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PREMIERE: Listen to Several Futures' new album Before You Forget

by Jeremy Mersereau

Photo: Jason Pare

Toronto trio Several Futures‘ debut album, Before You Forget, is coming soon on Forking Paths Records, but we’ve got the whole thing streaming right now below.

Before You Forget marks a more indie rock-indebted sound than their 2014 Narrative Collapse EP; this time sounding more like Daydream Nation/Goo-era Sonic Youth jamming with short-lived English post-punkers Ikara Colt than say, Bob Mould.

The (very slightly) breezier sound complements guitarist and vocalist Matt Nish-Lapidus’s pronouncements, but don’t think it’s all going to be a post-punk picnic. Straight-ahead rockers like “Deep Connection” and “Welcome To Fear City” give way to abrasive, chaotic, almost Glenn Branca-esque noise sections without warning.

Produced in an entirely DIY manner, the album was self-recorded by the band using a portable studio set-up in Toronto’s Ratspace. “We did focus on creating a mirror image song structure when we sequenced the album — you’ll find four pairs of songs that have been twinned, each pair with a similar feeling,” says bassist/vocalist/Wavelength music series co-founder Jonny Dovercourt. Someone call Olivia Dunham: Before You Forget draws inspiration from science fiction theories about parallel universes and multiple timelines.

Listen to Before You Forget in full below:

Several Futures’ Toronto album release show takes place Saturday, February 6 at CineCycle with Kurt Marble, The Sulks, and Spoils.