Premiere: roko's basilisk - the past that's to come

Written By Jeff MacCallum

roko's basilisk is a folk-forward band that captures the anxiety of everyday life in lovely, cathartic songs. The band initially began as the solo project multihyphenate Seamus RL. After cutting his teeth in Victoria's flourishing underground scene, a difficult year prompted rest and the need for creative recovery. RL fled to the remote oceanside town of qathet ("Powell River, BC") to record his first tape, reintro: hello cruel world! and a film by the same name. The tape came together in an apartment that was formerly the town's psychiatric ward and sat adjacent to an abandoned paper mill.

Now, no longer a solo endeavour, roko's basilisk is now taking shape into an active band residing in Vancouver and today we are excited to premiere their forthcoming EP, the past that's to come, out January 23rd. This EP will mark the end of the works created while RL was living in qathet and it boasts contemplative folk with shoegazey sonics that I’d best describe as “fuzzy-folk”. Enjoy the whole EP right now one day before its official release. If you like what you hear, please hit the pre-order button in the player below to support this burgeoning artist.

Jeff MacCallum

Jeff MacCallum is our founder. He created Cups N Cakes simply because he had a love of local music. Soon the platform grew beyond the confines of his scene in Edmonton to include all of Canada.

"I did it all very DIY. Everything you see was me learning on the fly. I'm a carpenter not a musician, or a journalist, or a publicist... I'm a carpenter and a weird crazy music fan that thought he could do something fun that might benefit something I care about"

Over the years, MacCallum's commitment to elevating Canadian music earned him a spot as a Polaris Prize Juror, a WCMA Juror, a consultant for music festival curation, and a dear friend to independent music in Canada.

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