After impressing our Social Media Editor at Festival de Musique Émergente last year, Montreal band knitting have signed to Mint Records and announced their debut album — previewed today by new single "Spirit Gum."
Some Kind of Heaven is due September 6 from the quartet, led by Mischa Dempsey (Lonely Parade), who recorded the album with Scott Munro of Preoccupations. Written over several years, it touches on the many growing pains of young adulthood, including Dempsey coming into their non-binary identity.
"I had a very sudden falling out with a roommate and moved out of our shared apartment on a dime, no easy feat given Montreal's ongoing affordable housing crisis," they explained of lead single "Spirit Gum" in a press release. "There's not a lot of discourse in popular culture on friendship breakups — let alone roommate breakups, where your lives are so physically intertwined — so I found myself at a kind of loss for words about how to describe the situation and my emotions surrounding it."
Dempsey concluded, "'Spirit Gum' is about how big human emotions can distort a physical space, and the toll not feeling 'at home' in your own space can take on you." With lyrics like "Walking on eggshells / Like these floors aren't mine," they offer a poignant look at the quiet intensity of a very real and under-discussed experience atop fuzzy, '90s-indebted guitars.
Give it a listen below, where you'll also find the album tracklist.
Some Kind of Heaven:
1. Heaven
2. A New Complaint
3. Amy
4. Green
5. Spirit Gum
6. Family Tree
7. Sleeper
8. College Rock Song #1
9. Dig
10. The Thrill