Richard Reed Parry

Susie Ibarra and Richard Reed Parry had heard each others’ heartbeats — in many different forms — before they ever met IRL. The artists had been commissioned by Splice in partnership with new record label OFFAIR — a venture between Universal Music Canada and Versus Creative that seeks to create deeper experiences through music — to conduct a relatively simple experiment: create music centered on the human body’s rhythms. Rather than recording to the beat of a metronome, Parry and Ibarra would compose to the rhythm of their hearts and breaths.

Dallas Good, singer and guitarist of the Sadies, passed away this week. The Toronto country-rock band’s most recent album, Northern Passages, came out in 2017. But in a tribute to Good posted on Instagram, Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry reveals that he co-produced a new Sadies album out this spring:

Arcade Fire‘s Richard Reed Parry has confirmed that he’s produced a final album by Canadian rockers The Sadies. The news comes after Dallas Good, founder of the band, died aged 48 “of natural causes while under doctor’s care for a coronary illness” this week. The...