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Alessia Cara: Are You In Love?
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Alessia Cara: Are You In Love?

INTERVIEW — On her latest album, the Canadian pop star revisits a decade of longing through jazz, soul, and hindsight in equal parts

For the next issue of Cannopy Magazine, we’re asking artists a simple question: Are You In Love? We want to get a sense of how they fell in love with their latest project, and how the many loves of their lives can be channeled into one artistic vessel.

Next up: Alessia Cara


Ten years into a career built on emotional candour and keeping it real with her fans, Alessia Cara returns with Love Or Lack Thereof, a jazz- and soul-inflected reimagining of songs drawn from across her catalogue. Recorded live in studio with a cohort of jazz musicians, LOLT strips her songwriting back to its emotional architecture, while collaborations with Norah Jones and Nelly Furtado deepen the album’s warm, late-night atmosphere. Rather than simply revisiting old material, the album shines Cara’s discography through the prism of love, revealing both her personal and artistic longings in soulful rhythms.

Listen to Love Or Lack Thereof now, and subscribe to The Cannopy Newsletter for our full interview with Alessia Cara.

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