Today the Winnipeg band Living Hour dropped their second album Someday is Today via Kanine Records (USA) and Next Door Records (Canada).
A brilliant and beautiful moody dream pop-rock album to come out this year.
Think of them as the Canadian version of Beach House!
About the album from that band:
Someday Is Today is Living Hour at their most pensive and longing.
The vulnerable lyrics are brought beautifully to life by lush and generous instrumentation that winds its way through the album.
It was recorded over seven straight days during the dark depths of a Manitoba winter, with the band cocooned in the sounds they were making as the temperature hit -30 outside the door.
“It’s a grind, but it’s incredibly challenging in a frustratingly beautiful kinda way,” Sarty says of their local environment.
“It pushes you to keep going, to keep finding glimmers to move forward.
A silver piece of wrapper sticking out a snowbank becomes your altar. The big grey sky gets me giddy.”
This fractured breed of creativity naturally drifted into the songs themselves. Sam Sarty’s lyrics is pulled from journals, iPhone notes, and napkin scribbles that comes suffused with reflections on disassociation, human interactions with technology, and a poignant contemplation of life in liminal spaces. The album’s cover artwork ties into these themes, with a vulnerable belly button peeking out from a pair of jeans.
The first Living Hour album to share lead vocals across different songs, Someday Is Today thrives by keeping just enough connection across its various sonic and thematic palettes for the whole thing to feel like one cohesive world.
Whether it’s the album’s soft and gorgeous harmonies or the captured sound of wind tubes being swung above their heads, the songs here feel bound by something bigger than themselves is an energy that flourished in spite of it all, a human connection that grips just strongly enough even when pushed to its frayed, unreachable extremes.
Someday Is Today gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Living Hour – Someday Is Today [Streaming]
