Michael Cloud Duguay
Succeeder

out: August 23rd, 2024 on Watch That Ends The Night (LP/DL)
genres: folk/ roots, experimental rock, singer-songwriter.
RIYL: Cowboy Junkies, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Van Morrison’s Common One, Myriam Gendron,  Joyful Joyful

MICHAEL CLOUD DUGUAY — BANDCAMP 
WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT — BANDCAMP

Since the early 2000’s, the Canadian singer, composer and producer Michael Cloud Duguayhas been weaving his curious aural nest with stray bits plucked from country music, rock, traditional musics, electronic genres, folk and jazz of all stripes, spiritual music, and assorted experimentalisms. His approach has always been immediately recognizable and affable to the ears, but also strange and bewildering. Equally disarming has been the habitual candour with which he speaks about his struggles with mental health, addiction, and homelessness. The title of his forthcoming LP Succeeder might seem glib or self-effacing, but in actual fact, it extends directly from his characteristic frankness. The record prompted him to move back to his hometown of Peterborough through its unabashed celebration of where he came from, his future trajectory and community. The album continues to mine the sumptuous, expansive rootsiness of Duguay’s earlier albums, yet also gestures toward the more outward experimentation of several of his upcoming projects through its careful, yearning ambiences. Ttrue to both the record’s title and his stated aspirations, Duguay succeeds in carving out this distinct and powerful emotional space, a sort of “experimental heartland totalism,” as he puts it.  Fittingly, it also serves to announce Watch That Ends The Night, his new label alongside lauded Nova Scotian musician Andrew McKelvie (New Hermitage, Scions, Jerry Granelli).

COVERAGE:
Year-End — Favourite Fifty, DOMINIONATED
List — Upcoming Releases, Tinnitist
List/ News — Darryl Sterdan, Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • The Long List: 360+ Releases On The Way, Tinnitist
List/ News — Kerry Doole, New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Keshia Chanté’s Anniversary Reissue, Fucked Up’s ‘Another Day’ & More, Billboard
List/ News — Kerry Doole, New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: Begonia, Orville Peck and Boy Golden Have Anticipated Releases On The Way, Billboard
List/ News — Kerry Doole, New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Country Phenom Orville Peck Returns, Shawn Mendes, Dan Mangan Announce New Albums, Billboard
List/ News — Kerry Doole, New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Mustafa, Nelly Furtado, Jeremie Albino Announce Anticipated Releases, Billboard
List/ News — Kerry Doole, New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: OMBIIGIZI, Flore Laurentienne, AP Dhillon, The Sheepdogs & More, Billboard
List — Release Radar & Most Anticipated Albums for 2nd Half of 2024, Saving Country Music
List/ News — Clayton Edwards, New Country and Americana Albums for August 23, 2024, New Music from Lainey Wilson, Maggie Antone, & More, American Songwriter
List/ News — Pressing Concerns: Styrofoam Winos, Dom Sensitive, Wavers, The Collect Pond, Rosy Overdrive
List/ Video — Upcoming Albums August 2024, Holy Noise
News — Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Cloud Duguay announces new label alongside the “experimental heartland totalism” of new LP “Succeeder”, Frontview Magazine
News — Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Cloud Duguay announces new label alongside the “experimental heartland totalism” of new LP “Succeeder”, Click Roll Boom
Article — Matt Hertendy, DOMINIONATED on the GO: Peterborough feat. Michael Cloud Duguay and more, Dominionated
Article/ Round-up — Alex Carn, Downtown courtyard party with Otonabeats, Peterborough Currents
Article — Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay, Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album a tribute to songwriter’s hometown, Peterborough Examiner
Review — Jim Di Gioia, Dominionated
Review — David Reed, Belleville Intelligencer
Review — Ivan Rod
Review — Ted Parkinson, The WholeNote
Review — Tom Haugen, Take Effect Reviews
Review — Nitestylez.de
Review/ Round-up — Tomáš S. Polívka, Uloveno na síti: Jazzová výheň žhne i (v) září, Český rozhlas
Review/ Round-up/ Newsletter — Adam White, Saved By Rock and Roll, Some Party
Playlist — The Eh! List, Exclaim!
Playlist — DOMINIONATEDcore: September 2024, Dominionated
Playlist — OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #298, One Chord To Another
Playlist — OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #294, One Chord To Another
Playlist — OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #293, One Chord To Another
Playlist — Quick Before It Melts 040, Domioniated
Playlist — Orange Snail Mix, The Nightshift
Radio — David Dalle, CKCU (May 22, 2025)
Radio — Quaaludes and Preludes, KWVA (January 30, 2025)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (November 15, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (November 4, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (October 9, 2024)
Radio — Fresh Air, CBC (September 29, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (September 27, 2024)
Radio — Fresh Air, CBC (September 22, 2024)
Radio — Fresh Air, CBC (September 21, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (September 17, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (September 11, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (September 10, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (September 4, 2024)
Radio — Nothing To See Hear, CKCU (September 2, 2024)
Radio — Through The Looking Glass, CFRU (September 1, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 30, 2024)
Radio — Free Form Freakout, KMSU (August 29, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 26, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 20, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 16, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 12, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 6, 2024)
Radio — Fresh Air, CBC (August 4, 2024)
Radio — Ontario Morning, CBC (August 2, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (August 1, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (July 29, 2024)
Radio — Ontario Morning, CBC (July 29, 2024)
Radio — Eclectic Adult Alternative, KSYM (July 26, 2024)