Returning to the craft with a renewed perspective on the paths we’ve been granted, Ry Patrick Haint writes alt-country that sits in the shadows and explores the heavy terrain of loss and the quiet sacrifices made in starting over, delivered with the sparse, haunting arrangements of Canadian Noir.

Raised on southern Vancouver Island, his songwriting is a map of a life lived in motion—from the vast windswept prairie, north through the NWT barrens, to the deserts of Afghanistan. Provinces of regret, loss, friendship, and hard-won joy. After decades in the DIY trenches of the Canadian independent alternative scene, he has traded the volume of his youth for a grounded, visceral honesty.