Luke LeBlanc Album Release Show w/ Thomas Sticha at Icehouse

All of us as human beings experience the same basic transformations. The details may be different, but the journey is largely relatable.

Singer-songwriter Luke LeBlanc carefully explored those personal-to-universal intersections on his last two albums, 2021’s Only Human and 2022’s Fugue State. With Places, his fifth studio album to be released October 27 as his debut recording for Minneapolis-based Real Phonic Records, LeBlanc crafts a thoroughly thematic collection of 10 songs focused on accepting and embracing the physical and emotional places that shape us.

“These ‘places’ that we go through in life, whether through our own volition or due to circumstances beyond our control, take us from one phase to the next one,” says LeBlanc, 27. “As people, we tend to feel most at home and process those emotions best when we’re moving and growing.”