Following last year’s JUNO award winning album When we were that what wept from the sea, The love it took to leave you features 11 new pieces of emotionally scorching music. The album was recorded over a week in 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year-old former metalworks facility in Montreal with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. From the album’s opening track Stetson charts a carefully sequenced ride, travelling through intense territories punctuated with tragic melodies that seek transcendence, epic and frenzied shredders, and many shades of scary beauty, betrayal, and redemption. This is the art of storytelling wrought instrumentally. The love it took to leave you is a perfect storm of technical, musical and compositional complexity and achievement . The love it took to leave you A2. The Six A3. The Augur B1. Hollowing B2. To think we knew from fear B3. Malediction B4. Green and grey and fading light C1. Strike your forge and grin D1. Ember D2. So say the soaring bullbats D3. Bloodrest
