{"id":4116,"date":"2019-10-21T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenoisymountain.com\/?page_id=4116"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:39:51","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statusnonstatus.com\/st\/press\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row no_bottom_margin=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1767729711185{margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-image: url(http:\/\/www.statusnonstatus.com\/st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photocopy-white.jpg?id=4280) !important;}”][vc_column][lab_text_autotype typed_text=”#E-8_JTNDaDElMjBzdHlsZSUzRCUyMnRleHQtYWxpZ24lM0ElMjBjZW50ZXIlM0IlMjIlM0UlMkFQUkVTUyUyQSUzQyUyRmgxJTNF”][vc_column_text css=””]\u201cHope and hopelessness teeter side by side, big drums and jingle dresses ring out beneath driving guitars, and questions about land, belonging, and survival linger long after the last lyric fades.\u201d – Atwood Magazine<\/em>
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“Raw and Sweetly melancholic” – Exclaim<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Status\/Non-Status is not a band so much as a living network\u2014one rooted in care, resistance, and collective survival. Led by Anishinaabe artist Adam Sturgeon, the project continues his ongoing process of reinvention and reclamation, treating music less as product and more as kinship. Every iteration of Sturgeon\u2019s work carries that same ethos: protect what you build, bring your people with you, and make something honest enough to endure… Their forthcoming album, Big Changes, crystallizes that philosophy. Shaped by a wide circle of collaborators and friends, the record balances reckoning with resolve, solitude with solidarity. Lead single \u201cAt All,\u201d featuring Kevin Drew and RANGE favourite Zoon, captures the project at its most direct\u2014crunchy, restless, and searching\u2014born from disillusionment and rebuilt through shared creation. In a moment defined by fragmentation, Status\/Non-Status offers something sturdier: music as community, and community as survival.” – Range<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Count me as a huge fan of the art Adam Sturgeon creates. The projects he works within always feel bigger than the sum of their parts. Status\/Non-Status seems more like a collective of like-minded spirits. Maybe that\u2019s why the music always sounds genuine, the listener feels involved. Every time I run into Sturgeon, I feel like I know him even though we\u2019ve only ever really chatted a few times. I can\u2019t quantify where this come from but Status\/Non-Status have this energy harnessed and it\u2019s special.” – Cups and Cakes<\/em><\/p>\n

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“At All, blends reverberating guitar with observations about the daily hustle. ‘How you dreamin\u2019 when you not sleeping at all?’ Sturgeon sings. ‘I was starting to feel really disillusioned at the time of writing this song. Confused about the state of music and the complex world we are living in; the grind to make each day work,’ he shared. ‘I decided to disappear, bunker down at home, stay in, write songs about it and invite my friends over to visit and play along. I wrote over 40 songs and this was one of the first to come out of me.’ It\u2019s equally downcast and honest, with the lyrics setting the tone for a record that\u2019s raw and urgent.” – CBC Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Heavy, moody alt-rock bruiser, steeped in sludgy textures and brooding atmosphere, hitting with both weight and intensity.” – Photogmusic Blog<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe creativity and complexity of “Surely Travel” are marvelous, pushing the boundaries of what this unstoppable band can accomplish. \u201d – Exclaim!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cSurely Travel is for anyone who has left or is leaving \u2014 and wants an unforgettable soundtrack to accompany them.\u201d – CBC Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWith illuminating, passionate storytelling and a sonic curiosity that blurs the line between grunge, psych, folk and noise, Sturgeon impresses yet again.\u201d – Paste Magazine, Lizzie Mano<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAdam Sturgeon (Nme\u2019) has built his reputation as a musician around smashing the status quo. \u2026 So, it\u2019s not entirely unexpected that the progressive beat-warping harmonist would change tempo mid-stride, revealing an evolutionary schism that redefines the intentions behind his art.\u201d – Range Magazine, Christine Leonard<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWarrior Down takes you for a sonic hike \u2014 sometimes through the wilderness, sometimes through a wasteland \u2014 never staying long in one spot or indicating the next direction. With long instrumentals that dance between chaos and calm, it’s a subconscious assault on the emotions.\u201d – Exclaim!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWarrior Down is a perfectly paced and arranged set of songs and instrumental interludes, each a movement in its own right but ultimately in service to the record\u2019s overarching theme.\u201d – Dominionated (#1 Album of 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Warrior Down.., an impossible-to-categorize, rock-psych-sometimes-folk set of 10 songs that draw on vocalist and lyricist Adam Sturgeon’s experience as an Anishinaabe-Canadian, writing about the intergenerational trauma within his family and his Anishinaabe community” – CBC Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAn abundant oxymoron as vast as the Canadian Shield\u201d \u2013 Weird Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cUncompromising. They make the music that they want to make \u2013 it\u2019s what they believe in. Their latest is no exception. It meanders, it defies categorization. It entices you in with it\u2019s soft vocals and vulnerable admission\u2026 but once they\u2019ve got you they pummel you mercilessly with a post-metal firestorm.\u201d \u2013 Ride the Tempo<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA tricky band to shelf. At one listen, you might latch onto their folkie regionalism and proclivity for place-based storytelling, and then, two tracks later, it might be the thoughtful architecture of their noise-building that reels you in. For some, I\u2019m sure, it\u2019s the psychedelic tint that captures them, and for other careful listeners, it might be the passages that touch on drone metal.\u201d \u2013 Chart Attack<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s an inescapable quality to their music, a heavy, fuzz-laden hodgepodge of grunge, psych, folk and post-rock, incorporating influences from Elevator and Eric\u2019s Trip to Black Sabbath. Founded in Guelph in 2009 by Adam Sturgeon and Kirsten Kurvink Palm, the project has since evolved into a five-piece band who call both Guelph and London, ON home. But there\u2019s more to them than just their music, as the band frequently pursue multimedia art projects across the American continent. Speaking with Sturgeon, it\u2019s clear that they are using their music as a springboard for cultural and spiritual healing and learning.\u201d \u2013 Exclaim<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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