From Canadian Beats:

On the heels of the single “Heaven Ain’t A Lonely Road,” Youngtree & The Blooms are sharing “Waiting For Us (Let’s Make The Time For It),” the second preview of the band’s eponymous album due out Sept. 23.

“Waiting For Us” is a lush, heart-swelling folk rock number, featuring back-up vocals by Hey Rosetta!’s Mara Pellerin. That band’s bassist Josh Ward also appears on the track. They help add the necessary flourishes to a song that Peter Youngtree describes as coming from a place of honesty, as if conveying it all to a friend who knows everything about you.

The concept of “friendspeak” is something Youngtree actually picked up from Gord Downie. During an interview, the late Tragically Hip singer stated, “If you can be comfortable enough to write a song as though you were talking to a friend, then that friend would sort of know exactly what you're saying all the time. Like you and your best friend, you don't even have to make sense – you have your own friendspeak."

Youngtree explains further, “Gord Downie was a very early influencer for me. I used to sit with Tragically Hip CDs and have the lyric books open reading along, even back when I was about nine years old. I'd rewrite them and try to understand them. They were poetic and often enigmatic, and I loved them all the more for that.”

Additional bio info:

Based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Youngtree & The Blooms are a fun, tight, hard-working band who can be counted on to liven up rooms and create pin-drop moments in equal measure. They’ve drawn comparisons to “late ‘60s Dylan and Gram Parsons” (Exclaim!) but labels fit them loosely, as their musical influences range from Patsy Cline to Wilco. It’s all there on the band’s new self-titled album, Youngtree & The Blooms, a nine-song collection that establishes front man Peter Youngtree as one of the most engaging new voices within the Americana scene.

In 2021, between lockdown orders, Youngtree & The Blooms began laying down material for Youngtree & The Blooms with co-producer Mark Feener. Building on the themes present on the band’s previous album Musical Chairs, the songs on Youngtree & The Blooms explore notions of individuality, personal transformation, universal love and dark fantasy, while taking more chances musically with genre-bending instrumentation and arrangements.

Youngtree’s work has earned him the Ron Hynes SOCAN Songwriter of the Year award, a recent guest appearance with the John Prine Band, and multiple MusicNL awards. That streak is sure to continue with Youngtree & The Blooms, an album that shows the band truly hitting their stride after years of uncertainty.