Close Talker is an indie rock band from Saskatoon, Canada. The band has toured throughout North America and Europe, and has gained the attention and praise of notable publications such as NPR, Billboard, Clash, Spin, Q Magazine, and Consequence of Sound. The band works tirelessly on evolving every aspect of their craft, which has led to their strongest and most confident album to date: How Do We Stay Here?.

In so many ways How Do We Stay Here? marks a new chapter for the band. The three members leaned into the trust and foundation built over countless years of friendship to pursue a record that would be sustainable and timeless for them. Choosing to self-produce allowed the band to hold this album close to their chest while it developed organically over the course of 2018 at RMS Labs in Regina, SK. Close Talker, now more than ever, is interested in music that is timeless - music that won’t force the listener into feeling a certain way. To achieve this, the band approached each song following a code of instincts and honesty, including a list of 10 commandments by which all decisions were filtered through. How Do We Stay Here? is a testament to the band’s integrity and a desire to produce music that is original and pure. It is an album the band wrote for themselves, in hopes that the songs would carry the same meaning in 10 years, as they do today.

Close Talker is releasing a Deluxe version of How Do We Stay Here? on August 28, 2020. This comes one year after the original release of the album, featuring five brand new songs, including a remix of the acclaimed single, The Change it Brings. These songs were originally recorded in 2018 with the rest of the album, but over the course of Close Talker’s touring cycle they were re-molded into what they are today. The opening single, ‘Second Best’, talks about realizing what is most important in our lives, that the most meaningful things in life come from sharing time with the people closest to us. ‘Second Best’ previews the Deluxe album four weeks early, coming out July 31.