The love-hate relationship is real.
The story of how the album, which just turned 25, was forged by the "Wacko Jacko" backlash against the pop star
Op straffe van dat ik word weg gehoond: Ik vraag me af of ik de enige ben die helemaal weg is van het kleine huis op de prairie. Ik kan compleet wegzakken in de kneuterigheid van de serie en zit niet zelden met tranen over mijn wangen te kijken. Ook zi…
If roses grow in heaven, Lord, please pick a bunch for me, and give them to my loved ones, and tell them they're from me. Something to share to show you are missing and thinking about those you have loved and lost. They will never be forgotten.
The self-titled debut from Canadian solo artist Boniface is a catalogue of their most formative coming of age experiences each moment captured in diary-like detail and set against a magnificently sprawling backdrop. Throughout the album, the musician/producer otherwise known as Micah Visser reflects on falling in love and facing heartbreak whilst struggling with identity, never failing to find an ineffable beauty within all the pain. The result is a body of work both bracingly honest and powerfully exhilarating. Growing up in Winnipeg, Visser wrote the songs for the album at home throughout their late teens and early twenties, after shifts at the local coffee shop and lost nights in the city. This intimacy has been preserved on Boniface, the songs largely recorded in the room they were written, and with Visser's brother Joey and longtime collaborator Micheal Dunn also on hand. After the addition of bassist Carter Dawson, Visser eventually travelled to London to finish up work on the LP with producer/engineer Neil Comber (Charli XCX, M.I.A., Glass Animals) who helped bring Boniface's lavish arrangements to full and dazzling life.
