This blog has a very certain palette of themes. Growing up, yes, that's one. Connections between people, the smaller and truer the better, sure. But today's theme is home. StG's home, for instance, is Montreal. We have not always lived here, some us lived away for years, some are still away, but here is where it was born and still lives. It was born out of excitement and inspiration and a delight for music, for writing, for work, for each other and all the rest.

And from an amber apartment in Montreal, comes this city's newest shimmering gem; Adam & the Amethysts and their first album Amethyst Amulet. Today, and tomorrow, are dedicated to this bright and grinning debut.

Adam & the Amethysts - "Bumble Bee"

When I saw Adam & the Amethysts play their first live show, the songs were all about home. Adam comes from Thunder Bay, and every song either related to or was described as completely unrelated to, but yes indeed indirectly related to, Thunder Bay. I didn't ask about any truth or anything about this song, because I was too caught up in the rumble of that marching drum. There's a subterranean kind of power to this song. It's a song about what's under ground, about what flows underfoot, under the bridge. And what else is this riverbank, with its rocks and its rushing, rolling water, but home? A light green fluorescent white cotton-poly sheeted home lined in chrome-bars at waist height and machines machines machines. But never, despite wanting to, despite being perfectly able to, does Adam ever explode, it's all held in, it's all kept rather civil. Civil and shaking.

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