HANNAH GEORGAS & LYN HEINEMANN’S NEW PROJECT, SO FAINT, RELEASES SELF-TITLED DEBUT RECORD
SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP OUT TODAY VIA BEETLE BOMB RECORDS
WATCH / SHARE “BEGIN AGAIN” HERE
BUY / STREAM SO FAINT DEBUT LP HERE
BUY SO FAINT VINYL HERE
TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 20 | FULL DATES LISTED BELOW
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"shimmers, jangles and rocks with attitude" The Globe & Mail
"...an extremely promising earworm full of yearning," - Stereogum (on “Fully Slow”)
“...their first single is a comforting invitation into what feels like best friendship.”
|- CBC Music (on “Fully Slow)
“...lolloping, light loops, each rotation burrowing itself deeper into your subconsciousness.” - Georgia Straight (on “Fully Slow”)
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Today, So Faint, the collaborative project of Lyn Heinemann and Hannah Georgas, release their self-titled album on a new label founded by Georgas called Beetle Bomb Records. So Faint was born from a chance encounter in a Vancouver recording studio and shaped by a decade-long friendship. After years on separate paths, with Lyn stepping away from bands, but still writing music for herself and Hannah building an acclaimed international music career that has recently seen her join Broken Social Scene for their latest LP Remember The Humans, the two reunited in 2023 to create the music they’d been quietly missing.
To celebrate the release of the record, So Faint are sharing the new video for “Begin Again”, a song about “being stuck in cycles of indecision and effort that can feel meaningless,” explains Georgas. “And it’s also about hope for a future after the relationship is over, where it feels good to be alone. The fantasy of feeling somehow brand new and desirable in this unrealized future state.”
WATCH / SHARE “BEGIN AGAIN” HERE
MORE ABOUT SO FAINT
So Faint’s self-titled debut lands with the kind of quiet confidence that makes its charms feel inevitable. The melodies are sticky in an unflashy, hard-to-engineer way, unfurling gently before looping back in your mind hours later. There’s a coziness to these songs, but it’s paired with a sense of discovery: crunchy guitar hooks and bright melodic turns slip into subtly shifting time signatures, nudging the arrangements just far enough off-center to keep things alive. It’s music that clearly understands pop structure, but treats it less like a blueprint and more like a suggestion. The record’s real momentum comes from the push and pull between its two songwriters, Hannah Georgas and Lyn Heinemann. Their sensibilities orbit the same melodic gravity while arriving from different trajectories, and the tension between those approaches gives the album its shape. You can hear the seriousness with which both approach songwriting, not in any heavy-handed way, but in the careful balance of instinct and restraint that lets these songs feel both effortless and meticulously built.
WATCH / SHARE "FULLY SLOW" HERE
WATCH / SHARE "CHAIN CHAIN CHAIN" HERE
Lyrically, the album is unflinching but never heavy-handed. Heinemann’s reckoning with the sudden death of a best friend and the collapse of a long-term relationship threads through songs about dissolution, isolation, and the strange administrative aftermath of grief. Georgas counters and compliments those themes with hard-won reflections on partnership, on inching forward out of depression and doubt. The writing is wry, self-aware, attentive to the quiet absurdities of adult expectation.
What makes So Faint addictive isn’t just its craft, it’s the tension humming underneath. The songs carry dark subject matter with disarming lightness, and an understanding that adulthood rarely offers clean narrative arcs. Instead, it gives us overlapping timelines of loss and possibility. The record sits squarely in that overlap and distills it into sharp, deceptively buoyant pop songs.
There's a rare perspective here. One half stayed in the ever-changing music industry, while the other left it to pursue a career in healthcare. Years later, they met back in the middle, sifted through the wreckage, and still found a common thread. That shared history and what they have to say about it is uniquely theirs.
BUY / STREAM SO FAINT DEBUT LP HERE
BUY SO FAINT VINYL HERE
TOUR DATES
Oct 20 - Guelph, ON - Sonic Hall
Oct 21 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
Oct 22 - Toronto, ON - Lula Lounge
Oct 23 - Kingston, ON - Broom Factory
Oct 24 - Ottawa, ON - Rainbow Bistro
Nov 06 - Vancouver, BC - The Fox Cabaret
SO FAINT TRACKLIST
01 Assistant Theme
02 Fully Slow
03 Begin Again
04 Chain Chain Chain
05 Devotion Is A Mess
06 Dreamlike
07 Economist
08 Favourite
09 Temporary Mirror
10 Say The End