June 3 2021 // Alex Viger-Collins // Magazine // Features
Photo credit: Melissa Gamache
As the classic thought experiment goes, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? With the COVID-19 pandemic laying waste to album releases and tours, artists had to start asking themselves a similar question; “If we release new music and no fans are around to hear it, did it really exist?”
Smack dab in the middle of that metaphorical forest was
Braids, unlucky enough to be releasing their five-years-in-the-making comeback album,
Shadow Offering, during the height of COVID-19’s first wave. With the follow-up to 2015’s