Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon our Tracks Editor nabbed it before we could run the video and who could blame him? Seeing the band play is so joyous in itself that we’re going to break our golden rule and run it as well. We mark our own homework so who’ll know?
As songwriter Joel Stretch told us, “I Found a River’ explores a déjà vu feeling that hits pretty often for me. Have I been here before? In this room with these exact people having this exact conversation? It can be a nice feeling sometimes—there is comfort and pleasure to be found in life’s repetitions. I used to see life in terms of growth and forward movement; in some ways I still do, but these days I notice cycles and seasons that leave and return. So, I think this song celebrates familiarity and dependability.” And how we need some of that in our lives at the moment. There might be a new album out soon but we couldn’t possibly comment.
Take care, don’t forget Palestine and keep fighting those fascists. Slightly scary week coming up obviously with a certain election on Thursday. Deep breaths. See you next week.
