swings. No one at birth is marked safe from dealing with their mental health, or addiction, or a search for meaning, and at the same time no one is ever alone through these storms of life.”
In another collaboration with director Griffin O’Toole, the pair continue to build on a world of nostalgia and surrealism viewers have come to expect from previous music videos such as “Wide Open” that features a larger-than-life cowboy hat riding on a pickup truck. Not an easy act to follow, yet “Hurricane Season” plays perfectly into this primary vision, bringing us from Atlantic Canada to the most unlikely of places - the middle of the Arizona desert.
“I’m running from a hurricane that has destroyed my home in the beginning, but no matter where I go, destruction still follows in my path. I slowly realize that this is my own doing, the storm I am trying to outrun is inside of me, and in order to heal and find what I’m longing for, I have to go back and face it.”
“If we took better care of ourselves and our environment, maybe the world would be less angry at us all the time”
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