Colin Stetson: The Six (new single) + Preorder new album
NEW SINGLE + 2xLP ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
“The Six” is the second single and track from Colin Stetson’s upcoming album The love it took to leave you.. Recorded over a week in early 2023 at The Darling Foundry, a 144-year old former metalworks facility in Montreal now transformed into a 3500m3 contemporary art complex, with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. From the album’s opening scene Stetson charts a carefully sequenced ride, travelling through intense territories punctuated with tragic melodies that seek transcendence, epic and frenzied shredders, and many shades of scary beauty, betrayal, and redemption. “I see pieces of music that can be completely full narratives with characters and imagery and in a full plot; and then other times I think that they are more like directions. And so how long is the direction? It's going, it starts, and it goes to a place—and it leaves you there. They are modes of transportation."
Unclassifiable by nature, Colin’s pan-genre DNA is coded as much by classical and jazz, as metal, pop, rock, folk and electronic music. Because The love it took to leave you is an origin story, situated on a timeline predating the New History of Warfare trilogy, he mined some foundational, formative elements for its creation. “I looked back at the nineties, probably 93, when I first started conceiving of my solo music, and started playing this way. I was thinking, okay, I'm gonna delve back into and really steep myself in the music that made me: early electronica, doom metal; and to counterbalance that whole aesthetic with my own personal musical history.”
PREORDER The love it took to leave you
The love it took to leave you comes out Friday, September 13, 2024 release via Envision Records in North America, and through Invada for the UK and the rest of the world.
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