Westminster Park wrapped romanticism in sonorous retro cinema with their country folk serenade, A Pair on a Pier

Westminster Park unravelled the ache and splendour of enduring love with their country folk serenade, A Pair on a Pier. Recorded in their home studio and brushed with the warm gloss of Brandon General and Ben Srokosz’s mastering, the waltz drifts in like a slow tide, heavy with sentiment and light on pretension. It is retro arthouse cinema in sound, a sonic photograph of a week in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where nothing existed but the salt air and the slow burn of reignited affection. With a Parisian sense of timeless style sewn into the sepia-tinted sonics, A Pair on a Pier becomes the aural epitome of romanticism; tender in all the right places, scintillatingly sonorous in all the rest. The harmonies hum with the kind of synergy that sidesteps cliché. They don’t rely on overplayed tropes or declarations; they breathe. They murmur truth and tangle around the lyrics like the arms of someone you never want to let go of again. If you’ve never been to Montmartre, hand in hand with the one who became more your world than the earth beneath your feet, this track will take you there, while letting you inhale the Nova Scotian breeze and stripping […]

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