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Listen to Kristian North s New Album Passion Play
The record features previously released singles Halfway to Heaven, Fantasy, Genius of Song and Shadow of the Pyramids
Published Apr 30, 2021
After doling out a handful of singles earlier this year, former Babysitter frontman Kristian North has now delivered his sophomore solo album
Passion Play in full. The record arrives today through Montreal-based label Mothland, and you can listen to it in full here at Exclaim!
Featuring previously released singles Halfway to Heaven, Fantasy, Genius of Song and Shadow of the Pyramids, the album finds North trading in his guitars for synths and drums machines, conjuring an 80s sensibility through
Montreal s Kristian North Shares New Single Genius of Song
The track appears on his forthcoming sophomore album Passion Play
Photo: Georgia Graham
Passion Play next month, and today, the artist has shared another new track from the record.
His latest single Genius of Song finds North questioning, in a fantastically meta fashion, how one should go about making a song.
He explained further in a release: I saw The
Genius of Painting in Spain. I d never heard of it but I love that idea. To me, this album looks like that, like a gaudy baroque painting. If not that, it looks like a technicolour Hollywood drama.
Kristian North Announces New Album Passion Play, Shares Fantasy
Passion Play, which arrives on April 30 via Montreal s Mothland. Fantasy comes with its own Phil Osborne-directed video, which you can watch down below. Kristian brought up the idea of capturing the times we are in, Osborne said in a statement. With the curfew in mind, we cooked up a little dystopian sci-fi style intro, a bit of dark humour which quickly transitions to a one-man disco party.
Drawing inspiration from the likes of Sparks, George Michael and Roxy Music, the track finds North s channelling disco, groove and pop sensibilities, in harmony with his most analogue record to date.