The Canyon

Rock · 2017 · 17 tracks · 1h 18m

The Canyon

Seventy-eight minutes of raw, live-to-tape rock processing profound loss. A sprawling, analog epic that trades polished emo for jagged, orchestral honesty.

It's a massive, raw, live-to-tape epic about loss that sounds like a band playing for their lives in a desert canyon.

A heavy, sprawling, and deeply human exploration of loss that feels like a physical weight being lifted through sound.

The Canyon · vs · The Used

Mournful+4.0σ

Mournful saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 1h 18m

01

For You

4:35

02

Cold War Telescreen

4:41

03

Broken Windows

4:45

04

Rise Up Lights

3:28

05

Vertigo Cave

4:25

06

Pretty Picture

4:11

07

Funeral Post

5:19

08

Upper Falls

5:34

09

The Divine Absence (This Is Water)

5:00

10

Selfies in Aleppo

4:33

11

Moving the Mountain (Odysseus Surrenders)

4:16

12

Over and Over Again

5:14

13

The Quiet War

4:11

14

Moon‐Dream

4:45

15

The Nexus

4:41

16

About You (No Songs Left to Sing)

3:47

17

The Mouth of the Canyon

5:33

Moments Worth Waiting For

The heartbreaking intimacy of the opening acoustic track where the singer's voice nearly breaks.

The massive choral explosion in the middle of a track that feels like a secular hymn.

A nearly six-minute closing track that slowly dissolves into the sound of wind and silence.

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