Boniface Vinyl LP Limited Red Edition 2020

1. Waking Up In Suburbia [Explicit]
2. I Will Not Return As A Tourist
3. Keeping Up [Explicit]
4. Dear Megan
5. Oh My God
6. Fumbling
7. Your List
8. Ghosts [Explicit]
9. Wake Me Back Up
10. It's A Joke
11. Stay Home
12. Making Peace With Suburbia

The eponymous debut album from Canadian solo artist Boniface recorded in Winnipeg and London. Growing up in Winnipeg, Visser wrote the songs for the album at home throughout their late teens and early twenties, after shifts at the local coffee shop and lost nights in the city. This intimacy has been preserved on "Boniface", with the songs largely recorded in the room they were written, with Visser’s brother Joey and longtime collaborator Micheal Dunn also on hand. The trio eventually travelled to London to finish up work with? producer/engineer Neil Comber (Charli XCX, M.I.A., Glass Animals) who helped bring Boniface’s lavish arrangements to full and dazzling life. While the catharsis documented on "Boniface" is undeniably raw, Visser points to a certain touchstone behind the making of their full-length debut: a mission of gently encouraging others to embrace total vulnerability. “There’s so much negativity in the world, and it’s easy to get caught in that cycle of being closed off and negative too—and then projecting that onto other people, and just continuing the cycle,” says Visser. “I’ve found that in my personal life, pushing myself to be more open helps other people to open up as well, so then it becomes a cycle of positivity instead. And I know that it’s really scary to do that, but hopefully opening up in my music will help people to feel safe. I’d love for people to hear these songs and feel inspired, like they can do anything they want with their lives.”