“When You Hold Your Breath”, is the latest single from Canadian multi-artist Cameron Reed’s project Father Of The Year. Previously known as Babe Rainbow, a Warp Records-signed electronic project. Reed has switched lanes with Father Of The Year into altogether more personal territory. The singer-songwriter tradition has always made room for men who fall short. It hasn’t often had to accommodate a generation of men who have the language to understand themselves completely and nothing to show for it. “When You Hold Your Breath” was conceived by producer and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Vincent.

The song turns on a private language two people build in the silence between words. ‘When you hold your breath, I hear every word unspoken / When you’re lost in thought, I’ll never know where you go.’ He can feel everything she isn’t saying. He will never fully reach her. In a crisis just one look will hold us together / When I see you exhale then I know you found your way home.’

While “The FIxer” highlighted a man who couldn’t stop talking, he learned that the things left unsaid are the ones still in our command. It is not a comfortable admission for someone like him. “I’m not a humble man” he concedes, before the song opens into something larger, love not as a problem to be solved but as a defiance of everything that would diminish it. ‘In defiance, we’ll sing as Death comes to take us / ‘Cause our love assures we’ll be heard through the Great Unknown.’

Order “When You Hold Your Breath” by Father Of The Year HERE