Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

On October 14th, The Wise Hall & Lounge presents David Simard's full-band debut to Vancouver audiences in celebration of the launch of his sophomore full-length, The Heavy Wait. https://davidsimard.ca/ https://davidsimard.bandcamp.com/album/the-heavy-wait The lyrical and musical makeup of The Heavy Wait is an effortless combination of gilded European elegance and small-town noir. Simard and his band recorded most of the album in a charged, live-off-the-floor session in Arcade Fire’s old “Petite Eglise” studio. They dug in hard and deep to produce a quiet intensity so palpable and persistent that the album builds in strength with each passing track. Waves of horns and lap steel guitar, sparsely placed piano, and haunting clarinet lines, recorded later in Vancouver, rush to com... more...