The long awaited second album by Hamilton’s The Rest will see the light of day when it drops on June 19, 2012.
The band has been unveiling a track each week leading up to the release date on June 19th.
When a song is introduced it will be available to download for free until the next song is posted. http://therest.bandcamp.com/
The tragic but happy story on the process of SEESAW happened a few years ago.
Here is a blurb from it:
We started the record under the most heartbreaking circumstances when our friend, and the producer of our first two albums, passed away from a heart attack while playing hockey. We decided to honour him by recording at his converted church studio, in the same manner that we would have if he were there.
We couldn’t have been happier with the initial results, and were looking at an April 2011 release date when an unexplainable hard-drive glitch deleted every morsel of sound we had recorded and mixed.
Being a month away from completion, we exhausted every possible recovery source, and were almost without hope, until SEESAW eventually found its way to the same company responsible for airplane black box recovery.
Almost six months after the process began, we miraculously had our album back.
We had other hiccups (like one member disappearing for a week only for us to eventually find him in a hospital…), but I don’t want to write you a novel; mainly we just needed to take the recovered music and keep working.
If you like dreamy atmospheric shoegaze with some added “soul tropical” & orchestral pop music similar to Bravestation, Ohbijou and Sigur Ros, then check them out.
Part of the album has that 1980s synth pop rock feel with tracks like John Huston and The Last Day gets your feet dancing.
To a haunting ballard on The Lodger which is slow and moody.
While the album ends off sort of with a 1960s inspired summer dreamy orchestral pop track on The Slumber.
A really good Canadian indie pop album!
Best tracks:
- Hey! For Horses
- Always On My Mind
- Laughing Yearning
- John Huston
- Young and Innocent
- The Last Day
- Slumber
I’d give SEESAW 9/10.
