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“...a lemonade-and-hammock number from Summersets, ...a wedding vow or something for shared whispers in the dark.” The Globe and Mail ( on “never love another”)
“...a melancholic reminder of far off travels, calmingly reassured by Mattson and Sowka’s charming vocal and guitar melodies. It’s easy on the ears, and easier on the heart." - Dusty Organ ( on “anywhere you go”)
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Today, summersets, the duo of Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka, are sharing their first new music of 2021. “afterthought” is “another new chapter for us as a band, but also for the two fictional characters we chronicled in our debut EP, small town saturday,” says Mattson. “Each verse flips perspective from each character as their relationship seemingly comes to an end, a car crashes, and they both run through their regrets.”
“afterthought” was once again produced by long time collaborator Jim Bryson (Kathleen Edwards, The Weakerthans), mixed by Dan Ledwell (Jenn Grant) and featuring strings from Kinley Dowling (Hey Rosetta).
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The 29-year old Mattson first gained public attention by writing the Polaris Music Prize nominated 2014 album Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, that dealt with the death of his mother who passed when he was 16 years old. It was during the recording and touring of that album that Mattson and Sowka began their longtime musical collaboration. “The whole summersets project came from a place of desperation and inspiration. After my last solo album, I felt so beaten down by the music industry, but once Andrew and I began writing and singing these songs together I was so energized by the process, making music was fun again.”
This project is both the musical start for Sowka and Mattson and also the start of a multi-part story to be told over the course of a larger collection of songs. As the two sing on “More Less” from small town saturday, ‘Some nights when I remember the two of us way back when, cigarettes and soft Septembers, the more beginning the less we end’.