Pre-order of Like Before. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases March 29, 2024
$10CAD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Like Before on black 12" Vinyl. Pressed in Vancouver!
Heimi printed tote bag included with pre-orders
Includes digital pre-order of Like Before.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around March 29, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$25CADor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Like Before on cassette! Comes in baby blue.
Includes digital pre-order of Like Before.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Please don’t be what I thought
When I first saw you
Cause it has already been
Haunting me lately
And I already have everything
That I want and that I need
Don’t be kind
Say something truly hurtful
And I will rest and slump into my seat
Cause I’m getting tired
Trying to be everything
That you want and that you need
I thought that I was done
I thought so wrong and now what
Please hurt me darling
And I’ll be better
One day
I know I got you
Sleeping though my noise
You sleep so soundly
Do you get much sleep
You take care of me
I’m such a fool
Cause I’m not always here
And I know
That I’ll be dust one day
I forget always
Yet you take care of me
12.
Matter
about
Building upon their 2021 release Not in Love, which largely focused on longing for a romantic relationship, Non La’s most recent album reckons with what happens when that desire becomes a reality. Like Before is a 12-track alt-pop meditation on long term relationships, the difficulty of recognizing care in routine, and the struggle to do better than whatever maladapted form of love your parents were modelling. Despite the universality of these themes, Non La brings a specifically queer focus to the genre including tracks discussing meeting your partner in a bathhouse and how/if to ever tell your family (“Dark Room”), and the conflicting insecurities (“Hurtful”) and reassurances (“Like Before”) that arise from non-monogamy.
As the crush of Not in Love deepened into the romance of Like Before, the band’s musicality has shown similar growth. Rich, nuanced, and more self-assured, the sound on Like Before combines the band’s notorious energy and grit with a new sense of tenderness, resulting in some of the most vulnerable and hard-hitting songs in Non La’s repertoire. From the soaring vocal melodies of “Into the Water”, to the dark, contemplative grunge of “I Don’t Want to Know,” Like Before is simultaneously intimate, loud, soft, and scathing. With this album, Non La provides another crucial contribution to Canada’s queer rock milieu.
credits
releases March 29, 2024
Written and performed by DJ On
Recorded at choms
Engineered by Gal Av-Gay
Mix and mastered by Sal Duncan
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