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1.	Lost Virtue 06:32	buy track
2.	Cicatrice 04:58	buy track
3.	Bound 06:52	buy track
4.	To Our Dead Friends 02:37	buy track
5.	Catacombs 05:27 video	buy track

about

Canadian DIY collective Respire have been crafting cinematic, genre-defying soundscapes since forming in the bitter winter of 2013, when they spent evenings and weekends honing their craft in a frigid west-end Toronto basement. Blending lush, emotive orchestration with the fervor and aggression of blackened hardcore, the seven-piece aim to create hopeful music for troubling times.

Written over two years and produced over six months, 2020's Black Line weaves an anti-fascist narrative of redemption against the backdrop of impending global climate catastrophe. It finds Respire turning away from the sickness of the self and onto the sickness ailing the world. Yet despite its towering inferno of anguish, Black Line is a call to arms - to burn away the ugliness that threatens to divide and destroy us, to reclaim agency in a world spiraling out of control, to find beauty in destruction and hope in rebirth.