Hey Rosetta!
Hey Rosetta! was a Canadian seven-piece indie rock band from the northeaste… Read Full Bio ↴Hey Rosetta! was a Canadian seven-piece indie rock band from the northeastern province of Newfoundland and led by singer and songwriter Tim Baker. The band announced in October 2017 that they would be taking an indefinite hiatus
In 2005, frontman Baker arrived home from a road trip with a suitcase full of poems and melodies. Hey Rosetta! was formed soon after with the addition of a string section (cellist Romesh Thavanathan and violinist Kinley Dowling) and rhythm section (bassist Josh Ward, drummer Phil Maloney, and guitarist Adam Hogan). Since that time, they blossomed into a powerful group whose explosive live shows earned them a devoted following.
The band's album, Seeds, was produced by Tony Doogan (Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Wintersleep) and revealed a maturing lyrical depth and an atmosphere rooted to the band's passion for epic musical experiences.
It was while recording 2008's breakthrough album Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) that Tim Baker began to fully realize his vocal and lyrical abilities, and the band made a huge creative leap forward. Into Your Lungs garnered a slew of awards and critical accolades, was short-listed for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, and Hey Rosetta! were named one of Billboard's Top 5 new Canadian acts.
During the three solid years of touring after Into Your Lungs was released the concept of Seeds was born. "The title track, "Seeds", came about while out on the highway a few years ago" muses Baker. "In a way it's about what our lives had become, and how we're like seeds that float around into different fields and cities, bringing something and trying to build something for the people that come to see us."
The group developed the sonic landscapes found on Seeds while maintaining an extensive tour schedule that took them to Australia, China, Europe, the US and on numerous tours of Canada (including a tour of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut). The band then holed up in Newfoundland to finish the songs before traveling to Halifax, NS to record with renowned producer Tony Doogan at The Sonic Temple. "Tony was really incredible at getting all the sounds and tones we'd dreamt up. He's an amazing engineer and for all his Scottish bluster and pop-rock dogma, he is very sensitive, patient, and a gifted producer," says Baker (who wrote all of the songs except "Downstairs", "Young Glass", and "Seeds" which were co-writes with guitarist Adam Hogan).
Thematically, Seeds explores everything from depression to procreation. "Young Glass" was written after reading J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey". Baker explains:
"It's sort of directed at the novel's main character, Franny.. it describes a sleepwalking scene that didn't actually occur in the book, but one that I imagined. We spent a lot of time flying and sleeping on planes and in airports and I was always finding myself in half-waking states, feeling, as one does, all alone somewhere between dream and reality. When I'd wake up, I was always surrounded by people, going about their business. I like that; a sort of evidence that even when we think we are completely alone, we are not. So I wrote Franny, a character who is plagued by such thoughts, a song about it. but it's really about everyone".
First single "Welcome" is a song about Baker's close friends who were expecting a baby:
"I wrote a song for the little soon-to-be, who now is a 18 month old girl named Madeleine; healthy and beautiful, just like her parents" explains Baker, "I was just sitting with them talking to the unborn baby in a sort of cynical, joking way. You know, like "stay in there as long as you can kid. Sorry, but it's a mess out here..." and so on. Later, alone, I was thinking about what it means to bring new life into the world, how it's sort of sad but also so hopeful and kind of religious".
Hey Rosetta! decided to break up at the end of 2017.
In 2005, frontman Baker arrived home from a road trip with a suitcase full of poems and melodies. Hey Rosetta! was formed soon after with the addition of a string section (cellist Romesh Thavanathan and violinist Kinley Dowling) and rhythm section (bassist Josh Ward, drummer Phil Maloney, and guitarist Adam Hogan). Since that time, they blossomed into a powerful group whose explosive live shows earned them a devoted following.
The band's album, Seeds, was produced by Tony Doogan (Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Wintersleep) and revealed a maturing lyrical depth and an atmosphere rooted to the band's passion for epic musical experiences.
It was while recording 2008's breakthrough album Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) that Tim Baker began to fully realize his vocal and lyrical abilities, and the band made a huge creative leap forward. Into Your Lungs garnered a slew of awards and critical accolades, was short-listed for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, and Hey Rosetta! were named one of Billboard's Top 5 new Canadian acts.
During the three solid years of touring after Into Your Lungs was released the concept of Seeds was born. "The title track, "Seeds", came about while out on the highway a few years ago" muses Baker. "In a way it's about what our lives had become, and how we're like seeds that float around into different fields and cities, bringing something and trying to build something for the people that come to see us."
The group developed the sonic landscapes found on Seeds while maintaining an extensive tour schedule that took them to Australia, China, Europe, the US and on numerous tours of Canada (including a tour of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut). The band then holed up in Newfoundland to finish the songs before traveling to Halifax, NS to record with renowned producer Tony Doogan at The Sonic Temple. "Tony was really incredible at getting all the sounds and tones we'd dreamt up. He's an amazing engineer and for all his Scottish bluster and pop-rock dogma, he is very sensitive, patient, and a gifted producer," says Baker (who wrote all of the songs except "Downstairs", "Young Glass", and "Seeds" which were co-writes with guitarist Adam Hogan).
Thematically, Seeds explores everything from depression to procreation. "Young Glass" was written after reading J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey". Baker explains:
"It's sort of directed at the novel's main character, Franny.. it describes a sleepwalking scene that didn't actually occur in the book, but one that I imagined. We spent a lot of time flying and sleeping on planes and in airports and I was always finding myself in half-waking states, feeling, as one does, all alone somewhere between dream and reality. When I'd wake up, I was always surrounded by people, going about their business. I like that; a sort of evidence that even when we think we are completely alone, we are not. So I wrote Franny, a character who is plagued by such thoughts, a song about it. but it's really about everyone".
First single "Welcome" is a song about Baker's close friends who were expecting a baby:
"I wrote a song for the little soon-to-be, who now is a 18 month old girl named Madeleine; healthy and beautiful, just like her parents" explains Baker, "I was just sitting with them talking to the unborn baby in a sort of cynical, joking way. You know, like "stay in there as long as you can kid. Sorry, but it's a mess out here..." and so on. Later, alone, I was thinking about what it means to bring new life into the world, how it's sort of sad but also so hopeful and kind of religious".
Hey Rosetta! decided to break up at the end of 2017.
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Hey Rosetta! Lyrics
(postlude) This is nowhere good enough This is nowhere close enough T…
A Thousand Suns Everyone around wants to give you their thanks Everyone arou…
Alcatraz I stood helpless to the threat Of a heavy lid I'll…
another pilot Crows pitch on the lawn screeching a song The inmates wake…
Bandages It will come around But everything is now I know everything …
Black Heart You bright sun You darkest dirt Hardest paradox I ever learn…
Bricks Just feel them multiply Like hungry flies in the sweet summe…
Carry Me Home This hotel is cheap And the pillows stink And there's not …
Cathedral Bells That's when the shadow came And darkened your china face Th…
Death is Quick life is long pulling right from wrong legs like a rock yet y…
Downstairs we begin downstairs and we end up up here. (well see…
Dream Come now through all of it, downtown and tenement through da…
epitaph Bad luck just weaves through the city, But it's keeping awa…
Gold Teeth All this hunger and such uncomfortable thirst son be sufferi…
Handshake the Gangster Are you a wolf, Warm in your pinstripes? Is your pen a…
Harriet Through the hem of evening into the flesh of the night you…
Holy Shit Holy shit What a relief I pulled myself apart, couldn't bre…
hospital beds When I'm dying Promise compliance And carry my body Up ov…
I've Been Asleep for a Long Long Time I've been asleep for a long, long time Blond hair to…
Kid Gloves When you come to, and kinda floating The air is full,…
Kintsukuroi Bring that summer on your shoulders Bring that summer when I…
lions for scottie When you got to the gates, what did they say?…
Neon Beyond Baby in the basket I saw you reaching out your hand You…
New Goodbye Get your things We're leaving When the morning birds are sin…
New Sum Oh see the great citizens With all their white sticks tappin…
New Sum (Nous Sommes) Oh see the great citizens* With all their white sticks tappi…
New Sum (Nous Summes) Oh! see the great citizens With all their white sticks tappi…
New Year Song Lend me your walking stick And I lean on it And I…
Old Crow Black Night Stand Still Look at that cloud hang up off the lookout hills That's wher…
Open Arms Open arms I was starved White desert ground I was dry A hung…
Parson Brown Couldn't shake the cold away A year alone, stock still and…
Promise Ye lowlives laughing too much never close your eyes til the …
Psalm But often it happens you know That the things you don't…
red confederates' red confessions Going to the mall Gonna spraypaint in my angry red scrawl …
Red Heart Were you born in water, A fish so cold? Were you born…
Seeds The road bends long, like mother's arms Reaching for these f…
Seventeen We watch the land And imagine our bodies buried within All t…
Soft Offering The long knife of the sun rising Up the horizon and…
Swing the Cellar Door Wait-Wait-Wait- Before you go I want you to know All that …
The First Snow Things are dying The summer's gone You spend half your night…
The Simplest Thing The rain starts off and it wakes you up You can't…
the year you were born Angus hang up You're not gonna win like this Losing your h…
There's an Arc Don't you swing like a child, In a tree, on a…
tie down the dying So march is in like a lion And she marches out…
Tired Eyes I raised my head from the riverbed and I tasted…
Trish's Song Take your hands Your mother's hands And fold them in your dr…
We Made a Pact You You and I made a pact A deal that as we…
Welcome You'll be a bright light coming out of the dark All…
What Arrows It curves in through the weather It's coming from above And …
Yer Fall In the wet grass out back We spread the sheet And with…
Yer Spring Long we were searching These serpentine streets for the sign…
yes! yes! yes! You cringe, you complain You sing, sing, that old refrain …
Young Glass Long we were searching These serpentine streets for the sign…