Slow Leaves Announces New Album 'Meantime,' Shares Single

"I see this album as a love letter, a collection of messes that fit neatly within a regular life," says the Winnipeg singer-songwriter

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BY Megan LaPierrePublished Apr 12, 2023

Winnipeg psych-folk troubadour Grant Davidson has announced his fifth album as Slow Leaves, led by new single "American Band."

Meantime arrives on June 30 via Birthday Cake — nearly a decade after the Slow Leaves debut Beauty Is So Common. It follows 2021's Holiday, 2020's Shelf Life and 2017's Enough About Me before it.

"I see this album as a love letter, a collection of messes that fit neatly within a regular life if there is such a thing," Davidson explained in a press release. "In that sense, I guess these songs serve as a reminder for myself, since I'm forgetful, that all moments are equal in that they pass through us once only in long stretches of boredom or by bursts of love and death. In the meantime, I only hope not to let any more go by unnoticed."

Of its open road-evoking lead single, he added, "At some point on every tour, I feel the weight of an existential pressure to justify why I'm not somewhere else doing something more reasonable. I know reality is always grittier than the dream, but like most things worth doing, the allure is in moments that break you just enough to feel saved."

Watch the video for "American Band" below, and keep scrolling to check out the album tracklist.


Meantime:

1. American Band
2. Reason Why
3. Happy All the Time
4. Nothing Really Changes
5. Grand Marquis
6. Jenny
7. Goodbye Florida
8. Anyone Out There
9. Underneath This
10. Say Goodnight 

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