For Immediate Release:

March 31, 2026

KNITTING ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM SOUVENIR,

 VIA MINT RECORDS, OUT JUNE 26, 2026 - PRE-SAVE

MONTREAL BAND FOLLOW UP THEIR 

BUZZY 2024 DEBUT SOME KIND OF HEAVEN

NEW SONG “I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING” OUT TODAY,

WITH CAMPY, PLAYFUL MUSIC VIDEO - WATCH

NEW ALBUM EXPLORES MEMORY AND TEXTURES OF WHAT WE TAKE WITH US

Photo Credit: Celeste Midori // Download High-Res Photo HERE

“Personal yet sharp, tumultuous yet even-keeled, referential yet original.”

— Stereogum

“A wonderful band”

— Nardwuar

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

APRIL

2 - Ottawa - Saw Centre *

3 - Peterborough - Sadleir House

4 - Toronto - The Cameron House *

11 - Montreal - La Sotterenea * #

* with sasha cay

# with Hiding Places

KNITTING

SOUVENIR

MINT RECORDS

Release date: June 26, 2026

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1. I Want To Remember Everything

2. Sunrise

3. Here Comes

4. Photocopy

5. I Wasn’t Fully Cooked

6. Shuffle

7. Gift Horse

8. Sequel

9. Exit Desire

ABOUT KNITTING:

After enthralling guitar fiends with their tight yet confessional 2024 debut album Some Kind of Heaven, knitting didn’t have to retreat for very long before they had an entirely new album on their hands. Souvenir is the product of frontperson Mischa Dempsey’s existential musings, dreamed up in what little downtime they had between their debut album cycle, world tours, plus appearances at SXSW and New Colossus Festival. Dempsey constructed the skeletons of each song on Souvenir, while guitarist/engineer Sarah Harris (Ultra Far), bassist Piper Curtis (Sunforger), and drummer Andy Mulcair (Andy and the Dannys, Lovelet) brought the songs to life over brief but productive studio sessions in St. John’s, NL and Montreal, QC. After extensive collaboration over the past two years on writing, recording, and touring, learning how to make that collaboration work its magic, knitting crafted Souvenir into a properly introspective sonic experience. 

In the two years since knitting introduced themselves on Some Kind of Heaven, the fledgling band has, in a sense, grown up. As level-headed as the Canadian band may be, owing to their decade-plus of DIY experience, the highs and lows of completing, releasing, and promoting a debut indie rock album showed the band what they can control themselves and what’s out of their hands. While the band’s earliest performances showed strength, owing to each member’s teenage years spent learning how to be good bandmates, they were a little green when it came to releasing professionally. You have to be green to dive head-first like they did. Some Kind of Heaven sports a consistently ‘gazey, grungy slacker rock aesthetic, earning comparisons ranging from DIIV to Hole to Alex G, jumping between songs discussing everything from trans identity to domestic doldrums. Eager audiences across North America and Europe responded right away. In 2026, knitting is a little more seasoned, less interested in making a big splash as they are in honing their craft and pushing their creative limits. The resurgent Montreal DIY scene is a consistent source of inspiration for the band, and they wanted the scene’s sonic diversity to be reflected on their next album. For Souvenir, their sonic palette has the same centerpiece but far more breadth, while every song has an introspective, existential backbone. It’s an inversion of Some Kind of Heaven’s aesthetically tight narrative bricolage. The album came together over studio sessions in Dempsey & Mulcair’s home of Montreal, Quebec, and Harris’ home of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

As knitting has grown from a lockdown experiment into a working band, each member has expanded their skill sets, allowing the band to accomplish more on their own or within their web of friendships. They didn’t rehearse much before holing up in the studio, owing to their cramped schedule, so Dempsey’s germinal ideas needed the rest of the band’s unique perspectives to usher final drafts and recordings into something fruitful. Mulcair’s drumming is more intricate and full of surprises; Harris taking the engineer’s helm meant the band didn’t have to translate their unique internal language to a third party. As the songs on Souvenir were primarily produced in Harris' studio, the tracks benefited from more extensive experiments with the drum machines and synthesizers that studio-mates had lying around. Their occasional prominence speaks to an eagerness to grow beyond the strictures of a rock band format. The band’s dear friend Rhys Climenhage took charge of the mixing, owing to knitting’s increased belief that tapping your network’s talent leads to a better final product than pursuing so-called prestige outside, since even the finest engineers can’t approximate what your friends can intuit from years of casual rapport. Souvenir sounds introspective and even woeful, but it listens like something more relaxed: you can hear the mutual understanding between every performer, each using their individual talents to help translate nuanced or hard-to-verbalize sensations. There’s nothing more satisfying than hearing a band find their groove and revel in it.

Today, knitting is Montreal-based Mischa Dempsey, Andy Mulcair, and Sarah Harris. Their sophomore album, Souvenir, is out June 26th on Mint Records.

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