We named knitting a Band To Watch back in 2024, coinciding with the release of their excellent debut full-length Some Kind Of Heaven. Today the Montreal indie rockers have announced its follow-up Souvenir, which they're teasing with the brooding, lightly grungy lead single "I Want To Remember Everything."
"I Want To Remember Everything" is about growing up a "weird kid," and eventually coming around to appreciate and even embrace those eccentricities as you get older: "You know I tried to rearrange/ What I hated/ And I never noticed my mistake," Mischa Dempsey recalls over a gauzy guitar chug. They explain further in a press release:
“I Want to Remember Everything” was one of the first songs that really came together for the album. It draws inspiration from the movies, music and TV that made me feel really seen as a kid, but that maybe my friends weren’t so into. My dad had a lot of random songs and music videos on our family computer that he’d downloaded from Limewire, one of them being a fan video edit of a Linkin Park song that me and my siblings would watch on repeat. That was a big inspiration for the overall feel of this song, along with the 1996 movie Harriet The Spy. “I Want to Remember Everything” is a love letter to the weirdo I was when I was a kid, and as a way to try to reconnect with the parts of myself I hid away as I was growing up.
Dempsey made the music video along with bandmate Sarah Harris, and you can watch that below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "I Want To Remember Everything"
02 "Sunrise"
03 "Here Comes"
04 "Photocopy"
05 "I Wasn’t Fully Cooked"
06 "Shuffle"
07 "Gift Horse"
08 "Sequel"
09 "Exit Desir"
Souvenir is out 6/26 via Mint.
