Everyone in Montreal seems to be perfectly in love. It’s a city of pairs, strolling happily hand-in-hand, cooing bilingually. It’s a city of endless possibility, but even then it seems all the best ones are already taken.

• 7th Wheel (‘Mary Christa O’Keefe’ –> ‘Balladeer’ –> ‘An Entanglement of Weeds’ –> ‘Featherstone’ –> ‘Morningside’)

It seems that somehow, without fail, I make my way to Montreal each November. The annual trip, repeated so often, starts to feel like deja vu, and I think of the old things that lay forgotten. Of the first songs I ever recorded. Of the lost songs left behind in rehearsals. I fret there’s not enough time to remember them all, but little bits and melodies sometimes pop into focus.

• Au coin du Berri at Jarry (‘The Great Dictator’ –> ‘High School Dance Theme’ –> ‘I Don’t Want You To Leave’)