Welcomer turn Calendars into a soft reckoning with time zones and memory

Welcomer’s Calendars arrives on 12 June with a title that quietly carries a lot of emotional weight. Calendars are how we pretend time can be organised, even as memory, distance and longing keep ignoring the grid. Produced and engineered by Jesse Austin-Stewart and Miles Sutton, the album was recorded in Wellington with additional sessions in London, Paris and Kawerau, which gives the record an immediate sense of movement and separation. The tags place it in alternative, indie rock, emo and folk territory, a fitting blend for songs that likely care about feeling as much as form. New Zealand guitar music often travels with a certain melodic openness, and Welcomer seem to be working in that tradition while adding a more personal, diaristic edge. Calendars sounds like a record about days passing, places changing and songs becoming the thread between them.

Source: https://welcomer.bandcamp.com/album/calendars