Living Hour return in peak form on Internal Drone Infinity, their fourth full-length album, out now via Keeled Scales, Paper Bag Records, and Beloved Records. The Winnipeg indie rock heavyweights lean into raw and piercing lyricism, intimate and resilient energy, and skillfully crafted shoegaze-infused alt-rock, to deliver a record that’s both expansive and emotionally direct.
Alongside the release, the band is sharing focus track, ‘Texting,’ a stripped-down, more subdued moment compared to earlier singles, but still unmistakably Living Hour. Lead singer and lyricist Sam Sarty delivers soft, hushed vocals, transforming the everyday act of texting into a deeply felt narrative. With her gift for extracting emotion from the overlooked, ‘Texting’ captures the quiet intensity — and sudden emotional weight — that can come with obsession and communication in the digital age.
“This song was inspired by the process of trying to explain Winnipeg to someone over text,” Sarty explains. “The 7-year long distance yearn-ship from “Waiter” returns here. I was constantly sending this person portions of my day through pixels–photos, videos, and obscure observations. That relationship and this documentation felt like love and also like a hobby, and like this constant candy in my mouth. I needed to capture this existence and the feeling of living in Winnipeg.”
“The song is written from this really mundane but intimate point of view, one you only have if you’ve spent a lot of time walking around the city. I used to drive a lot more. I had an ‘03 Honda Civic but the key got stuck in the ignition (this feels like a metaphor). Anyway, the world used to go by faster, but now I have to walk everywhere. I walk, and things slow down, and I notice a lot more. Like all the garbage in Winnipeg. In the winter everything disappears in the snow, but when the snow melts we’re left with the mosaic of shit. I keep a list on my phone of things I see on the sidewalk: garbage that breaks my heart or situations that I try to explain, either to myself or over text–that blue bubble carrying my thoughts somewhere else.”
Sarty continues, “I imagine Internal Drone Infinity as a series of small movies projected out from within myself. The album was written while I was working as a projectionist at a movie theatre in Winnipeg, and it’s such an internal album, so it makes sense to me that my body could exist as a projection room.
Much of the album deals with how my inner self interacts with the outside world: the places I’m from and the people I love, and the landscapes and weather that seep inside. There’s a lot of remembering and recovering–getting better and understanding who I am based on who I have been. With this, I was able to feel inside of myself. I was able to listen to the constant chatter of my mind, then give it a name and a sound.”
Living Hour—Sam Sarty, Gil Carroll, Adam Soloway, Brett Ticzon, and Isaac Tate—have crafted a compelling sonic world on Internal Drone Infinity, marked by icy vocals, grainy textures, warm twang, screeching distortion, and immersive percussion.
With Internal Drone Infinity, Living Hour expand their dreamy sound with commanding clarity—channeling quiet strength, emotional reckoning, and simmering rage into one of their most powerful statements yet.
Listen / purchase Internal Drone Infinity here.
