Dana Gavanski - Again Again EP (2025) [Hi-Res]

Following her 2024 album LATE SLAP, Dana Gavanski shares the Again Again EP via Full Time Hobby, which sees the Canadian-Serbian artist turn to the piano as her muse.

In the time since the release of her third studio album, LATE SLAP, in April of this year, Gavanski has been busy. Amidst completing a headline tour of the UK, a run of dates in support of Jess Williamson, spending time swimming in the Adriatic sea and taking up silversmithing, she’s also been working on new material. “Sometimes there’s a fine balance between the end of something and the beginning of another project or exploration”, she ponders. “You kind of want to give life time to settle”.

Returning back to her studio, this time around Gavanski took to writing songs on the upright piano. On her newly rekindled love for the instrument, Gavanski notes, “I decided to brush up on my piano skills and since then I’ve been obsessed. I feel like a big child on the piano. I love how my hands move up and down, like swooping eagles each time they hit a chord.”

But on the EP’s lead single, ‘Business of the Attitude’, for example, she sounds more mature than childlike, sonically more distant from the Bowie-esque choruses and synth driven art-pop of LATE SLAP. Despite its sombre tone, to Gavanski, the song - which is “partly about the futility of trying to solve things, or make them go away” - is uplifting.

Second single ‘Leaving Home Again’ is a song of transformation and lightness; a “jest of coming to terms with the person I am and all the essential playfulness that being alive beckons”, she shares. It’s about not taking things too seriously and accepting life’s general uncertainties.

Working on her new material, Gavanski found herself following her intuition. “It wasn’t a conscious decision at first”, she states. She enlisted the skills of Syd Kemp (Ulrika Spacek, Crack Cloud, HAHA Sounds Collective) to help capture a more “live, in the room feeling without obsessing about perfection”. She continues, “I suppose I was listening to more piano ballad songs then, bringing things back to songwriting basics - just voice and one instrument.”