Steve Haley’s Heat Vision is a group effort and a pure example of the confluence of camaraderie and musicianship. Part musical ode to the confabulations of apocalyptic fantasy, to the portent of dreams and to wild imagination, it reads like a bittersweet map of friendship, loss and the end of the world. Assembled from the parts of a small and vibrant music scene, in many senses the album is also an ode to place and space. It becomes easy to picture how the marshlands and mudflats of Sackville N.B., whose unbroken and foggy symmetries impart both a surreal sense of isolation and togetherness and of centrality and terminus could have helped to inspire the morphing and hypnagogic lyrics that flow through Heat Vision like a waking dream. Continue reading New Music: Steve Haley Channels Neil Young In ‘Heat Vision’ →