somedayistoday

Tour Dates

August 12 - Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre #
August 20 - St. Malo, MB @ Rainbow Trout Music Festival 
September 6  - Minneapolis, MN @ Icehouse
September 8 - Toronto, ON @ Baby G
September 9 - Ottawa, ON @ Club Saw
September 10 - Elizabethtown, NY @ Otis Mountain Get Down
September 11 - Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo
September 13 - Boston, MA @ O'Briens *
September 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Trans Pecos *
September 15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Club *
September 16 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd *
September 17 - Richmond, VA* Gallery 5 *
September 18 - Baltimore, MD @ Joe Squared *
September 19 - Cleveland, OH @ Mahalls ^
September 20 - Grand Rapids, MI @Pyramid Scheme ^
September 21 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
September 25 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
# with Peach Pit & Yukon Blonde
* with Sour Widows 
^ with Crywank & Chastity

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Living Hour Bio

Someday Is Today
(Kanine Records / Next Door Records)
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Sam Sarty (she/her)
Gil Carroll (he/him)
Adam Soloway (he/him)
Brett Ticzon (he/him)

Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada an "inland island that floats on infinite prairie ground,” Living Hour has always been a band that’s thrived in seclusion. Suspended in the middle of a continent, Winnipeg is a place of cycles and extremes. The contrast of its seasons means the band is constantly adapting and making the most of what lies around them. Helping to foster a thriving local community and taking inspiration from the faces and places of their hometown, Living Hour have always been motivated by the belief that their own music only gets more interesting when it includes other voices.

For their new album, Living Hour followed this vein of collaboration, calling upon friends and peers from near and far to impart their talents on the ideas the band had been harvesting. The fruit of this labour is Someday Is Today, the band’s third full-length effort and the much-anticipated follow-up to their 2019 Softer Faces LP, acclaimed by the likes of NPR, Stereogum, Paste, Vice, Bandcamp, and more.

Living Hour’s core remains built around founding members Sam Sarty (Bassist/Keyboardist/Vocalist), Gilad Carroll (Guitar/Vocals), and Adam Soloway (Guitar/Vocals), who’ve been writing together since 2014, and Brett Ticzon (Bass/Keys/Drums), who joined the band in 2018. On Someday Is Today, the group collaborated with a variety of drummer friends including Jason Tait (The Weakerthans, Broken Social Scene). The group’s sound is fleshed out further with the help of album’s three producers: Melina Duterte (Jay Som, Bachelor, Chastity Belt), Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail, The Drums), and Samur Khouja (Cate le Bon, Deerhunter, Regina Spektor), all of whom impart their own backgrounds on the album’s finished glow. 

Composed of eleven new songs, Someday Is Today is Living Hour at their most pensive and longing. The vulnerable lyrics are brought beautifully to life by lush and generous instrumentation that winds its way through the album. It was recorded over seven straight days during the dark depths of a Manitoba winter, with the band cocooned in the sounds they were making as the temperature hit -30 outside the door. “It’s a grind, and it’s incredibly challenging in a frustratingly beautiful kinda way,” Sarty says of their local environment. “It pushes you to keep going, to keep finding glimmers to move forward. A silver piece of wrapper sticking out a snowbank becomes your altar. The big grey sky gets me giddy.”

The recording process of Someday is Today wrapped up months of disjointed, electronic correspondence between the band members, all of whom spent 2020 in greater seclusion than they were accustomed to, recording ideas into phones and computers before sharing them with each other via zoom calls. The demos were built up remotely, piece-by-piece, in great contrast to the in-person rehearsals that had been so fundamental to their previous work.

This fractured breed of creativity naturally drifted into the songs themselves. Sam Sarty’s lyrics – pulled from journals, iPhone notes, and napkin scribbles – come suffused with reflections on disassociation, human interactions with technology, and a poignant contemplation of life in liminal spaces. The album’s cover artwork ties into these themes, with a vulnerable belly button peeking out from a pair of jeans. 

Musically, the band’s sound grows to warm and earthy new perimeters on Someday Is Today. There’s the chugging brilliance of ‘Feelings Meeting,’ a collaboration with Jay Som, which immediately redefines the band’s capabilities. A rousing encapsulation of the album’s moods, it sways woozily between Sarty’s soothing voice and heavy instrumental breaks, the quiet/loud dynamics shift the tempo unexpectedly from crushing highs to breathy lows. 

Elsewhere, ‘No Body’ speaks directly to dissociation. Sarty’s fragile voice is backed by a slow ripple of percussion, describing a brooding, dark mood that drifts through a restaurant room by day with its faded laminate menus and faceless customers. “I’m staring at the sugar cube, it always has reminded me of you in softer hues,” Sarty sings with palpable despondency. A subtle juxtaposition,  ‘Miss Miss Miss’ showcases the band’s colourful experimental workings, the track offering a playful layering of their sound where clipped beats and splashes of synth conjure a languid groove that balances the emotional weight of the record.

The first Living Hour album to share lead vocals across different songs, Someday Is Today thrives by keeping just enough connection across its various sonic and thematic palettes for the whole thing to feel like one cohesive world. Whether it's the album’s soft and gorgeous harmonies or the captured sound of wind tubes being swung above their heads, the songs here feel bound by something bigger than themselves; an energy that flourished in spite of it all, a human connection that grips just strongly enough even when pushed to its frayed, unreachable extremes.

  • Tom Johnson

Someday Is Today Album Credits

Living Hour is Sam Sarty, Adam Soloway, Gilad Carroll, Brett Ticzon

All songs written and produced by Living Hour 
Additional production by Jonathan Schenke, Melina Duterte, Samur Khouja

Engineered by Will Grierson and Arthur Antony at No Fun Club and Collector Studios and by us in our jam space in Treaty 1, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 

Mixed by:
Jonathan Schenke - December Forever, Curve, Miss Miss Miss, Exploding Rain
Melina Duterte - Lemons & Gin, Feelings Meeting, Middle Name, No Body
Samur Khouja - Hold Me In Your Mind, Hump, Good Afternoon, Memory Express

Mastered by Sarah Register

Front cover painting by Alyss Estay
Design and layout by Clare Byrne

Sam Sarty - Vocals, Trombone, Bass, Baritone, Casio, Synths, Piano, Wind Tube
Adam Soloway - Vocals, Electric + Acoustic Guitar, Keyboard, Synth, Piano, Shaker, Tambourine, Vibraphone, Drum Machine, Wind Tube
Gilad Carroll - Vocals, Electric + Acoustic Guitar, Synths
Brett Ticzon - Bass, Drums, Keyboard, Synths
Jason Tait - Drums, Percussion on Hump, Lemons and Gin, No Body, Exploding Rain. Synth on Good Afternoon + Lemons and Gin. Vibraphone on Memory Express.
Ben Lumsdaine - Drums on Hold Me In Your Mind + Middle Name
Brain Gluck - Drums on Curve + Memory Express
Alex Rand - Bass on Curve

Expanded song credits:
Hold Me In Your Mind
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Keyboard
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Keyboard
Brett Ticzon - Bass, Synth
Ben Lumsdaine - Drums
Samur Khouja - Mixing

Lemons & Gin
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Baritone Guitar
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar
Brett Ticzon - Bass
Gilad Carroll - Acoustic Guitar
Jason Tait - Drums, Percussion, Synth
Melina Duterte - Mixing

Middle Name
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Keyboard
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar
Brett Ticzon - Bass, Synth
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Ben Lumsdaine - Drums
Melina Duterte - Mixing

Feelings Meeting
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Bass, Baritone Guitar
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Tambourine
Brett Ticzon - DrumsGilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Melina Duterte - Vocals, Guitar, Synth, Mixing

December Forever
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Keyboard
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Shaker
Brett Ticzon - Drums, Bass, Synth
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Jonathan Schenke - Mixing

Curve
Sam Sarty - Trombone, Vocals
Adam Soloway - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synth, Tambourine
Alex Rand - Bass
Brian Gluck - Drums
Jonathan Schenke - Mixing

Hump
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Keyboard
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Shaker, Vocals, Vibraphone
Brett Ticzon - Bass
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Jason Tait - Drums
Samur Khouja - Mixing

Miss Miss Miss
Sam Sarty - Vocals
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Synth, Tambourine, Drum Programming
Brett Ticzon - Bass, Keyboard
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Jonathan Schenke - Mixing

Exploding Rain
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Keyboard, Trombone, Synth
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Vocals, Shaker
Brett Ticzon - Bass
Gilad Carroll - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Jason Tait - Drums, Percussion
Jonathan Schenke - Mixing

No Body
Sam Sarty - Vocals, Bass
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar, Drum Machine
Brett Ticzon - Bass
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Jason Tait - Drums
Melina Duterte - Mixing

Memory Express
Sam Sarty - Bass, Vocals, Synth, Whirly
Adam Soloway - Electric Guitar
Brett Ticzon - Keyboard
Gilad Carroll - Electric Guitar
Brian Gluck - Drums
Jason Tait - Vibraphone
Samur Khouja - Mixing