The future is Absolutely Free

The future is Absolutely Free

Arriving seven years after the band’s self-titled full-length debut, Absolutely Free’s Aftertouch marks a shift in focus and process for the band. Named after the synthesizer function that produces an effect once a performer depresses a key after touching it, the album addresses topics like the alienation of contemporary living through the lens of a fleeting cultural relationship to physical connection and a pronounced digital immersion.

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500 years and counting: Status/Non-Status

500 years and counting: Status/Non-Status

Status/Non-Status (formerly WHOOP-Szo) music has frequently explored Sturgeon’s complicated relationship to his Indigenous identity and the effects of Canada’s ongoing settler-colonial project, often through the experiences of those in his family; adopting the name Status/Non-Status ahead of the release of new EP 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years this past May, he now centres the project as a circumstance of his grandfather’s decision to enfranchise in order to support his family by joining the Canadian Armed Forces and become a Canadian citizen, the government’s term for the legal process of surrendering one’s and one’s family’s legal claim to Indigenous status under the Indian Act.

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