Canadian folk-pop artist Shaina Hayes announces new album 'Take The Case Of A Rose' out November 13th + releases new single "Tempest"
Canadian singer-songwriter Shaina Hayes announces her deeply anticipated third album ‘Take the Case of a Rose’, arriving November 13th via Bonsound. Marking the announcement is the release of its captivating new single, "Tempest", a song that captures the uneasy calm before emotional upheaval and offers another glimpse into her most personal and expansive work to date.
Written around the quiet sensation of feeling anxiety gathering just beneath the surface, "Tempest" unfolds with remarkable patience. Like distant storm clouds slowly darkening the horizon, the song gradually builds through intertwined acoustic guitars, instinctive percussion and her unmistakably luminous vocal performance, balancing fragility with quiet resolve.
Produced alongside her longtime collaborators Francis Ledoux and David Marchand, whose musical partnership has become integral to her evolving sound, "Tempest" demonstrates the restrained beauty that has earned her growing acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Delicate arrangements leave space for every emotional shift, allowing the song to breathe naturally as tension ebbs and flows beneath its graceful surface.
The single serves as a fitting introduction to ‘Take the Case of a Rose’, an album shaped by a period of profound personal transformation. Across ten songs, she reflects on resilience, legacy, change and the often-unnoticed moments that quietly redefine a life.
Written between seasons of personal change and inspired by the rhythms of rural life, the record explores the delicate balance between holding on and letting go. Songs such as "Make You New" contemplate time as a patient force for healing, while "Steady" searches for composure amid uncertainty. The album's exclusive SANCTUM Suite, available on physical editions, expands those themes further through an ambitious sequence that moves with cinematic scale while remaining emotionally intimate.
Musically, ‘Take the Case of a Rose’ broadens Hayes' already distinctive palette without sacrificing the warmth that defines her songwriting. Acoustic guitars, upright piano, strings and understated percussion create richly textured arrangements that feel simultaneously expansive and deeply personal. Alongside trusted collaborators Ledoux and Marchand, Hayes also welcomes contributions from Brad Barr, Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Lysandre Ménard and Arielle Soucy, each adding subtle colours to an album that never loses sight of its emotional centre.
Since emerging with her acclaimed 2022 debut ‘to coax a waltz’, Shaina Hayes has established herself as one of Canada's most compelling contemporary songwriters, blending folk-pop elegance with alt-country warmth and lyrical precision. Her 2024 follow-up, ‘Kindergarten Heart’, expanded her musical horizons while earning praise for its emotional depth and understated confidence, helping build an international audience that has seen her share stages with artists including The War on Drugs, The Barr Brothers and Elisapie.
Away from touring, she continues to operate her vegetable farm in Shigawake, Quebec, where the steady rhythms of working the land remain inseparable from her creative life. That dual existence of balancing the demands of music with the patience of agriculture continues to shape her songwriting, grounding each composition in an authenticity that feels increasingly rare.
With ‘Take the Case of a Rose’, Shaina Hayes reaches a new level of artistic confidence. It’s an album that understands transformation rarely arrives with spectacle; instead, it unfolds gradually, through quiet resilience, careful observation and the courage to embrace whatever comes next.
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