For Immediate Release

July 10, 2024

 

ODIE LEIGH'S DEBUT ALBUM, CARRIER PIGEON, OUT FRIDAY - STREAM/PURCHASE


NEW SONG AND VIDEO, "ALREADY (ON MY MIND)" STREAMING NOW -

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"CARRIER PIGEON TOUR" CONTINUES IN AUGUST THROUGH THE FALL

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New Orleans-bred, Detroit-based singer-songwriter Odie Leigh releases her infectious debut album this Friday with new song and companion video "Already (On My Mind)" out today.


"'Already (On My Mind)' is a reflection on the beginning of a relationship and the confusion that comes with it, I wanted the verses and chorus to almost feel like different songs," says Odie Leigh. "We kept the verses simple and driving to reflect the groundedness of being with another person and feeling secure and made the choruses lofty and vibrant to capture the feeling of the spiraling uncertainty that comes with a new relationship. 


"Also, I tried to sneak as much trumpet into this album as I could. There are a couple of songs that we recorded trumpet on but ended up taking it out and thankfully this isn’t one of them. I knew from the beginning that I wanted this track to feel full and fun and welcoming, and I think we accomplished that exactly."


LISTEN TO "ALREADY (ON MY MIND)"

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On Carrier Pigeon, Odie says:

“Standing in a bar in the French Quarter and dressed up like a clown, I invited the tourist I met the night before to come home with me. 'We’ve had a great night and I don’t want to spoil it,' he said, 'sometimes I try to get too much out of a good thing.'


"I agreed with him, our one evening had already turned into two and the rational thing to do would be to spend the rest of our Halloween weekend with friends, not a stranger from out of town. Fortunately, I am not always rational. The stranger stuck around.


"I wrote 'A Good Thing' the next day and the rest of the album in the year that followed. This whole project is just a play-by-play of me falling in Love.


"Songwriting has always been a means for me to get my thoughts out about real people and situations, and it’s scary how they then get to hear my raw, heat-of-the-moment thoughts about them later on. I’ll be writing all the things I wish I could say to a particular person and thinking 'I might as well just be throwing a message in a bottle into the ocean.' This album really reflects that concept. Every song is a specific moment, a captured feeling, something that needed to be said. It's called 'Carrier Pigeon' because this album is the means of delivery. 


"I’ve learned that happy songs are scarier to talk about than sad ones. Sadness is something to be fixed, happiness is something that can be taken away.”


Carrier Pigeon (Mom + Pop) was produced by producer/musician/engineer Derek Ted and Odie Leigh, and its release has been heralded since January with the memorable singles: "My Name On A T-Shirt," "Conversation Starter," “Either Way” and “No Doubt.To celebrate the album's release, Odie Leigh will continue her “Carrier Pigeon Tour” featuring an extensive run of headline shows this summer and fall highlighted by appearances in the UK as well as stops in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and more. She will also be performing at this year's Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA —see full routing below.


ODIE LEIGH

CARRIER PIGEON

(Mom + Pop)

Release Date: July 12, 2024

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Tracklist:

A Good Thing

Already (On My Mind)

Party Trick

Conversation Starter

No Doubt

Finer Things

Either Way

Common Denominator

Idiom

My Name on A T-Shirt


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ODIE LEIGH - TOUR 2024


JULY

26 - 28 - Calgary, Canada - Calgary Folk Music Festival


AUGUST

4 – Saint Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival *

9 – San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands *

24 – Edinburgh, UK – La Belle Angele

29-9/1 – Salisbury, UK – End of the Road Festival *

30 – Birmingham, UK – Moseley Folk Festival *


SEPTEMBER

4 – London, UK – Omeara

19 - Houston, TX - The Secret Group

20 - Austin, TX - Scoot Inn

21 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips

22 - Oklahoma City, OK - Beer City Music Hall

24 - Sante Fe, NM - Meow Wolf

26 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge

28 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre

30 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck


OCTOBER

1 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown

3 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon

4 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line

5 - Des Moines, IA - xBK

6 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall

8 - Columbus, OH - A&R Music Bar

10 - Indianapolis, IN - HI-FI Indianapolis

11 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway

12 - Memphis, TN - 1884 Lounge at Minglewood Hall

13 - Nashville, TN - 3rd & Lindsley


NOVEMBER

4 - Detroit, MI - El Club

5 - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall

6 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz PDB

8 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom

9 - Portland, ME Portland House of Music

10 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair

12 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall

13 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

15 - Albany, NY - Lark Hall

16 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church

17 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis

19 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater

20 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

22 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre

23 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

24 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle Music Hall


DECEMBER

3 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom

4 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Solana Beach

6 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex

12 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl on Granville

13 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile

14 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall

15 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall


* Festival Performance


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ABOUT ODIE LEIGH:

Odie Leigh would never have called herself a musician before the depths of the 2020 pandemic when her rapper roomies made a bet: Whoever records a song that goes viral first, wins. Slightly ticked off that they hadn’t included her in the wager, she decided to hit them with her best shot, and Leigh was crowned the victor when a track she wrote blew up on TikTok.


“I was like, ‘I’m gonna show y’all. I’m gonna win.’“ 


Four years after posting what she calls “that silly joke song” on TikTok, Odie Leigh has continued to transform and evolve as an artist — from what she calls “acoustic, ethereal folk sad girl music” to harder-edged tunes that flirt with early Aughts pop-punktivism.


Born and raised in Louisiana, Odie Leigh sang in the church choir, sure — her grandfather built the building, after all, and her family attended three times per week. But after moving to New Orleans to study English, she fully intended on making her bones in the film industry. That 2020 wager changed things, though, when Odie realized that she could win hearts in addition to bets.


Odie's first real single, “Ronnie’s Song,” followed in 2021, a sweetly silly track she wrote to cheer up a friend. Coming from the film world, she found songwriting freeing, unbound from the rigidity of screenplay, and discovered that simplicity can be a strength.


She released her first EP, How Did It Seem to You?, in 2022, about a situationship gone wrong. Recorded everywhere from Louisiana to Miami, “that first EP was born out of desperation to feel heard and be connected,” she says. “Releasing that EP is probably like one of the scariest things I’ve ever done because it was just so real and embarrassing. All of my music is stuff I would never say out loud.”


In 2023, Odie Leigh dropped her second, EP, The Only Thing Worse Than a Woman Who Lies Is a Girl Who’ll Tell Truths, which was recorded in the woods of Tennessee. “That second project was definitely like the edgier, angrier step up from: I’m a girl that makes folk music,” she says.


After those releases began gaining steam on social media, Odie Leigh started hitting stages hard. She toured Europe, North America, and played Newport Folk in 2023, followed this year by gigs at Boise, ID’s Treefort Music Fest with more to come.


ABOUT MOM+POP MUSIC:

Since launching 16 years ago, Mom+Pop Music has curated a critically acclaimed list of artists and has seen significant success releasing music from MGMT, Courtney Barnett, Orion Sun, Caamp, Maya Hawke, Del Water Gap, Porter Robinson, Goth Babe, Tycho, Tom Morello, and many others. Solely owned and operated by Founder/co-owner Michael Goldstone and co-owner Thaddeus Rudd, M+P has a global team of 25 people and is self-distributed. Known for their artist-first mantra, M+P continues to amass industry accolades from artists, media, and colleagues including Billboard’s Independent Label Power Lists, A2IM’s Libera Award for Label of the Year, and other recognition. They have been featured in Forbes, Variety, and Billboard through the years with a pointed look at their credibility, thoroughness, and talented team. Mom+Pop Music has offices in New York and Los Angeles. For more, please visit www.momandpopmusic.com.


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