(Stream The Years in its entirety above featuring new and unreleased visuals from Jamie Harley.)

Here’s a quick reminder that The Years is available just about everywhere today (UK physical release is next Monday). Also, many, many thanks to everyone that came out to see us on our recent trek with Peter Bjorn and John.

Things will remain active for us in the forseeable future with some headlining dates in Canada/U.S. this October, CMJ, The Radio Dept. Tour, and of course, much more music to be violently unleashed, Godzilla-style, upon masses both unsuspecting, and inquisitively in-the-know.

Keep up with our tour dates here.

Finally, here are some trenchant insights on The Years release, written by Denise and I. (You can read the whole thing here).

“As a kind of unifying aesthetic, The Years was created with many references to the author Virginia Woolf. The title of the EP quoting her 1937 novel by the same name, To the Lighthouse a 1927 novel, ‘The Waves’, a song on the original release, another novel written in 1931. Despite popular belief, it wasn’t because of the connection to the beach (why would it be?), but to the theme of the passage of time.

For the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with the illusion of how time seems to overlap over a consistent space. During the recording of the EP I was able to visit a house that I once lived in, but was too young to ever form a full image of it. To my knowledge, no one had lived there in at least sixteen years, but in my own mind, it had not changed since the day I left it. Of course, it was in shambles. A country home, untouched, unentered, in almost two decades. It was like I was watching the paint peel off of the walls, the basement flooding, the wet and cold seep through the windows, and still place my memories in each room they occurred. It was an eery sensation that could only really be interpreted by someone who understood the relationship one has to a specific space and time, to their own static and often distorted memory of something. Somehow Woolf understood this very well.”