knitting - Souvenir (2026) Hi-Res

Montreal’s knitting does love the sound of their guitars (quite evident on their debut Some Kind of Heaven from 2024), but simply labelling them as a slacker band, particularly listening to Souvenir, their latest offering, would be quite a misnomer.
This detailed and nuanced guitar sound that is built up, then stripped down and then built up again is a product of frontperson Mischa Dempsey’s collaboration with guitarist/engineer Sarah Harris (Ultra Farl), bassist Piper Curtis (Sunforger), and drummer Andy Mulcair (Andy and the Dannys, Lovelet) a few years to develop and a relatively brief recording sessions, meaning that the band came to the studio with a fully-developed musical concept and it seems it has worked wonders for them.

Sure, it is a guitar-dominated sound, but it is one somewhat hard to pin down, no matter how 90s inspired it is, as if Dempsey and the band have sussed out all that went on in the 90s rock from its early grunge days to latter more melodic offerings.