Premiere: Living Hour Capture the Push-Pull of Home on “Texting”

Living Hour. Photo credit: Alex Squire.

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Winnipeg’s Living Hour have been consistently putting out some of the most dreamy, atmospheric and captivating shoegaze tracks since their self-titled debut in 2016. As their sound has continued to mature, with their fourth album, Internal Drone Infinity (out October 17), the band marks their most compelling release yet.

Co-produced with Melina Duterte (Jay Som), who also worked on their 2022 album Someday Is Today, REVERIE has been enamoured with their new record. After chatting with with vocalist and guitarist Sam Sarty about Internal Drone Infinity, their collaboration with Duterte, and how their relationship with film influences their work, we’re excited to premiere the video for the album's lead track, “Texting.”

In our interview with Living Hour, the track “Texting” came up, with Sarty saying, “We talk about Winnipeg a lot in our songs. On our new album, the song “Texting” was inspired by the process of trying to explain Winnipeg to someone over text. I needed to capture this existence and the feeling of living in Winnipeg. I have a complex relationship with the city. I was born in Newfoundland, where my mom’s from, and we moved to Winnipeg when I was one. Winnipeg is all I’ve known, but my bones and self yearn for this place where I was born. I went back last summer and felt an immediate connection that language could not explain, but my body and DNA could understand. Still, Winnipeg has always felt like home. I wanted this song to capture the complexity in my relationship to the city. Always wanting to leave, but never leaving. I wanted the lyrics to express this constant destruction and rebuilding of a place.”

Living Hour’s album Internal Drone Infinity is out today via Paper Bag Records. Check out the video for their latest track, “Texting” below.