[Cover photo credit to Celeste Midori]

Montreal band knitting have announced Souvenir, their sophomore record, out on Mint Records on June 26, 2026. In French, “souvenir” translates directly as “to remember.” The record considers “what we take with us in life” and each song looks at a specific moment or memory.

The band has also released “I Want To Remember Everything,” a track about “having been a weird kid, and trying to reconnect as an adult with all the parts of yourself you tried to deny in order to fit in.”

Mischa Dempsey, the band’s frontperson, says:

“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.

The accompanying video is a “campy, whimsical visual in which the band tries to track down a treasured missing object against the intense brutalist backdrop of Montreal in the winter.”

After meeting on the Montreal DIY scene, knitting released their debut full-length Some Kind of Heaven in 2024.

In Canada and beyond, they’ve played with bands like Wishy, Preoccupations, Ribbon Skirt, and Wild Pink. With this new record on the horizon, they have a run of Canadian shows with sasha cay coming up.

KNITTING TOUR 2026

APRIL

2 – Ottawa – Saw Centre *

3 – Peterborough – Sadleir House

4 – Toronto – The Cameron House *

11 – Montreal – La Sotterenea * #

* with sasha cay

# with Hiding Places