EXCLUSIVE: City & Colour ‘Moving On’ From Shock Records

City & Colour's Dallas Green has told theMusic.com.au today that he expects to leave his Australian record label Shock to keep his upcoming release “closer to what we want it to be”.

The former Alexisonfire guitarist is focusing on his solo project, which has been released locally through Shock in the past. The prominent independent label has undergone a major restructure in 2013 though, which has included a large turnover of staff. So far details of the new album have come through the independent Deathproof PR channels.

“I think, yeah, I think we're going to be moving on,” Green told theMusic.

“The way my stuff works is, my friend and manager Joel [Carriere] who I've known since I was sixteen years old, he started a label in 2005 called Dine Alone Records, which is what I'm on in Canada. We basically just started that in order to put out the first City & Colour record because we knew that no label was going to get behind it knowing that I wouldn't be able to promote it or tour.”

Dine Alone has licensed his releases to Shock in Australia, Cooking Vinyl in the UK and Vagrant in America but Green said they'll be looking for more control in the future.

Today theMusic.com.au believes that the album will be released through a new division of Universal called Caroline.

“Moving forward we're gonna just start kinda outsourcing and putting it out ourselves because it seems like we can keep it closer to what we want it to be… The one thing I do like to brag about is that, because I know a lot of people in the music industry who are stuck in horrible situations whether it be management or agents or record labels, and I'm just truly lucky to have just my best friends on that side of things.”

He also indicated that he'll be returning to Australia at some point on this album cycle.

“I'd love to come and play some of those festivals and then do my own shows,” he said, “so hopefully that's what it will be but not to worry, at some point I will be there because it is my favourite place to come.”

City & Colour's new album The Hurry & The Harm will be released Friday 31 May.

Reporting by Ben Doyle