Next month, Montreal-based Shania Hayes will release her second album Kindergarten Heart via Bonsound. The follow-up to 2022 debut to coax a waltz, the record brings together what the label describes as “elements of nostalgia, wonder and lightheartedness,” into a style that combines whimsy and serious emotion. We featured the record’s first single ‘New Favourite’ back in November. “A folk pop track as playful as it is evocative,” as we put it, “owing as much to Feist as Hank Williams in the way it paints the excitingly volatile pull of new love.”
Now Shaina Hayes is back with the album’s next single. ‘Sun and Time’ is rich and nostalgic, harking back to film-grained memories of summers past as an escape from the cold clutch of the winter months. Told from the perspective of watching a friend struggle through frosty fields and grey skies, Hayes says it’s a song “for anyone who’s ever found themselves slipping into the winter blues.”
Holy weary winter this one’s something
I watch you suffering at its hand
Boggy berry princess we are fading
But I can still make out your laugh
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Watch the video below, with direction, cameras, editing and colorization by Charles-David Dubé and Flavie Lemée:
Kindergarten Heart is out on the 23rd February via Bonsound and you can pre-order it now from the Shaina Hayes Bandcamp page.
Photo by Lawrence Fafard