City and Colour: A Pill For Loneliness (2LP) [STILL RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

This is the first City and Colour album on Dallas Green's own Still Records, spread across two LPs. It went to No. 1 on the Canadian albums chart, "Strangers" climbed to No. 2 at Canadian rock radio, and the album earned a JUNO nomination for Adult Alternative Album of the Year.

This edition

• 2LP set
• First City and Colour album on Dallas Green's own Still Records
• Produced and mixed by Jacquire King, mastered by Emily Lazar

About the album

A Pill For Loneliness arrived on October 4, 2019, four years after If I Should Go Before You. Green handed the controls to producer Jacquire King, and the songs open out into long, slow-burning pieces; "Astronaut" and "The War Years" both run past six minutes.

The LP keeps its eyes on doubt and distance, but the arrangements carry it somewhere warmer: layered guitars, patient drums, and that voice floating over everything. "Living In Lightning" opens the record at a run, and "Lay Me Down" closes it in a hush.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Still Records (cat# SR001), first out in 2019.