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Brian Elodi Reveals Debut Full-Length Album ‘After Only’

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5 months ago

June 12, 2026

Brian Elodi’s debut album feels like opening a weathered journal found in an attic where time moves differently. Across 13 songs and nearly fifty minutes, the record traces the quiet geography of a life shaped by memory, fatherhood, and the slow accumulation of stories that refuse to fade. What began as a gift for his daughter has become something more expansive: a sonic keepsake that turns private history into shared reflection.

There is a cinematic softness to the way these songs breathe. Born from years of private songwriting, they carry the patina of lived experience—unpolished but luminous. Producer Ben’s contribution is less intervention than illumination, gently widening the frame so that Elodi’s intimate sketches can stretch into something more atmospheric without losing their original tenderness.

Much of the album feels suspended between fiction and confession. Elodi populates his songs with heightened characters and slightly mythologised narratives, yet beneath the storytelling lies a steady pulse of emotional truth. It’s a technique that allows distance and closeness to coexist, as though the songs are constantly remembering and imagining at the same time.

Musically, the record leans into the folk tradition but resists its limitations. Acoustic guitars anchor the arrangements, while subtle production choices evoke a sense of movement—like light shifting across a room over the course of a day. Elodi’s vocal delivery is understated, almost conversational, inviting listeners into the space rather than performing at them.

Ultimately, the album feels like a preservation of feeling rather than form. It is a record about time—how it accumulates, how it distorts, and how it can be gently held in place through song. In giving these tracks to the world, Elodi transforms personal memory into something quietly universal, a document of becoming that lingers long after it ends.

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Doja Cat Brings the Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Scotiabank Arena on November 25

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1 hour ago

November 2, 2026

Leo Bodei

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Doja Cat. Photo courtesy of Doja Cat on Instagram.

Doja Cat brings her Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Toronto on Wednesday, November 25, with a 7:30 p.m. show at Scotiabank Arena. It is one of the last stops on the biggest headlining run of her career, and it lands in the middle of a heavy week for the building.

The tour supports Vie, her fifth studio album, released in September 2025. The record is an 1980s inspired turn back toward pop, led by the singles “Jealous Type” and “Gorgeous,” and the live show has been built as a full scale arena production. Latto joins the bill as special guest for the entire North American leg, which runs 31 dates from the October 1 opener in Detroit to the December 1 finale at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Toronto gets the show near the end of the run, with Boston on November 23 before it and Montreal on November 27 after it. By the time she reaches Scotiabank Arena, the production will have played more than twenty North American arenas, on top of earlier legs across Oceania, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Earlier in November the tour also plays Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Atlanta.

Fans have been getting a look inside the tour straight from Doja Cat herself. She has been filming the run on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, posting point of view footage from backstage, soundchecks and life on the road, so the Toronto crowd will see a show that has been documented almost night by night. Tickets for November 25 are on sale through Ticketmaster. With the Garden shows in New York closing the tour one week later, the Toronto date is one of the final chances to see this production before the run wraps.