New Music from Aidan Knight

Jon Doyle — Fri, 22 May 2015 13:26:28 +0000

British Columbian songwriter Aidan Knight is set to follow-up his brilliant albums Versicolor and Small Reveal with a third, as of yet unnamed album coming this fall. Produced by Marcus Paquin and mixed by Mathieu Parisien, the LP will be released on Canadian label Outside Music. Details are pretty scarce but you can listen to the first single, ‘The Arp’, right now. Near-seven minutes in length, it starts off as a smooth and kinda groovy soft rock track which threatens several crescendos before the horned-filled celebratory climax around the halfway mark. “What a life I have lived,” Knight sings, “Can I live it again?” But the song has not burned out, remaining as a glowing ember for a further minute before sparking back into life for the closing stretch, a swirling dream of guitars and wordless vocals which ebb and flow until the end.

The album will be out sometime this Autumn on Outside Music. We’ll bring you more as and when we get it. In the meantime, Knight featured on this mix of Canadian music we made with the ever-reliable HI54LOFI, so why not give that a spin?

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Aidan Knight – Small Reveal

Jon Doyle — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Small Reveal is the second album from British Columbian singer-songwriter Aidan Knight. The catch is that on the new album he can no longer really be considered a singer-songwriter at all as his bandcamp now describes the term “Aidan Knight” as the namesake of an experimental folk quintet. The notes on the page list eight other musicians who contributed to the album, and the presence of this backing band sees a marked departure from the gentle folk stylings of Knight’s debut, 2010’s Versicolour. This transformation is evident from the get-go, opener ‘Dream Team’, starts as a familiar gentle folk song but erupts into full blown indie rock at the five minute mark. The rest of the album straddles the line between folk and rock and also contains three instrumental tracks (Figures I, II and III). Album closer ‘Margaret Downe’ is a return to hushed folk and beautifully tells the story of an ill-fated relationship. It is an triumph of songwriting and makes me very interested to see where Knight goes from here. As a bonus check out the track played fully acoustic in a video courtesy of Vancouver Is Awesome and Amazing Factory Productions (which was brought to my attention by the ever-brilliant Slowcoustic).

The album is available for purchase over at Bandcamp and comes highly recommended.

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