Farewell to Cathedral on October 29 through Popguru Sound & Vision.
Farewell to Cathedral, which follows 2017 s
Across the Dark, was recorded over two days at Toronto s Revolution Recording. The time frame was something of a change to founding member/vocalist Will Whitwham, who on past outings felt as if sonic details and overdubs were laboured over. In comparison, the 10 songs included here show songs captured at their most live and purest stage.
On
Farewell to Cathedral, Whitwham is joined by Victoria Carr on vocals and acoustic guitar, Tavo Diez de Bonilla (Jenn Grant) on bass and vocals, and Adam Balsam (The Most Serene Republic) on drums, vocals, guitar and keyboards.
“One thing that was interesting is that people tend to drive well below our speed limit,” Balsam told Streetsblog in a phone conversation about the project on Wednesday. “The mean, median, and mode speeds were all around 18 mph… A street of this scale conveys to people that this isn’t a place to go 30 to 35 mph.
With that said, Balsam found that reckless driving was distressingly frequent.
“On average, someone was going more than 40 – over 15 mph over the speed limit – about once every 90 minutes. This is on a street where there’s a senior housing building, a daycare, a grocery store all on this block, and an elementary school not far away.”