New Music Thursday

Montréal based indie pop duo Down With Space are vocalist/guitarist Rob Helsten and drummer Steve Dumas – the partnership of an English speaker (Helsten) and a French speaker (Dumas) who have found an understanding through music when language can sometimes elude communication.

Their confident new single, “Know I Know,” is about being able to see what’s really going on. We’ve all encountered it before – you meet a guy who tells you what you want to hear but you see through it. There’s something else happening, something beneath the surface, and what you are getting is a sugar coated version, tailored to whom it may concern. But you know better, you see the truth and what’s worth.

VENNA is an indie alt-pop artist from Edmonton, Alberta with a passion for evocative lyricism. She holds an immense appreciation for the power that music has to effect change and self-realization, and strives to be the type of artist that can both intrigue and relate to her audience.

New single, “Only,” was inspired by a toxic relationship dynamic. This song explores the weaponization of infidelity between two people who’ve both been hurt before, and their fight for power over one another.