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This project has been made possible in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce à FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada, et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

KT Laine embodies contrasts. Balancing grace and grit accentuated through vintage recording equipment, her music exists in a middle space that leaves you slightly too unnerved to fully sink in your seat. But that’s what gives her music its vitality. The recent Montreal transplant’s catchy mid-tempo rock songs take their time, letting all the feels slowly seep in. That aloofness plays out in the video for “Again,” the second single from her debut LP, Knock Knee.

With a voice at once haunting and warm, Laine’s songs have plenty of space to breathe, which sounds exactly like what the characters in “Again,” a couple at odds, need. It’s in those quiet, still moments that uncomfortable truths arise, truths like, “Maybe I don’t love the person sleeping next to me anymore.” Laine captures that tableaux lyrically and musically on “Again.” The video shows partygoers barging their way into her home only to listlessly shuffle through the motions of dancing and arguing. The effect is more hypnotizing than jarring, just like the song.