Comes in a 4-panel digitpak with a beautiful 24 page CD booklet containing historical photographs and quotes accompanying each track. Graphic design by Emanuel Ilagan.
Includes unlimited streaming of This Troubled Land
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
“A hundred years hence the people of Toronto will point to 1930 as the year in which the citizens decided that their city should take its place among the great cities of the continent, properly equipped for the handling of modern traffic, with wide streets lined by business places and public buildings of stately architecture...”
Toronto Star editorial on proposed Cambrai Avenue and Vimy Circle, 1930.
"No idea is perfect or universally loved in its time — they are simply choices that would have fundamentally changed the way we experience our city. Some have earned a second chance, others
seem to exist in a perennial state of study. And there are the others — the grand boulevards that will never happen, because you get only a brief chance to build a downtown.”
“The five greatest ideas Toronto never built”, Toronto Star, 26 January 2014.
lyrics
If I walked another path
and chose to love,
I wonder how
things might have been
you in my arms
a shadow on the wall
chasing a memory
Amber light
in the hallway
fire flies
shimmering
bringing you back
to my heart
to my centre
in a dream
innocent
Amber light
in the hallway
fire flies
shimmering
bringing you back
to my heart
to my centre
in a dream
innocent
If I walked another path
and chose to love
well I wonder how
things might have been
you in my arms
a shadow on the wall
chasing a memory
credits
from This Troubled Land,
released October 11, 2016
Mackenzie Longpre – composition & drum kit
Alexandra Tait – lyrics & vocals
Neil Whitford – electric guitar
Hayoun Lee – piano
Matthew Roberts – double bass
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