Today, Montreal-based indie art rock band Braids finally released Shadow Offering on Secret City Records.
Originally it was suppose to come out on April 24, 2020 but got pushed back to June 19, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brilliant album where the band is going strong on with Raphaelle’s songwriting and Taylor & Austin’s musicality.
About the album:
Produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie, the new album finds the band at their most personal, unabashedly flexing a new sense of confidence through songs that reach a higher level of artistry and collaboration.
A luscious and expansive release, Shadow Offering leads us through a sonic tapestry of narrative. With heartbreaking honesty and precision, listeners traverse a nuanced and complicated world: one full of beautiful contradiction. Although the album directs itself at the failures of people to love and be loved, it also seeks to restore justice and attain blissful union. It’s arc crests through the dark towards the light and learns how to dance with the dizzying rhythms of the heart. The songs bubble, sustain, dissolve, expand, and retract.
The album recounts pain, heartbreak, anger, but also lifts the heart towards hope. “There’s more hopefulness in this record than anything else I’ve written,” said Standell-Preston. “I think the songs are more human, more tangible, more honest.”
Shadow Offering gets:
/10.
