Montreal’s Addy Weitzman, known for his work in Footprintz, The Beat Escape, and Dawn to Dawn, takes a fearless dive into romantic, cinematic terrain with Light Months Will Fly Over Us, his first solo album. Out now via Seth Troxler’s Slacker 85, the record signals a new emotional dimension for both artist and label. Today, we’re premiering the official video for Gabrielle, the album’s haunting closing track and a surreal meditation on performance, memory, and the unconscious.
The album opens in dusky fashion with End of the Line, a piano-and-brass-drenched introduction to Addy’s new world: less club night, more faded theatre. Across its eight tracks, he moves fluidly between orchestral dream-pop in Beyond the Speed of Life, 80s-infused art rock in Entertainment Is All I Wanted, and glacial synthscapes in Stranger to Your Kind. With arrangements by Adam Wilcox and mixing from Pierre Guerineau (Marie Davidson), this is a widescreen, deeply introspective body of work.
Centrepiece and final track, Gabrielle, now comes with a visual equally rich in dream logic. Directed by Christopher Honeywell, the video is a grainy, hypnotic piece shot on Super 16mm film and VHS, drawing from French New Wave, Italian supernatural horror, and mid-century noir. “The Gabrielle video is a meditation on performance — a staged portrait of an artist at work blended with a surreal depiction and exploration of the unconscious mind,” Honeywell explains. “Addy and I collaborated intuitively to reflect the themes of the song and our shared artistic influences.”
Weitzman adds: “The video is an exploration of the unconscious, the place of dreams and symbols. When I wrote the song, Gabrielle was a woman whom I hadn’t met; she was sitting at a table next to me at a restaurant, I overheard her name. While making the video, it occurred to the director, Chris and me that the femme fatale felt like a representation of the main character’s anima or inner woman, and this interpretation changed the way that I understood the song." He continues: "While recording the song in the studio with the composer and producer Adam Wilcox, movies and film music were a massive influence, so when making the video there were certain moods and specific films in mind that Chris and I wanted to reference.”
That cinematic energy runs through the album. First single Running & Returning, a co-write with Patrick Boivin, sits at the record’s emotional core, pairing wistful sax and angular guitars with Weitzman’s most expressive vocal to date. Tracks like Ice Cream Candle and No Man’s Land balance absurdity and grace, while a blistering guitar solo near the end hints at the artist’s past lives on the dancefloor. With Light Months Will Fly Over Us, Addy has crafted a debut that feels suspended in time, drifting somewhere between dreams, reels of film, and fading conversations.