Knitting Announce Sophomore Album via Mint Records; Single and Music Video Out Today

Montreal band knitting are excited to announce Souvenir, their sophomore record, out on Mint Records on June 26, 2026. In French, "souvenir" translates directly to "to remember." The record considers what we take with us in life—each song feels like opening a locket and looking onto a specific moment or memory, a world of feeling held in a few moments. Today, the band released “I Want To Remember Everything,” a track about having been a weird kid, and trying to reconnect as an adult with all the parts of yourself you tried to deny in order to fit in. It’s a striking track that gets into your soft spots, while still finding an ease in its chiming chords and driving, focused guitars. It makes for a keenly empathetic listening experience, close to the surface without feeling overly tender.

“I Want to Remember Everything” was one of the first songs that really came together for the album,” says Mischa Dempsey, the band’s frontperson. “It draws inspiration from the movies, music and TV that made me feel really seen as a kid, but that maybe my friends weren’t so into. My dad had a lot of random songs and music videos on our family computer that he’d downloaded from Limewire, one of them being a fan video edit of a Linkin Park song that me and my siblings would watch on repeat. That was a big inspiration for the overall feel of this song, along with the 1996 movie ‘Harriet the Spy’. “I Want to Remember Everything” is a love letter to the weirdo I was when I was a kid, and as a way to try to reconnect with the parts of myself I hid away as I was growing up.”

The video is a campy, whimsical visual in which the band tries to track down a treasured missing object against the intense brutalist backdrop of Montreal in the winter. It takes a playful yet wistful approach, entering an imaginative world that has one foot in childhood and one in adulthood, and highlights the undeniable, guitar-forward catchiness of the track.

WATCH “I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING” MUSIC VIDEO

LISTEN TO “I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING”

After meeting on the Montreal DIY scene, knitting released their debut full-length Some Kind of Heaven in 2024 to great acclaim, a record with unflinching lyrics, gauzy sonic layers and brooding guitars. It garnered praise from Stereogum, FLOOD Magazine, Pitchfork, and even Nardwuar.

In Canada and beyond, they've played with bands like Wishy, Preoccupations, Ribbon Skirt, and Wild Pink. With this new record on the horizon, they have a run of Canadian shows with sasha cay coming up—connect with them on Instagram at @knitting_band for more.

KNITTING TOUR 2026

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• 2 - Ottawa - Saw Centre *
• 3 - Peterborough - Sadleir House
• 4 - Toronto - The Cameron House *
• 11 - Montreal - La Sotterenea * #

* with sasha cay

# with Hiding Places