“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence,” Rollins said in 2009. “I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything.
“We simply want to be able to retain and manage the relationship between musician and audience without the influence of extractive corporate power,” Nicolay said during his testimony.
On their most assured record yet, the Montreal trio turns wage anxiety, modern unreality, and small acts of observation into something lean, tense, and deeply human.