Worthitpurchase are a Los Angeles-based experimental recording project that will return this year with their third album.
Ahead of its release the band returned with single “Big Canada”, a blend of ambient qualities over a hushed folk-driven experimental sound that sounds like you are traveling deep into a cold yet peaceful abandoned cabin in the woods. It channels artists such as Grouper, Alex G, and Big Thief.
Speaking on the track, the band adds:
“Eric, Omar and Chloe sent me this instrumental called “BIG CANADA”, which is a typical funny placeholder name for us. Between the complicated fingerpicking pattern and the 12 bit drums, the joke is that it’s like a marriage of a Big Thief and Boards of Canada song. The drum chop sounds like it’s coming off of Skype and the main guitar ended up getting recorded slightly out of tune, so we decided to embrace grainy/warped quality. It felt super nostalgic and reminded me of how life is really just a series of transients. The stream of consciousness lyrics support that, too. It really reminds me of this time of day called blue hour, which is basically a 20 to 40 minute phenomenon that happens at dawn and dusk. It’s caused by the Chappuis absorption, where the ozone absorbs a small portion of visible electromagnetic radiation from the sun, causing everything to look blue. I wanted the song to feel like that, like a snapshot of a memory.”
Enjoy a listen of “Big Canada” now below.
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