Courier News is a collaboration between two Award-winning Canadian artists. Their successful backgrounds have converged for a debut EP, Fixtures, that shows their chops in the realm of down-tempo electronica. Fixtures recalls developing post-rock and electronic fusions with impressive precision.

The Deep Dark Woods is Ryan Boldt (guitar), Burke Barlow (guitar), Chris Mason (bass), and Lucas Goetz (drums), with all four sharing songwriting and vocal duties. Winter Hours is their sophomore release on the Black Hen Music label and w as recorded and produced in Vancouver at The Factory by Steve Dawson. The album most certainly surpasses the excellent Hang Me, Oh Hang Me, which happened to win the award for Best Roots Album at the Western Canadian Music Awards. When I wrote about The Deep Dark Woods' first album I described it [...]