Alessia Cara's Debut EP Four Pink Walls is Out August 28

“We're obviously crushing relatively hard on Alessia Cara at the moment…It feels like the rest of the world is catching up too, as she made her late-night debut last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, performing "Here" with The Roots as her backing band…it felt like a thing.” – VICE

“The Def Jam signee confidently performed her antisocial anthem, with the Roots as her backing band…“You belong here!” Fallon proclaimed to her after the song was over. Unclear whether he was giving her life advice or stage directions, but either way, sounded about right. – SPIN

“It’s not every day an 18 year old joins The Roots to perform on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show…Alessia Cara visited the famous 30 Rock studio for a live rendition of “Here,” her chatter-igniting single that’s brought a wave of fan adoration and press coverage…Her antisocial ode to self-preservation and independence over the tropes of teendom has a lot left in the tank.” – Pigeons & Planes


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Def Jam Recordings’ new sensation Alessia Cara, dubbed “your new favorite musician” by Cosmopolitan, has proved that she is a force to be reckoned with, in the wake of her television debut on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where she performed her buzzworthy debut track “Here” with the Roots. Along with huge adds at radio, the ‘Fallon Effect’ kicked in with “Here” trending upwards over 100% in both streams and downloads.

“Here,” is the debut single and video from Alessia, and the lynchpin of FOUR PINK WALLS, her debut five-track EP, arriving August 28th at all digital services. The EP tracks include: “Seventeen,” “Here,” “Outlaws,” “I’m Yours,” and “Four Pink Walls.”

“For a self-described ‘antisocial pessimist’ giving her first major appearance,” Idolator reported immediately after The Tonight Show aired, “she was incredibly engaging, mugging for the camera and owning the stage. She even seemed to be enjoying all the attention at the end when Fallon told her ‘You belong here.’ This girl’s gonna be huge.”

19-year old Canadian powerhouse Alessia “has crawled her way into our brains this summer with her slam dunk track ‘Here’,” raved Entertainment Weekly, which described the song as “a sleepy stoner jam about hiding out at a party.” Nylon hailed the “sultry, slow-burning anthem about being at a party you could not care less about,” and cited the major profile that appeared on Alessia in theNew York Times.

“Few songs,” wrote the Times’ Jon Caramanica, “move with the easy saunter of Alessia Cara’s debut single, ‘Here.’ Shimmery and springlike, it’s elegant lounge soul, but its glow masks a tension at the core…Ms. Cara sings deeply in the pocket, landing heavy on syllables as if she were shifting her weight from one hip to the other, and delivering the hook — “I’ll be over here” — with sass and cool… both rebellious and cocksure…‘Here’ is a flag planted for the outsiders, the shy kids, the loners. And it makes the stunning ‘Here’(Def Jam) part of a proud and stubborn lineage of outcast pop by young women. In recent years, songs like Lorde’s ‘Royals’ or Taylor Swift’s ‘You Belong With Me’ have argued their case for outsiderness so stylishly that they helped catapult their singers from the margins to pop’s center.”