[Cover photo credit to Alex Squire]
Living Hour have returned with Internal Drone Infinity, their fourth full-length album, out now via Keeled Scales, Paper Bag Records, and Beloved Records. The Winnipeg Indie Rock band craft Shoegaze-infused Alt-Rock for their new collection.
Alongside the release, the band have shared the track “Texting,” alongside a video. The song looks into an everyday act and “captures the quiet intensity — and sudden emotional weight — that can come with obsession and communication in the digital age.”
Sarty, from the band, says:
“This song was inspired by the process of trying to explain Winnipeg to someone over text. The 7-year long distance yearn-ship from “Waiter” returns here. I was constantly sending this person portions of my day through pixels–photos, videos, and obscure observations. That relationship and this documentation felt like love and also like a hobby, and like this constant candy in my mouth. I needed to capture this existence and the feeling of living in Winnipeg.
The song is written from this really mundane but intimate point of view, one you only have if you’ve spent a lot of time walking around the city. I used to drive a lot more. I had an ‘03 Honda Civic but the key got stuck in the ignition (this feels like a metaphor). Anyway, the world used to go by faster, but now I have to walk everywhere. I walk, and things slow down, and I notice a lot more. Like all the garbage in Winnipeg. In the winter everything disappears in the snow, but when the snow melts we’re left with the mosaic of shit. I keep a list on my phone of things I see on the sidewalk: garbage that breaks my heart or situations that I try to explain, either to myself or over text–that blue bubble carrying my thoughts somewhere else.
I imagine Internal Drone Infinity as a series of small movies projected out from within myself. The album was written while I was working as a projectionist at a movie theatre in Winnipeg, and it’s such an internal album, so it makes sense to me that my body could exist as a projection room.
Much of the album deals with how my inner self interacts with the outside world: the places I’m from and the people I love, and the landscapes and weather that seep inside. There’s a lot of remembering and recovering–getting better and understanding who I am based on who I have been. With this, I was able to feel inside of myself. I was able to listen to the constant chatter of my mind, then give it a name and a sound.”
Living Hour Live
11/3 – Milwaukee – Cactus Club
11/4 – Chicago – Empty Bottle ★
11/5 – Windsor – Meteor
11/6 – Hamilton – Into The Abyss
11/7 – Toronto – The Baby G
11/8 – Ottawa – 27 Club
11/9 – Montreal – L’esco
11/11 – Boston – Deep Cuts
11/12 – Catskill – Avalon Lounge
11/13 – New York – Night Club 101
11/14 – Philadelphia – Ortlieb’s
11/15 – Lambertville – Soupcon Salon
11/16 – Pittsburgh – Government Center
11/21 – Winnipeg – Park Theatre
★ w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
