Crystal Eyes - The Sweetness Restored

€7.00 - €16.50

Crystal Eyes - The Sweetness Restored

€7.00 - €16.50

The Sweetness Restored is a feel good self help record for the age of existential dread.
With themes of dreams, nature, love, time, resiliency, control vs. chaos, god and intimacy. How do we begin to repent?

Musically, we wanted instruments of different eras - the hammond B3 with Leslie speakers or the theravox (proudly made in Windsor, Ontario!), paired with string quartets, choirs, pianos, synthesizers and many guitars.

You'll definitely hear that we're standing on the shoulders of giants here, with our obvious love for bands like The Cure and The Beatles reflected in a re-interpreted hommage. There are many eras and textures explored, and although the record is definitely not one palette, we like the postmodern confusion it speaks to.

The Sweetness Restored was produced and engineered by Andrew Woods with Basia Bulat and recorded at Breakglass Studios in Montreal. It’s mixed by Mark Lawson, a Grammy award-winning engineer, mixer and producer who has mixed and engineered records for Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel, The Unicorns and more.

It also features performances from some exceptional Canadian artists, including Scott ‘Monty’ Munroe (Preoccupations), Eve Parker Finley, and even some back up vocals from Basia Bulat.