Cate finally finds the confidence to be "All Talk" on her confessional new ballad

Raised in the so-called Bible Belt of British Columbia, along Canada's border with the US, Cate Canning quickly found herself getting restless as she made her way through high school. Keen to escape the fate of small-town life, she was driving down the West Coast whenever she could to do sessions in LA. It's here she met fellow artist, songwriter and now flatmate Cian Ducrot, who produced her upcoming EP Love, The Madness.

Her dreams of relocating to LA were scuppered due to visa issues so she headed to London moving in with Ducrot and their third flatmate, another Canadian songwriter Tessa Mouzourakis. In their hyper-creative flatshare, they hunkered down as the global pandemic set in transforming Cate's bedroom (the already converted living room) into a studio space.

Following the release of two independent singles "Sad Song" and this year's "Pity Party", "All Talk" is Cate's best track to date. The song sees Cate quit hiding and stand up for herself, "[it's about] wanting to be bold, and wanting to tell someone just how much they affected you but you can’t because it’s not in your nature," she explains.

"All Talk" isn't even about trying to be more than just talk, it's not calling someone out who's mouthing off and it's not really about taking any action. With "All Talk", Cate is kicking off a conversation which could cause all hell to break loose. Cate embraces her inner recklessness with just her voice and some bleak piano chords backing her up with the track's minimalistic production letting us focus in on Cate's battle cry.

"I wrote this song in a dream strangely," she adds. "I woke up at 3am and voice-noted the chorus, then in the morning finished it with my roommates. I think that speaks to what this song means in some way." There's nothing like trying to avoid conflict only for it to finally get to you while you're sleeping. This idea of finally having an outlet for these emotions finds its way onto the rest of the EP too, Cate says "it's a culmination of everything I wanted to say this year but couldn’t find the words."

Inspired by Joni Mitchell, Shania Twain and Alanis Morrisette, aka "all the Canadian queens" as Cate puts it, her songwriting focuses her very own coming-of-age story. Smattered with intensely personal detail Cate has created a time capsule of intricate pop songs that will not only strike a chord with people who know what she's been up to, but more importantly with anyone ready to break out of their dead-end suburban destiny.