knitting announce second album, Souvenir

Souvenir follows knitting's 2024 debut, Some Kind of Heaven. The new album is focused on the memories that people carry through life, with each song being compared to the experience of opening a locket. "I Want To Remember Everything" serves as an introduction to this theme, with knitting reflecting on what it's like to be "the weird kid", and learning how to reconnect with your authentic self in adulthood.

Speaking about the song, songwriter and frontperson Mischa Dempsey says: “'I Want to Remember Everything' was one of the first songs that really came together for the album. It draws inspiration from the movies, music and TV that made me feel really seen as a kid, but that maybe my friends weren’t so into. My dad had a lot of random songs and music videos on our family computer that he’d downloaded from Limewire, one of them being a fan video edit of a Linkin Park song that me and my siblings would watch on repeat. That was a big inspiration for the overall feel of this song, along with the 1996 movie Harriet the Spy. 'I Want to Remember Everything' is a love letter to the weirdo I was when I was a kid, and as a way to try to reconnect with the parts of myself I hid away as I was growing up.”

Souvenir sees knitting expand on the slacker rock sound established on Some Kind of Heaven with more depth, having drawn inspiration from the diversity of Montreal's DIY scene. The album was made across studio sessions in Dempsey and drummer Andy Mulcair’s home of Montreal, Quebec, and guitarist and engineer Sarah Harris’ home of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Souvenir artwork

Souvenir tracklist

"I Want To Remember Everything"
"Sunrise"
"Here Comes"
"Photocopy"
"I Wasn’t Fully Cooked"
"Shuffle"
"Gift Horse"
"Sequel"
"Exit Desire"