VIVEK SHRAYA SHARES NEW VIDEO ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES, NEW MODELS LP OUT TODAY
LISTEN TO NEW MODELS HERE
CANADIAN TOUR CONTINUES TODAY - MORE DATES ANNOUNCED // TICKETS HERE
Photo Credit: Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Today, Vivek Shraya releases her latest album, New Models via Twin Fang Records. To help celebrate the occasion, the multi-hyphenate artist is also sharing the new video for “I Don’t Know Where I’m Going”. On the track, Shraya says, “My baseline mood is existential so a song where I repeat ‘I don’t know where I’m going’ for three minutes is peak me! That said, in a time where I’ve been really trying to embrace the unknown and uncertainty, the real experiment here was to see if I could write something about feeling lost that sounds hopeful.”
WATCH / SHARE “I DON’T KNOW WHERE I’M GOING” HERE
MORE ABOUT VIVEK SHRAYA AND NEW MODELS
‘When I’m overcome with feeling / I have to break free from words and just sing.’ An inveterate writer, Vivek Shraya knows that fewer words can carry more weight. These first lines of her new album, New Models, serve as both a thesis to the transcendent sonic experience to come, as well as an invitation to leave the burden of self-assuredness at the door. Don’t overthink—just listen. Just feel.
New Models is “me grappling with the state of the world over the past four years and eventually realizing that language, particularly English, had become so contorted and weaponized that the only way I could grieve, rage, and find comfort was to let go of it,” says Shraya. “How do you express the horror and helplessness of witnessing progress being rapidly undone—in words—when all you want to do is scream or cry?”
Shraya has dedicated much of her impressive artistic career to incisively articulating culturally loaded issues. Whether through her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men (which Vanity Fair called “cultural rocket fuel”), her award-winning play-turned-CBC show, How To Fail As A Popstar, or her provocative visual art and installation work, Shraya has challenged the status quo by transcending her personal experiences into daring artworks. But it is music that first drew Shraya into the arts, and it’s on her 11th solo album, New Models, that Shraya redefines her musical trajectory with a bold display of boundary pushing done right.
TOUR DATES // TICKETS HERE
Oct 09 - Montréal, QC - Festival Phénomena - La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines
Nov 15 - Toronto, ON - Long Winter - Allan Gardens Children’s Conservatory
2026
Jan 21 - Victoria, BC - Metro Studio Theatre
Jan 22 - Winnipeg, MB - Winterruption WPG - Public Domain
Jan 23 - Saskatoon, SK - Winterruption YXE - Art Bar
Jan 24 - Edmonton, AB - Winterruption YEG - CKUA
Jan 30 - Calgary, AB - Jack Singer Concert Hall with Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra