Band: Respire
Song: “The Sun Sets Without Us”
Album: Hiraeth
Release Date: July 26th, 2024
Label: Dine Alone Records
The group said of the latest single:
“‘The Sun Sets Without Us’ covers plenty of stylistic ground – featuring arpeggiated melodies countered by driving horns, an ode to sassy art punk, a captivating, accelerating buildup with haunting gang vocals punctuated by raw screams, and a crushing climax. The song is about our precarious position as immigrants, and a warning that those who come after us now will come after you next.
Things are not well in this world, and fake smiles can only hide so much. The news is bad – strikes, riots, wars, famine, inflation, corruption – and continues unabated. In the video you see the constant cycle of crisis we’ve become accustomed to… the smiles fade away, and the news anchors lose their composure, growing increasingly desperate.”
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Tour dates:
8/01 Toronto, ON – The Royal Theatre
9/12 New Brunswick, NJ – TBA
9/13 New York, NY – Gold Sounds
9/14 Richmond, VA – Dark Days, Bright Nights Festival
9/16 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Roboto Project
9/17 Cleveland, OH – The Winchester Music Tavern
9/18 Columbus, OH – Dirty Dungarees
9/19 Indianapolis, IN – Healer
9/20 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s Music Joint
9/21 Detroit, MI – TBA
9/22 Toronto, ON – St. Stephen-In-The-Fields Church
Hiraeth track listing:
- “Keening”
- “The Match, Consumed”
- “Distant Light of Belonging”
- “First Snow”
- “Home of Ash”
- “Voiceless; Nameless”
- “The Sun Sets Without Us”
- “We Grow Like Trees in Rooms of Borrowed Light”
- “Do the Birds Still Sing?”
- “Farewell (In Standard)”
