Photo: Celeste Midori
Knitting have laid out plans for their sophomore album.
The Montreal band will release 'Souvenir' through Mint Records on June 26, following up 2024's 'Some Kind of Heaven'. In French, "souvenir" means "to remember," which mirrors the album's themes of memory and what we carry with us.
Recorded during studio sessions in frontperson Mischa Dempsey and drummer Andy Mulcair's home of Montreal, Quebec, and at engineer Sarah Harris' home of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the album is previewed by the new single, I Want To Remember Everything, which leans into grungy indie-rock territory. Dempsey said:
"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."
Knitting have a handful of Canadian shows with Sasha Cay and Hiding Places scheduled over the next two weeks. Head here for details.
'Souvenir' tracklist:
1. I Want To Remember Everything
2. Sunrise
3. Here Comes
4. Photocopy
5. I Wasn’t Fully Cooked
6. Shuffle
7. Gift Horse
8. Sequel
9. Exit Desire