RACHEL BOBBITT NEW EP ‘THE CEILING COULD COLLAPSE’ OUT TODAY VIA FANTASY

TOUR DATES WITH MEN I TRUST AND BAD BAD HATS

“Striking… Poignant” –NPR

“Rachel Bobbitt’s tender, shimmering voice has the capacity to carry a massive weight of emotion — a weapon she wields very carefully.” –Consequence

“Rachel Bobbitt’s latest collection is a steady hand held out in a shaky, patriarchal world” –CBC

“A distillation of the enormous and unutterable.” –Exclaim

Emerging Toronto-based artist Rachel Bobbitt releases her excellent new EP The Ceiling Could Collapse today via Fantasy Records. The EP centers on the cycles of life and how we find meaning in extremes: pain, joy, wonder, love.

The result is a remarkable collection of songs that introduces a striking new talent. The EP’s singles “More,” “Watch and See,” “What About The Kids” and “Gemini Ties, showcase Bobbitt’s songwriting prowess.

LISTEN TO THE CEILING COULD COLLAPSE

The Ceiling Could Collapse, which Bobbitt co-produced with Justice Der and was mixed by GRAMMY-nominee Jorge Elbrecht, was a long time coming. Bobbitt made a name for herself on Vine as a teenager, uploading covers of pop hits and all-time classics to the now-defunct social media site. As her profile rose, Bobbitt found herself overwhelmed rather than inspired. “It was exciting to be doing what I loved, but it was difficult to be observed by that many people at that age where I simultaneously wanted to just shut myself in,” she says. “I’m grateful it ended when it did, because it gave me time to step back and think about what I wanted to create for myself.” She soon found herself at a jazz program, before leaving it during the pandemic to focus on her own music.

“Every woman I’ve ever talked to is in some amount of pain almost all the time,” she says. “That could be physical pain, emotional pain, familial pain, but it’s there in cycles.” In addition to music, Bobbitt draws those same feelings from horror films—and pulled the title to this EP while reading the script to 2018’s Hereditary. A deleted scene offered a revelation: “We need to accept that we can’t have our minds fixated on all these things that could happen, and we need to move on—but also the ceiling could just collapse,” Bobbitt says and laughs. More than unpredictability, it’s the endless repetition of life that suggests both things are true, that there’s no reason to worry and something terrible is about to happen. The ceiling collapse may be inescapable, but once it’s gone, there’s just more room for the sunrise to peek through.

Bobbitt, who just wrapped shows with  Indigo De Souza and Sunflower Bean, has upcoming dates supporting  Men I Trust and Bad Bad Hats along with her own headline show in Toronto on August 9th. All dates below.

TOUR DATES:
7/23 – Barrie, ON, Canada @ Meridian Place Amphitheater (Open Air Dunlop)
8/4 – Woodstock, NY @ Colony *
8/6 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge ~
8/7 – S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom *
8/9 – Toronto, ON, Canada @ The Drake Underground – Headline Show
* w/ Men I Trust
~ w/ Bad Bad Hats

Life runs in rhythmic loops, from the endless rotations of the earth to the running of tides and yearly rebirth of spring. Rachel Bobbitt knows that the bottom of those cycles can feel pretty chaotic. “Every woman I’ve ever talked to is in some amount of pain almost all the time,” the emerging singer-songwriter says. “That could be physical pain, emotional pain, familial pain, but it’s there in cycles.” On her piercing and profound new EP, The Ceiling Could Collapse, Bobbitt picks through the dizzying rubble of folk and indie rock for moments of resonant emotion and frames them in heartbreaking lyrics and openhearted expanses.

After refining the six songs of The Ceiling Could Collapse on her own, Bobbitt brought together collaborator and co-producer Justice Der and drummer Stephen Bennett to record the EP at Bennett’s studio in Brampton, Ontario. The trio spent a week and a half cracking open Bobbitt’s compositions, leaving space to experiment on different vocal takes and sonic palettes. Throughout the EP, Bobbitt and Der’s arrangements strike into the deep waters of Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, and Big Thief, and Grammy-nominated mixer Jorge Elbrecht rounds everything to a glacial shine.

Photo: Paige Paton

Track list:
1. More
2. Watch and See
3. Gemini Ties
4. Bandages
5. What About The Kids
6. For Keeps

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