06/28/2024
Today we’re releasing a song off our forthcoming record, Printed Pictures, (listen here: https://youtu.be/Q0CREoffjyA?si=jZv8DgGhdgsOIcEj )
as well as the stunning cover art made by . A pre-order for the full album will be up on bandcamp a little later this week, and the record will be out officially September 26th. We’ve been sitting on the album for a couple of years now, since it was recorded and finalized right before and after the birth of our kiddo.
This song is entitled « Sudden Melody, » recorded by and beautifully produced and mixed by . This song was the last one written for the record, and I finalized the lyrics right before our vocal recording day. I was around 26 weeks into pregnancy, overwhelmed by anxiety having been transferred to the high risk clinic, genetics and a perinatal cardiologist. Everything was heavily medicalized and no one would or could just say to me « things are going to be ok. » Though it wasn’t anyone’s intention, I felt like I was being told I was a failure over and over again- that my body wasn’t housing this baby right, like I wasn’t made to get through a pregnancy, like both of us were at risk because I just wasn’t built for this. When I wrote the lyrics to this song, what I needed was an externalized hope. Something to remind me that life is an uncontrollable force, that there is no perfect preparation to make us ready for loss and grief, that it’s ok to yearn for something even when we’re being told it might be out of reach. When I listened back to the rough mixes, before Jasper’s birth, in anticipation of the choices and experiences to come, it sent a wave of release through me and helped me cry, let go a little, experience the joy of where I already was and the connection I already felt to this unborn being, even if that was the only time we had.
Thanks to the wonderful players on this track: , , and Kelly Pratt.
Thanks to the generous support from Canada Council for the Arts