Living Hour and The Ophelias share the new single, “Hard To Say Goodnight”. The song marks the first collaboration between Living Hour and The Ophelias who met at SXSW 2023 and quickly became friends and fans of each other's music. The song paves the way for both bands to head out on tour together through the midwest USA this month.

"Hard to Say Goodnight" is a retro inspired love song which mixes sensibilities from indie-folk, hollowed out dream pop, and lo-fi country. With swirling strings, vocal layers and harmonies, and druggy distorted keyboard the song floats in a heavenly beauty while repeating catchy vocal hooks throughout. The flutes and violin introduce a triumphant element to the song and the mixing by Rick Spataro (Florist) adds a diy art-pop texture to the production.

Living Hour is an indie rock band from Winnipeg, MB. Their sound is distinguished by lead singer Sam Sarty's emotive vocals, a dreamy sonic palette, and creative instrumental melodies.

Living Hour sound grows to warm and earthy new perimeters on their latest album Someday Is Today with lush and generous instrumentation. The songs on Someday Is Today feel bound by something bigger than themselves; an energy that flourished in spite of it all, a human connection that grips just strongly enough even when pushed to its frayed, unreachable extremes.

The Ophelias are a band inspired by nostalgia, nature, the Midwest, horror movies, and the moon. They formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2015 when Spencer Peppet (she/her) was a senior in high school. She recruited Mic Adams (he/him) on drums and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes (she/her) on violin, and Jo Shaffer (they/she) joined on bass a few years later. They released their first album Creature Native in 2015, recorded in a friend’s living room. They signed to Joyful Noise Recordings for their next albums: 2018’s Almost and 2021’s Crocus, which both received praise from The New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and other major outlets. In that time they collaborated with Julien Baker, played with bands like Indigo de Souza, Hand Habits, Mannequin Pussy, and comedian Cat Cohen, and played festivals like SXSW, Treefort, and Nelsonville. The Ophelias are a joyfully queer band with predominantly queer and trans members, and they take pride both in their identities and vocally supporting queer & trans rights.