KEN mode have premiered their video for their latest track “Learning To Be Too Cold”. The track appears on the band’s current release Loved, available now through New Damage Records.

Jesse Matthewson on “Learning To Be Too Cold”:

The track was the last song written in the session for this record. We salvaged a few riffs from a track that we demoed in May of 2017 with the working title of ‘the moody idiot’, and added three new parts that we wrote just after Skot found out that his father died. The riffs are like scraping bones and metal together, and the lyrics are some of the most demeaning and harsh of the entire album. Skot claims the song does not make him feel good by association, and is consequently his favourite song on the record.

The release of the album, follows five years of touring with Russian Circles, Torche, Deafheaven, Norma Jean, Kylesa, Pelican, Daughters, Revocation, and Today is the Day; and releasing two additional full lengths – 2013’s Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis) produced Entrench and 2015’s Steve Albini (Nirvana, the Jesus Lizard) produced Success (both JUNO nominated) seeing them hit a multitude of major festivals like SXSW, Hellfest Open Air, CMJ Festival, Pitchfork Festival Chicago, Hopscotch Festival, and Roadburn Festival; and doing live sessions for BBC Radio 1 and Daytrotter.

But burnout was inevitable, and in 2016 the band took a step back to regroup: core members, Shane and Jesse, formed their own music business management services company, MKM Management Services, while bassist Scott Hamilton released records with his other bands Adolyne and Greylight District. In 2017 the band began writing with a newfound focus and desire, in the most collaborative effort they have ever put together.

KEN mode is comprised of Jesse Matthewson (Guitar, Piano, Vocals), Shane Matthewson (Drums) and bassist Skot Hamilton

*Upcoming Canadian Tour Dates w/Birds In Row
10.26.18 – Toronto, ON @ Bovine Sex Club
10.27.18 – Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus
10.28.18 – Quebec City, QC @ La Source De La Martiniere
10.29.18 – Ottawa, ON @ House of Targ