BeatRoute Magazine AB Edition - November 2019

RENÉE RODENKIRCHEN
UpFront
NOVEMBER
City and Colour's large-scale
intimate experience By CODY CAETANO
D
espite the unknown cold snaps,
seasonal affective disorders,
and other come-what-mays
that usher in the first dark days
of winter, City and Colour’s sixth LP, A
Pill for Loneliness, is a dose of insight
for our changing times.
From the opening Fruit-Rollup
licks and spacey riffs of “Living with
Lightning” and the apocalyptic parade
into a “Difficult Love” to the uncanny
keys that prop up “Lay Me Down,”
the album offers 53 minutes of Dallas
Green’s company.
“It’s about trying to find a way in
this clouded 24/7, 365-day-a-year
world where you don’t need to shut
things off if you don’t want to,” Green
says of the album, speaking to BeatRoute
before soundcheck for his
first of two shows in New York. “It’s
nice to be with just your thoughts
sometimes,” he says.
APFL is currently the number one
record in Canada on the Canadian Albums
Chart and Green is twenty days
into his North American Tour with
Ben Rogers, Ruby Waters, and Jacob
Banks. Despite his high profile and
success, he still squares with those
original intentions from his Sometimes
years.
“When I first started writing, I realized
I could write to get myself out of
my own head and into a melody, and
then maybe into a song that somebody
else might be able to take something
from,” he reflects on his early
days. “That’s all I have ever wanted
and still want to do. And whether it
led me to where it led me today, or it
led me to just singing and playing in
coffee shops in St. Catherines, I would
still be doing it.”
Saturday, Nov. 9 // Pacific Coliseum (Van)
Tuesday, Nov. 12 //Scotiabank Saddledome (Cgy)
Friday, Nov. 22 // Scotiabank Arena (Tor)
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