Set for release later this month via Window Sill Records, with a cassette edition by Aural Canyon, Seasons Turn Like Pages is a brand new album which sees Principato continue to test the boundaries of the Saapato project. As the title suggests, the record is concerned with passage of time, each of its tracks representing a snapshot of a specific period taken over a year within a forest. Experienced as a whole, the result serves as a chronicle not only of a specific time and place, but also the change and constancy which marks the annual cycle within the natural world. Lead single and opener ‘Willow’ kicks things off, not only introducing the overall tone of the release but also going some way to prepare the listener so they might experience it properly. A song written from the perspective of a dreaming dog, Willow. “Willow is a Great Pyrenees which means she’s constantly on guard, looking to protect her herd (me) from danger,” Principato explains:

When she falls asleep at night she looks like she’s dreaming so deeply, so at peace and relaxed to be off the clock. In her dream, I imagine her running through a wildflower meadow watching Canada geese pass by overhead. Observing Willow on guard when she really doesn’t have to be has led me to realize all of the ways that I am metaphorically “on guard” in my own life, and in response has helped me to try and be more like the dreaming version of Willow. It’s a song about a dog dream and at the same time about reminding myself to step back and enjoy the dream.

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Next month, Adam Finchler will release his debut full-length The Room to further expand his output. Building upon the humour and introspection of debut EP Hair Gimmicks of Apathy, the record finds Finchler drawing on the full breadth of his artistic sensibilities to better evoke the oddities of everyday life. Take opener ‘Eye Massage’, where the deadpan post-punk spirit sounds at once ominous and wryly funny. Finchler manages to explore the subjectivity and misinformation with hardly more than a handful of words, repeated and repeated and repeated like the sonification of the marketing messages that bombard us every waking minute.

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Watch the video directed by Matt Strickland below:

But don’t be fooled into thinking the sardonic and humorous nature of the album means The Room is without sincere emotion. Because while that constitutes a big part of Adam Finchler’s work, there’s always a sense of earnestness too. The title track exemplifies this side of his work, a slice of sincere if slightly surreal folk which delves into the disembodied feeling which can accompany life’s major changes. As though to experience a transition from one stage to the next is to in some way become a ghostly figure. One lacking substance to live up to the promise of the future, and unable to cease its haunting of those spaces of the past.

So I moved into a new house down the street
But the old one’s still the best place for my bike
And all of my possessions are still there
But I don’t have my old key and I have to
Leave the front door open to get in

Watch the video directed by Stephanie Delazeri below:

The Room is out via Window Sill Records on the 12th July and you can pre-order it now.

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