Emotional, expansive, ethereal Montreal-based indie rockers Half Moon Run combine elemental alt-pop atmospherics with richly detailed, harmony-laden modern folk. The quartet of multi-instrumentalists rose to prominence in the early half of the 2010s with a pair of gold- and platinum-selling albums that evoked the lush sonic worldbuilding of Other Lives, Alt-J, and Fleet Foxes. They continued to find favor with audiences and critics alike with 2020's Juno Award-winning A Blemish in the Great Light and 2023's stripped-down and inward-looking Salt, the latter of which saw the band operating as a trio. 

Formed in 2010 around the talents of vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Devon Portielje, Conner Molander, Dylan Phillips, and Isaac Symonds, the Canadian group released their gold-selling debut, the Indica Records-issued Dark Eyes, in 2012. Propelled by the hit single "Full Circle," the album was released internationally the following year and peaked at number eight on the Canadian pop chart. Sun Leads Me On, the band's sophomore studio long-player, followed in 2015, this time hitting a number four peak and eventually going platinum on the strength of the hit single "Trust." Half Moon Run continued to tour occasionally over the next few years, returning in 2019 with the dynamic and percussive single "Then Again," which appeared on their third full-length offering, A Blemish in the Great Night. The LP won Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the 2020 Juno Awards.  

Isaac Symonds left the band and moved to Western Canada shortly after the album's release, making his last studio appearance on the 2020 EP Seasons of Change. A second EP, Inwards & Onwards, arrived in 2022. The band kicked off 2023 with the singles "Alco" and "Everybody's Moving Out East," which appeared on the full-length Salt later that year. Penned during the COVID-19 pandemic, the album tapped into the social and political anxieties of the times while maintaining a through line of hope and perseverance. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

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