Fen "Dear Mouse"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Progressive Alternative Rock/Metal
Format: digital
Release date: September 12, 2024

Tracklist

1. Ritual Lite

2. Recall

3. Season to Live

4. The Password is I Believe

5. Dying on a Hill (of Cubicle, Window, Steel, and Concrete)

6. The Seam of the Heart

7. Our Latest Quarry

8. E.D.B.D.

9. Dear Mouse

10. Into the Blaze

Credits

Randall Stoll: drums

Jeff Caron: bass (1-9)

Sam Levin: guitar, piano, programming, bass (10)

Doug Harrison (Slug Comparison): vocals, lyrics

Sheldon Zaharko of Zed Productions: tracked drums and bass, and mixed

Album mastered by Andy Vandette at Evolve Mastering

All songs written by Fen

Oil paintings by Jason Froese

Paintings documented by Kevin Gregoire

Description/Reviews:

Fen’s sixth album, Dear Mouse, breaks a twelve-year silence. It looms at a crossroads of genres and brings together elements taken from throughout the band’s discography. “Seam of the Heart” is a multi-movement composition whose lyrics resonate with their eerie concept album, Heron Leg. “Ritual Lite” competes for poppiest melody with both Congenital Fixation and Of Losing Interest. Throughout the album, the guitar work shapeshifts from jagged riffage to ethereal textures, offering a summary of decades of refinement.

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