WATCH / SHARE “GLUE” HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 24
SUBTERRANEA, OUT NOW VIA MOTHLAND
BUY / STREAM SUBTERRANEA HERE
"As you tear away pieces, a network of dark emotions are found in the recesses of a person’s mind, and they can’t wait to escape on Subterranea. ...distorted metaphors, cascading synth work, batshit drumming, and frenzied guitar" - Northern Transmissions 9/10
"revels in post-punk intensity, echoing the dark passion of Joy Division. … direct and concise songwriting” - Exclaim!
“Thirteen tracks weave in and out of tight spaces, focused vignettes that effervesce and pop as soon as they’re born.” - RANGE Magazine
“the post-punk, synth-rock songs are melodic and assured while still carrying a sonically adventurous edge.” - Calgary Herald
"Sunglaciers are already criminally underrated and a must add to your playlist [...]" - Sidewalk Hustle
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Next week, Sunglaciers will head out on the road supporting their latest LP, Subterranea, which is available everywhere courtesy of Mothland. Full tour dates can be found below. To help pave the way, Evan Resnik and Mathieu Blanchard (the pair behind Sunglaciers) are sharing the new video for album track “Glue”, a 90s inspired song that shows off an entirely different side of Sunglaciers’ sonic personality, merging triumphant Walkmen-esque trumpets with a ripping guitar solo from Chad VanGaalen.
Of the video, directed by Resnik, he says, “The simplistic lyrics of ‘Glue’ disguise underlying themes of possession, decay, and expectation. The pressures we feel from the outside mutate into something we perceive to be coming from within, endlessly pursuing things we don't need, or even want, while trudging through existence. But it works the other way too - misinterpreting the outside world to fit our egoistic desires. It's about transcending these burdens and moving on without a care in the world. In the video I played around with these ideas using echoes, mirroring, and general fucking around. I haven't done many videos so I'm learning a lot and having fun. It's a psychotic frenzy, but there's some beauty in there.”
WATCH / SHARE “GLUE” HERE
MORE ABOUT SUBTERRANEA
Like their name might suggest, Sunglaciers’ music blurs the boundaries between dazzling indie-rock melodicism and icy post-punk experimentation. On the Calgary quartet’s sophomore album, Subterranea, co-produced by hometown hero Chad VanGaalen and mixed by acclaimed engineer Mark Lawson (Yves Jarvis, The Unicorns), they carve out new sonic spaces with laser focus. While past releases found the band exploring a maximalist approach, these 13 songs emerge and vanish in rapid succession, never outstaying their welcome.
WATCH / SHARE “OUT OF MY SKULL” HERE
“We tried to write vertically instead of horizontally,” explains multi-instrumentalist Blanchard. “Our last album Foreign Bodies and the EPs that came before it had lots of long songs with different parts drifting back and forth. For this album, we decided to strip our songs down to two or three minutes with only a few ideas in each of them.”
Sunglaciers initially came together in 2017 as a collaboration between Blanchard and lead vocalist Resnik, both of whom handle an array of instruments and co-production duties on Subterranea. As Blanchard completed his studies to become a doctor working in family medicine and addiction, and Resnik returned from a hitchhiking trip through France, the duo decided to form a new musical project. The past five years have found them steadily growing in popularity, sharing stages with acts such as Omni, Preoccupations, and Daniel Romano, while topping the charts of campus radio stations in Western Canada.
WATCH / SHARE “AVOIDANCE” HERE
When COVID-19 put Sunglaciers’ tour plans on pause, they shifted their focus to songwriting, dedicating 40-plus hours per week to music in the early months of 2020. Subterranea was recorded in the unusual location of On Air Studios, a professional voiceover studio owned by former member Bruce Crews. This extended timeframe taught them skills in engineering, while also allowing for experiments such as swapping the instruments that each member typically plays (an oblique strategy used on Portishead’s Third and David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”). Chad VanGaalen fleshed out the songs further with vocal and instrumental contributions, while the band welcomed other guests such as harpist Jennifer Crighton (Hermitess) and hip-hop / black metal vocalist Louis Cza (Roman66, The Black Greek God).
The result is an urgent and cohesive full-length statement, drawing on influences from the high drama indie-rock of Deerhunter, Total Control’s post-punk tenacity, and the woozy grooves of BEAK>.
WATCH AND SHARE “DRAW ME IN” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “BEST YEARS” FEAT. CHAD VANGAALEN HERE
“The bulk of this album came together during the pandemic and the changing of gears that we had to do,” says Resnik. “I was out of work and Mathieu was working half as much as usual, so we had lots of time on our hands. We flipped a switch and started playing music everyday. It’s a good indicator of how we were writing at the time while we wrapped our heads around some new gear and saw what came out of it. Essentially, we took all of our favourite musical tendencies and put them together. We were listening to a lot of McCartney II at the time and loved how eclectic it was, which led to us mirroring that vibe.”
BUY / STREAM SUBTERRANEA HERE
TOUR DATES
Sep 24 - Calgary, AB
Sep 28 - Eugene, OR
Sep 29 - Portland, OR
Oct 01 - Los Angeles, CA
Oct 02 - San Diego, CA
Oct 03 - Long Beach, CA
Oct 05 - Seattle, WA
Oct 07 - Vancouver, BC
Oct 08 - Victoria, BC
Oct 22 - Edmonton, AB
Nov 04 - Toronto, ON
Nov 05 - Windsor, ON
Nov 07 - Chicago, IL
Nov 09 - Cleveland, OH
Nov 10 - Philadelphia, PA
Nov 11 - New York, NY
Nov 14 - Washington, DC
Nov 15 - Boston, MA
Nov 17-19 - Montreal, QC - M For Montreal
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