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Facing What's to Come

The Honest Heart Collective Talks New Single, Upcoming Album

Story by Jamie Varga, Photo by Scott McKay Find HHC on Facebook or visit their website at honestheart.co. #RIGHTdeadly

When it comes to picking a clever descriptive for a band like The Honest Heart Collective, it’s hard to compete with the name itself. Honest and heartfelt is about the best way to describe the members of the band as well as the music they create.

Coming down from what we hope is the crest of the pandemic wave that crashed down upon us all, the band put out a new single on August 5 called “11/17,” the latest piece of the new album coming in the fall titled More Harm. Inspired by an accident the band got into while heading out on tour, “11/17” and the messages within it relate in more ways than one to the long and hard road HHC travelled to get where they are now—facing what is to come with fresh eyes.

Seeing everything you use to create your passion shattered and tossed over a snow-covered ditch would be enough to kill the creative spirit for a lot of people. But then, just getting up from that,

The Honest Heart Collective got knocked off the horse again when the entertainment world all but shut down completely. As they expected this album to be released before the brakes were put on, two other songs, “Fine” and “Linework” were released as potential teasers a year ago. So More Harm is almost an older album by now, but is still representative of the band moving on to new chapters.

Unlike some other acts out there, the band didn’t feel particularly inspired to create any new music during the shutdown because it just didn’t feel like the right environment to build proper Honest Heart songs. But new music is coming. “All this stuff we have in the bank is pre-COVID,” says Ryan MacDonald when talking about even more new music yet to come after

More Harm’s release. “We recorded ‘11/17’ in June of 2019 and ‘Fine’ and ‘Linework’ were done in 2018. We’ve been working at it since we put out

Grief Rights. We’re ready though. We’re back at it and I’m happy. My goal is that [the new music] comes out sooner than another three years from now. We’ve got some work to put in over the winter and then we can get at it.”

As doors start to open up and the live music world slowly starts to fire up, The Honest Heart Collective already has some shows under their belt, playing in Kenora recently and joining Noah Derksen, Raine Hamilton, and Jean-Paul De Roover in Fort Frances for Retour de Fort. But, in addition to More Harm coming out on October 8, it sounds like further exciting news may be on the way. So keep your eyes and ears close to the ground for what’s in store for The Honest Heart Collective.

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