First song from their next album "Til The Love Runs Out" is here for your listening!
At the heart of great songwriting is great storytelling. For The North Sound, songs are a declaration of joy, a hallmark of yearning, and a tender tale of honesty. Yet amidst the rawness, trials and tribulations, there are notes of hope and happiness. This is the duo at their best: Sharing stories in the way they know how.
Forged deep in Treaty 7 Territory, where the prairies rush towards the foothills, The North Sound is a partnership between lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Forrest Eaglespeaker and vocalist and composer Nevada Eaglespeaker. A fusion of authentic voices, crisp harmonies and rollicking/burgeoning indie folk-roots rock, the duo — a married couple — weave and wend through themes of family and connection, recovery and addiction. As partners who play and write together, the themes of family, love and sacrifice are inescapable — in their shared sojourn, Forrest and Nevada have forged the core of a rock solid collaboration. And at the heart and soul of the group is an incredible story of two people who stuck it out and found a collective voice to breathe life into tribulations and traditions.
“This is how I pay homage to my heritage as a Blackfoot person, an Indigenous person,” says Forrest. “I express this through song and story, and use the tools that we’ve been given to survive genocide.”
The topics of their stories aren’t necessarily light — they might hit you in the gut. But they also aim to make you sing along as well. While Forrest's voice guides the listeners through intergenerational trauma, the duo lets their audiences relate in their own way. It’s when The North Sound play live that the intimacy and honesty shines through.
“When we are onstage, we aren’t trying to hide behind anything, and we don’t hold anything back,” said Forrest. “It means I might be too honest, but that’s okay. It’s the space that we create where we let ourselves go into the moment.”
“Sometimes it’s 50-50 when it comes to singing and sharing stories,” adds Nevada. “It’s what draws the audience.”
Over the past ten years, after releasing several albums and numerous singles, The North Sound have crafted a signature sound that has found both accolades and acclaim. Since beginning in 2014, the duo has seen four of their singles reach number one on the Indigenous Music Countdown as well as Saskatchewan’s MBC Radio, while also winning SaskMusic‘s Indigenous Artist of the Year award two years running (2020, 2021).