Living hour
Acclaimed Winnipeg indie rock quintet, Living Hour announce their Magnet EP, a collection of b-sides and previously unearthed demos serving as a four-track companion to Someday is Today (2022), and their 2025 full-length, Internal Drone Infinity which is one of ten Canadian releases nominated for The Meridian Prize, being awarded this October at BreakOut West. The bundle of phrases that make up the EP are from an incubation period of a lot of TV, projecting movies for work, and general dissociative activities. “I was thinking about how people are magnets if they want to be. Attracting what they think about most, interact with or watch on screens,” says lead singer and lyricist, Sam Sarty.
Living Hour transforms the passage of time into something both urgent and sacred. Anchored by Sam Sarty’s vivid lyricism, shaped by years as a projectionist conjuring stories in a dark theater, the band explores the quiet magic hidden in everyday life. The band drifts between dreamy noise rock, folky slowcore, and fuzzy indie-pop, coining a genre all their own: “yearn-core.” With wistful vocals, textural distortion, and poetic detail, Living Hour capture the ache of memory, the mess of feeling, and the beauty in what remains.