Weaves detail second LP Wide Open and share lead single "#53"

The Toronto quartet are following up their self-titled debut, which arrived just a year ago. Wide Open was recorded earlier in 2017 and sees Weaves reunite with engineer Leon Taheny (Austra, Fucked Up), who worked with them on LP1.

"We got back from the tour with Mitski on 22 November and I started writing 23 November," says the group's Jasmyn Burke. "We spent three months writing and pretty much figured out the album in its entirety in that timeframe. With the year we had I think we really hit this sweet spot where your brain is fully ready for something new, but has absorbed all of this information and it all just spews out. It was all really based on initial instinct and we just sort of let music happen."

"When writing '#53' I let out how I was feeling about a lot of things," Burke adds. "Existing on the road, existing at home, living in a time when a lot of younger people feel helpless - it's all given me a new vigor and desire to be ferocious with our music."

Weaves will be playing lots of North American and European shows, beginning next month in Nebraska and ending in November with a date at Brighton's Green Door Store. Find out full details.