PRESS:

NOW Magazine
"Ones To Watch: Heavy & Loud"
nowtoronto.com/music/ones-to-watch-heavy-loud/

Chart Attack:
Century of the Selfie Video Single feature
www.chartattack.com/news/tracks-new…kah-badu-kanye/


Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLvXgUqg2mHbY29XrTwP8w
credits: Birdwise
released December 13, 2015


===HUMANITIES DEBUT EP===
Out March 25/2016 via 100 EYES

CONTACT:
info@100eyes.ca
humanities.bandcamp.com
100eyes.ca


credits:
Birdwise - Guitars & Vocals
Tashi - Guitars
Phil - Drums
Handreaux - Bass

Artwork & Photography: Alejandro Cairncross
Press Photo: Hannah Enkel

Century Of The Selfie (Single)

Contact:
humanitiestheband@gmail.com


Toronto 4-piece post-hardcore/noise rock band HUMANITIES has announced a 8-song debut EP, due out winter 2016.

Watch the video for "Century of the Selfie" here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVe9XhL0vkQ


Formed in early 2015, HUMANITIES is a four-piece post-hardcore/noise rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humanities weaves its guitar-driven sound from the interzone between heaviness and melody, dissonance, dirge, and harmony. Combining musical ferocity and thoughtful lyrics — spoken sung, and screamed — Humanities’ sound is at once angry, poetic and visionary. Drawing imagery and ideas from the contemporary malaise and violence of our times, Humanities’ muse is the world itself in crisis. Humanities’ self-titled EP, set to be released in winter 2016, is the first document of the band’s sound.

credits:

Birdwise - Guitars & Vocals
Tashi - Guitars
Phil - Drums
Handreaux - Bass

Engineering & Mixing: Matt Connell at Northwood Studios
Mastering: Dave Williams at Rock Among Us

Artwork & Photography: Alejandro Cairncross
Press Photo: Hannah Enkel

06 Your Dreams Are My Dreams

05 Ink (hmnts Mix)

04 Belly Full Of Fear

03 This Body, This Fire (hmnts Mix)

02 Come Outside

01 Century Of The Selfie

Formed in early 2015, Humanities are a four-piece band that combine musical ferocity with thoughtful lyrics resulting in angry, poetic dirges. Created out of a desire to collectively make loud music, Humanities set out to write and record a few short months after their inception, resulting in a summer weekend spent with Matt Connell at Northwood Studios. The songs captured weave dissonant melodies with heavy hitting riffs, and lyrics musing on the world itself in crisis.

Exploring some of the strange terrain in this world of techno-alienation, their debut EP focuses on our all too familiar, yet strange relationships with things like social media and communicative labour, and our dependence on various technologies and institutions in sharing our experiences with others in the world. The imagery and themes are related to our collective efforts — and failures — at communication and community.

It opens with the driving post-hardcore sound of “Century of the Selfie,” a bitter meditation on the false promises of social media and connectivity, and then moves through the claustrophobia of “Come Outside” formed from varying strands of punk and hardcore. The dystopic visions of work and leisure in “Belly Full of Fear” combine with noisy, dense guitars that shine with a dissonant melody. The EP concludes with the somewhat more optimistic, yet crushing dirge rock of “Your Dreams are My Dreams,” a song that finds a certain communicative and creative possibility in that apparently most solitary, and unproductive, activity: dreaming. Through dreams we find a shared energy that runs deeply into the individual, seeping into it and pushing out beyond it, into others and to the world.