Knitting have announced Souvenir, their second album, out June 26 via Mint Records, and shared its first single, I Want To Remember Everything. The Montreal band follow their 2024 debut Some Kind of Heaven with a record that draws from their DIY roots while shifting focus toward memory and personal history.
The single arrives with a video shot against a winter backdrop in Montreal, moving through concrete spaces and open streets as the band search for a missing object. Frontperson Mischa Dempsey wrote the track as a reckoning with childhood identity, pulling from formative touchstones including a Linkin Park fan video downloaded from Limewire and the 1996 film Harriet the Spy. “It’s a love letter to the weirdo I was when I was a kid,” Dempsey says, “and a way to try to reconnect with the parts of myself I hid away as I was growing up.”
Watch the video below:
Souvenir was recorded across sessions in Montreal and St. John’s, with guitarist Sarah Harris taking the engineering helm. The band worked within a close circle of collaborators, with mixing handled by Rhys Climenhage. The nine-track record expands the palette of Some Kind of Heaven, bringing drum machines and synthesizers into a sound that remains built around guitar.
The group formed within Montreal’s DIY network and have remained tied to it as their audience has grown. Since their debut they have played alongside Wishy, Preoccupations, Ribbon Skirt, and Wild Pink, building a following through touring. Their earlier work earned coverage in Stereogum, Pitchfork, and FLOOD Magazine.
A short run of Canadian dates is set for April, with Sasha Cay, including a Montreal show at La Sotterenea on April 11 with Hiding Places also on the bill.
Tracklist
1. I Want To Remember Everything
2. Sunrise
3. Here Comes
4. Photocopy
5. I Wasn’t Fully Cooked
6. Shuffle
7. Gift Horse
8. Sequel
9. Exit Desire
Photo – Celeste Midori
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