Decoration Day Share "Sadness in Disguise"

Decoration Day share their latest single, “Sadness in Disguise” taken from the Toronto folk band’s debut album Makeshift Future, out September 18th. Listen/Share: Decoration Day “Sadness in Disguise”

“I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying,” explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. “During that time, I found myself intellectually sorting through these complex emotions and measuring my progress within the stages of grief. Since then, I’ve learned that while there is a time for clarity and quantifiability, there is also a time for feelings to simply be felt all the way through. A time to inquire and unmask all the ways sadness presents itself, to trust the process and feel our way forward.”

“Right now,” Tiffany says, “I think we are collectively in a state of deep grieving for the world, so I hope this soundtrack can be a soothing balm in the repetitive, exhausting, courageous, incremental work of change and healing. And just as the two intertwining voices in the song support and sustain each other - may we also continue to take care of one another in these wild, wild times."

On Makeshift Future Decoration Day tells us that the only certainty in life is that it is uncertain. Crucially, the album provides movement forward through introspection, acceptance of change or embracing the chaos of the unknown. The album was recorded last summer, a premonition, perhaps, of a moment in which we’d need a resource to understand uncertainty.

Makeshift Future follows the band’s first EP, Blind Contour, released in 2017. Vocals on the record are shared between Mara Nesrallah, multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu, and guitarist Justin Orok and a lush musical backdrop is provided by clarinetist Naomi McCarroll-Butler, violinist Andrew Chung, and guest musicians Liam Cole on percussion and Ben Heard on upright bass.