If I Should Go Before You by City And Colour

If I Should Go Before You, the fifth City and Colour album, came out on Dine Alone Records on October 9, 2015, and like the two before it, it reached number one on the Canadian albums chart. City and Colour is Dallas Green's own project, the name a quiet pun on his own (Dallas for the city, Green for the colour), which started out playing small, intimate rooms between tours with his post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.

Green produced this one himself, and it sounds a lot bigger than that origin story: the songs open up into slow-burning, full-band grooves with room for the guitars to wander, and his high, aching voice rides over the top. "Wasted Love" is the keeper, a smoldering, patient ballad that takes its time getting where it's going and makes the wait worth it.

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