Braids

Braids at Terminal West, May 2014

Montreal-based Braids, who can make a legitimate claim to being our favorite band, wrote the song Snow Angel in the wake of the 2016 election, "as our collective conscience took a sharp inhale.” As vocalist Raphaelle Standell-Preston put it in a press release:

“It’s a diary entry of sorts – a snapshot of the mind grappling with our era’s endless barrage of content and destruction, continents away and close to home. *This* moment, with our world in the midst of a pandemic, is admittedly a new context. But I can’t help but sense the song speaks to feelings many of us are experiencing – uncertainty, angst and a desperate desire to make sense of it all. For me, it was deeply therapeutic to write and sing this song; saying things out loud can help us to not feel so alone, can help validate our natural fears about the future of our world, and can bring to light some of the hard questions that many of us are asking ourselves. I believe that art can change our relationship to fear. We hope this song can offer you a moment of catharsis and relief, in the same way writing and performing it has for us.”