KARY LIGHT 12 INCH VINYL

When Light by Kary was released in 2004, it marked the end of an era. It was a swan song for the Yarmouth-via-Halifax band of high school friends & musical co-conspirators. The bonds formed and the musical depths explored in Kary would continue over decades and reshape the Canadian indie music world, but Light captured the tense, kinetic start of something, and east coast prog-,post-, and alt-rock powder keg beginning to combust. Now a re-release via newly-minted Halifax label Cape Records celebrates this simultaneous ending and beginning of two important and influential eras of Atlantic and Canadian music.

“The album is a dark and ethereal offering that submerges the listener into its combination of nightmare imagery, grinding riffs and crashing rhythms. Never letting up to a lighter ground, the disc is anything but what its colourful package and title suggest. It’s the manifestation of a thought explored too deeply and the resulting, unwanted, realization.” (The Coast Winner of Best Halifax Local Album 2005)