- 2025-12-25
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MUSIC
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Cut Flowers Releases Debut Song “Until It's Time”
Toronto-based indie-rock band Cut Flowers, consisting of Kevan Byrne (vocals/guitar), Rebecca Campbell (vocals/percussion), Pete Kirkpatrick (bass/vocals), Geoff Walton (guitar/melodica), Iain Thomson (drums), and Al Okada (multi-instrumentalist), released their debut song “Until It's Time” on December 3, 2025.
The song is a rollicking and heartfelt meditation on impermanence, regret, and making amends. Rooted in pastoral harmonies, the song blends the ache of folk storytelling with the grit of vintage rock and soul.
The track was written and produced by Kevan Byrne, with production by Al Okada.
The band lead singer Kevan Byrne said of the song, “It’s a song about regretting not being there for people you love when they need you. And sort of trying to make amends before we die - saying this time I’ll be there for you, and will stay there until it’s time for me to go.”- He continued, “I read about something called a black key tuning that Curtis Mayfield used for a lot of his songs. I put my guitar into that tuning and right away I was struck that I had no idea how CM was getting chords and voicings out of it for songs like ‘Move On Up.’ But it was great for chiming, droning stuff in the key of G. That’s the tuning I used to write ‘Until It’s Time.’ In the end you can play the song in standard tuning with basic cowboy chords. But sometimes you have to get outside your habits to hear a tune differently.”
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He added, “It’s such an unexpected timbre for a track like this. The voicings Al uses are kind of dissonant and melodic at the same time - sweet and sour, which is where we like to live. We wanted to preserve the high of that initial experience when the song first came together. So we set up close to each other to reproduce the experience of a live band as much as we could.” - source : Apple Music
