When you dig into Canadian music, you find stuff. I found this group while researching another post - for reasons that will become clear in a minute.
Take this musical duo, Once A Tree. A husband-and-wife duo, and named by Rolling Stone as one of the new artists you need to know, they met while both separately leaving their religion, Jehovah's Witnesses, and used their excommunication from their separate communities to fuel their musical creativity.
Once A Tree's music has been described as a blend of electronic, pop, and R&B. Their lyrics often touch on themes of love, loss, and self-discovery, as well as issues related to Indigenous identity and cultural preservation.
This song, from their 2017 album Phoenix, was produced by Hayden John Wolf, who also co-wrote the song. He also happens to be half of the duo, alongside his wife, Jayli, who is the other vocalist for the duo and who also co-wrote the song. It is a hauntingly beautiful and heart wrenching song, about turmoil and what looks like a near-breakup surrounding great loss.
I cannot recommend it enough.
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