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This was our first single from the album. I gotta say, I always hated that mix and am thrilled with how it sounds now ☺

The title comes from the prayer. I grew up with it around, on a postcard I think. I always liked it because it’s about surviving the real world, having the right intention, a compass. It’s meant here as a promise to yourself not to lose your youth and innocence. (Good luck with that!)

Among other things, A New Devotion was and is a homage, which some people do not like. Making music that sounds like it comes from another time was deliberate and reverent—a ‘devotion’ if you want. There are various breadcrumbs to other bands and songs spread throughout—Set Me Free, Love Me Do here… On one level, the song is a nostalgic look back at discovering music as a teenager, the sweet suburban blackness/midnight mass that is riding home on the bus from somewhere with a walkman blasting. The outtro hints at the ominous things to come once you leave that teenage Eden, however. There is another city here…
Silas has an inkling something is wrong and the truth will come from his subconscious. It’s the only exit after all. You may not be able to stop ageing but never become a hologram of your best self!

-Trevor

The High Dials are an indie pop band from Montreal.
While their melodic sensibility, harmonies and jangling guitars owe an obvious debt to the 60s and power pop groups, they also draw upon shoegaze, new wave and folk sounds to create rich and varied albums. Their most recent album “Primitive Feelings” is a predatory summer mix of lo-fi grooves, acid rock guitars and razor-sharp humour.

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