Ottawa, Canada's progressive rock sextet THE KINDRED (formerly known as TODAY I CAUGHT THE PLAGUE) will release their debut Sumerian Records full-length entitled, Life In Lucidity, on February 25th. They will also embark on a North American tour alongside BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME in February/March. The album track 'Heritage' can now be streamed below.

Vocalist David Journeaux elaborates on the meaning of the song's lyrics: "The song 'Heritage' refers to the idea of building upon the knowledge of predecessors, by way of fully understanding how they came to acquire such knowledge and then applying our own thoughts and ideas to them. It seeks to explain the power of using thousands of years of well thought out concepts and theories, built upon generation after generation, as a base for further thought exploration, rather than building ideas in already existing fields either completely from scratch or with limited subject knowledge. The idea is that whereas the latter approach may produce some interesting results, it would seem that the former offers more possibility of significantly advancing our levels of understanding, as issues that may arise, either known or unknown to us in our own secluded thought development of a particular subject may very well have been addressed and solved in the collective history of that subject’s study. Therefore, having an understanding of a subject’s full course of development keeps us from spending our time reaching already established conclusions, and allows us to focus on unique thoughts to hopefully advance the field, or create new ones."

Life In Lucidity tracklisting:

‘Wolvish’

‘Heritage’

‘Everbound’

‘An Evolution Of Thought’

‘Decades’

‘Millennia’

‘A Grand Debate’

‘Seekers & Servants’

‘Dreambender’

‘Like A Long Life’

‘Cimmerian Dusk’ (bonus track)

‘Heritage’:

David Journeaux previously stated: “The album title, Life In Lucidity, relates to the concept of life being nothing more than a very lucid dream, wherein if you were to wake from it you may either wake in to another dream or in to true reality. It also toys with the notion that if you can realize you are dreaming within this world you can gain complete control over everything that happens within it; complete responsibility for the path your life takes. We are incredibly excited to get this album out to the public and to take the songs to stages across the globe. Being able to start the process with Between The Buried And Me is a bit of a dream-manifestation in itself, as a number of us have been big fans of the band for many years, and have always named them an act with whom we would love to tour one day."

Tour dates with Between The Buried And Me, INTRONAUT, and DEAFHAVEN:

February

20 - West Springfield, VA - Empire
21 - Huntington, NY - Paramount Theater
22 - Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall
23 - Boston, MA - Royale Nightclub
24 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
26 - Montreal, QC - Corona Theater
27 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial De Quebec
28 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre

March

1 - London, ON - London Music Hall
2 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon
4 - Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection
5 - Palatine, IL - Durty Nellie's
6 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
7 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre
8 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
10 - Reno, NV - The Knitting Factory
11 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Metro
12 - Pomona, CA - Glasshouse
14 - Lubbock, TX - Jake's Sports Café
15 - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
16 - Grand Prairie, TX - South By So What?! Festival
18 - Sauget, IL - Pop's
20 - Ybor City, FL - The Ritz Ybor
21 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
22 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt
23 - Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall

The Kindred recently uploaded a new Volition Tour webisode, which is streaming below:

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