Evening Hymns - Asleep in the Pews

Canada's Evening Hymns caught the attention of many with their 2009 debut album, Spirit Guides, a folk album that exudes a woeful kind of peacefulness. They are now offering their first single "Asleep in the Pews" from their upcoming album Spectral Dust as a free download on their facebook page. Following their recording of the album on tumblr was a wonderful grouping of pictures from a one room cabin in the woods in a middle of a snowy Canadian winter and it's easy to envision this first song coming from such a place. The album features members of The Wooden Sky, Ohbijou, City and Colour, and more. It will be released in spring 2012 in Canada on Shuffling Feet Records.

Evening Hymns - Asleep in the Pews

Cabin where Spectral Dust was recorded

Evening Hymns - Just Like Christmas

Here's another indie christmas song for you. Although it seems that to make such songs, bands just use some old melodies they've had kicking around, add some jingle bells, maybe use the word Christmas and voila an indie christmas song is born. While there isn't much to this one, you still get to hear their beautiful voices and a soothing melody. I love Evening Hymn's other song "Broken Rifle" which is sadly no longer available for free download. Their last album was released in 2009 so hopefully they have something in store for us in 2011.

Just Like Christmas (Low cover)

*Update: After posting this, and a brief twitter convo with Draw Us Lines, Evening Hymns got in touch with us both to let us know that they are working on a new album. And they also sent over a video of a new song "Cabin in the Burn". And that folks, it why twitter is so cool, despite what your friends may think.