Hey, Our Basement:
Whether drenched in crystalline synths or stripped bare, I aim to write songs that tackle modern life and love with radical intimacy. Friday marked the release of The Silence Came After via Ottawa’s Record Centre Records, my second and most fully realized album to date. Produced by Scattered Clouds’ Philippe Charbonneau and engineered by Sebastien Perry, The Silence Came After is equal parts lush and spare, marrying the naked soul of 70’s era Neil Young with Talk Talk’s spacious expressionism, and Krautrock’s motoric rhythms. The record also features members of Little Scream, Scattered Clouds, Bosveld, and FET.NAT.
“Broken Stairs” is about wanting to run away but having nowhere to go. I’m singing about questioning my past and reflecting on mistakes I made. As that happens, I begin to feel the need to break out and escape reality. In that state, I ask myself to be aware of the people around me and myself. It is a personal lesson about the enticement of love and detaching yourself from love when it does not prevail.
We chose the concept of getting lost in your own city for the “Broken Stairs” video. I was inspired by teenage memories of walking and hiking around Ottawa and Hull with my friends. We would go out and discover graffiti walls, and abandoned things like the old train tracks that cross the Ottawa river and bridge Ontario and Quebec. Thanks so much to PopMatters for premiering the visuals for “Broken Stairs”
I’ll be playing a show on June 5th at Burdock in Toronto to celebrate The Silence Came After and I’d love to see you out there!
Claude Munson
hello, how was your 3 day weekend (for those that had one)
Good morning!
Hello hello!
Hi Janet
Hello. I spent the third day of my weekend doing yardwork and getting my first sunburn of the season. My arms hurt.
Hi loozr, did the guest help out in the yard?
Of course not, he just sleeps all day. Lazy bum.
my spirit animal!
Hello, people. Ottawa was pleasant over the weekend. Many people went away, I think, so it was nice and quiet. You could get around by car.
For instance, Saturday evening I went to hear Frog Eyes et al. at Makerspace North. Basically a light industrial hangar space in a longish, two level “City Centre” built maybe in the Sixties; nifty for whatever projects, less so as a musical venue. But to the point: they’ve had their liquor license lifted bekuz bad transgressions, so no beer. Awful. Well, one of the openers turned out to be really loud, so I went to listen to them outside, and then the thought hit me: Hull is just over there, there’s beer over there, and I have 40 minutes before me.
Twenty minutes later, I was back there listening, fizzy brew in hand.
I ended up having a nice talk with some guy, looking at the sunset and watching our (still) one light rail car line going back and forth on tracks, just below
Then there was Frog Eyes. Whoever compared him-them to Hawksley Workman, that’s a good comparison even live. The Frog himself fronted an otherwise all-female band.
It IS!
sorry, I didn’t know it was my line
That’s a great story, Benoît!
Thanks for that Benoit. I just bought some vinyl on the weekend and Frog Eyes was one of them. Some interesting stuff on there that will take me a few listens to decide how much I like it. I think it was morgana that had made the Hawksley comment and I agreed.
In other news, my Spotify account was hacked. They even made a few playlists on there and have messed with my algorithms. How rude! I have changed settings and password and hopefully all is good now.
why would someone hack into a spotify account (other than to just be an a-hole)
It’s a paid account. No commercials. And to be an a-hole.
ah, that would make a bit more sense
so what did they listen to?
I didn’t really check much. Poppy stuff and tracks in Chinese or something. I didn’t listen there was just Chinese or something text.
They look (and sound) more Japanese to me,I couldn’t resist
I have no clue.
I go through a J-pop listening phase every few years
Oh it was you! haha
my Spotify could look like it was hacked, because I was listening to a friend’s playlists, so it was showing stuff like Evanescance and Disturbed – not normal for me.
Mellow stuff by them, but still…
because Disturbed really is not something I would listen to, ever, except that cover of Sound of Silence
oh, and I had a 4-day weekend because I took Friday off. Got remarkably little done, considering. Stoopid sprained finger slowing me down. Who’d’ve guessed one little finger could be such a pain?
my home town got into the news
A week or so ago there was a playlist being followed that was not what I would follow. I unfollowed and forgot about it. This morning I was following it again and 3 playlists were made on my account and not by me. Jerks. They could have kept listening and I wouldn’t know if they hadn’t started messing with playlists.
I am not finding the page Garf.
Your home town is Sorry… can’t find the page you requested?
interesting
oops, I left out a “
it should work now