knitting are back with ‘Souvenir’ + a new single that hits right in the quarter-life crisis

knitting just dropped Here Comes, the second single off their forthcoming album ‘Souvenir’. It hits like a Sunday morning existential crisis — in the best way possible. The Montreal indie slackers are gearing up to release their sophomore record on June 26, 2026 via Vancouver’s Mint Records, and if these singles are any indication, it’s going to be a good summer for people who feel too much.

The Song

Here Comes is one of those tracks that doesn’t quite know where it’s going — and that’s entirely the point. Frontperson Mischa Dempsey lays it all out in the opening lines: the hollow promises we make to ourselves, the morning routines that never stick, the exhausting performance of having your life together. “Lyrically, the song plays around with the push and pull between trying to keep your head above water, and wanting to give up on that and just have fun,” says Dempsey. It’s a riff on that very specific early-20s feeling where you can see the clock ticking on your reckless phase but you’re not quite ready to let it go.

The track came together the way the best ones do — instinctively. Dempsey showed up to record vocals with only the chorus finished, and the rest got figured out on the spot with guitarist/engineer Sarah Harris. No overthinking, no outside producers, just the band trusting their gut.

The Video

Filmmaker Marlaena Moore took the reins on the visual side, going full DIY-MTV-dream-sequence with it. Think green screen energy, stop motion, close-up faces, and the kind of colorful warmth that feels like a half-remembered dream from the ’90s. “I wanted to imagine knitting as a kind of arty alternative rock band with a hot new single ready for MTV,” Moore explains. Shot with friends over a weekend and edited with pure vibes, the video matches the song’s breezy-but-bittersweet spirit perfectly.

The Album: ‘Souvenir’

‘Souvenir’ — French for “to remember” — is exactly what the title implies: a record about memory, identity, and the messy emotional artifacts we carry around with us. It’s a step forward from their debut ‘Some Kind of Heaven,’ expanding into synths and more textured production while keeping the introspective core that made that record so compelling. Exclaim! noted the band is “introducing more experimentation with texture, synths, and structure while keeping that introspective core intact,” and The Line of Best Fit called it a deeper, more diverse evolution of their slacker rock sound.

The whole album was engineered in-house by Harris, recorded between sessions in Montreal and St. John’s, NL — and mixed by friend and collaborator Rhys Climenhage. It sounds like a band that’s grown up a little, gotten more comfortable in their own skin, and is no longer interested in making a big splash — just in making something real.

Tracklist: ‘Souvenir’

1. I Want To Remember Everything
2. Sunrise
3. Here Comes
4. Photocopy
5. I Wasn’t Fully Cooked
6. Shuffle
7. Gift Horse
8. Sequel
9. Exit Desire

Previously: I Want To Remember Everything

The lead single was a love letter to the weird kid inside all of us — the one who watched obscure fan videos on Limewire and felt deeply seen by Harriet the Spy. It’s chiming, driving, and emotionally precise. The campy video, set against Montreal’s brutalist winter landscape, has the band chasing down a lost treasure. It’s playful and wistful all at once, with one foot in childhood and one in the reality of being an adult who still hasn’t quite figured it out.

‘Souvenir’ is out June 26, 2026 on Mint Records. Pre-save it now and mark your calendar — your feelings will thank you.