Wild Pink + knitting + Travis Flynn

Wild Pink + knitting + guests

Doors 8:30pm / Show 9:00pm / Ends 1:30am

The CAP

19+

 

What started out as a pandemic hibernation project is now the fully fledged Montreal indie rock unit, knitting. With evocative storytelling and a dry sense of humour, knitting crafts guitar-driven and lyrically introspective indie rock that evokes the nostalgia of 90s alternative bands like Pavement, Pixies, and Sonic Youth.

Through precise lyricism, brash guitar solos, and whispered vocals, knitting brings to life Dempsey’s experiences as a twenty-something transitioning and learning to understand themself in Montreal. At once massive and intimate, Some Kind of Heaven is a rock record you can blast with your friends or listen to alone in your room, when you’re feeling alienated from everything you know—and wondering if anyone else is, too.

Released on September 6, 2024 via Mint Records, Some Kind of Heaven spent five weeks at #1 on the Canadian campus radio charts and earned the band praise from Pitchfork, The FADER, and Stereogum (Bands to Watch, Best New Artists 2024). knitting has shared the stage with the likes of Cherry Glazerr, Ovlov, and Truth Club, and has toured and performed at festivals across North America.

“Do you still believe it?” John Ross asks that question after journeying through the wreckage, after singing of thunder rolling down the track and lighting in a bottle. These are tropes, and he knows it. It’s a moment where he’s returning to the ancient wisdom of his classic rock forebears, trying to find the answers all over again. This is the ground Ross travels in “The Fences Of Stonehenge,” the lead single, opening track, and mission statement of the new Wild Pink album Dulling The Horns. The question reverberates across the album: “Do you still believe it?” And what happens when you don’t anymore? 

Ross’ response is to start anew. From the late ‘10s through the early ‘20s, Wild Pink was on the classic ascension arc. The otherworldly synth-Americana of 2018’s Yolk In The Fur garnered them press buzz and accolades, while the widescreen gloss and scope of its followup, 2021’s A Billion Little Lights, swung for the fences at the cusp of the band’s breakthrough. Then everything changed: Ross received a shocking cancer diagnosis. Wild Pink’s subsequent release, 2022’s ILYSM, was inevitably saddled with the weight of being an album about mortality and love. On the other side of it all, Ross began to reimagine what Wild Pink was.

Capacity permitting in certain smaller venues (The CAP, Charlotte Street Arts Center, Gallery 78).

A midwinter celebration of songwriting and storytelling, and flagship partner of Fredericton FROSTival, Shivering Songs hosts internationally renowned artists in historic and intimate spaces throughout Downtown Fredericton, on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people.

 

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