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Toronto coldwave duo TRAITRS have unveiled details of their fourth studio album, Possessor, arriving March 2026. A record steeped in existential unease, it confronts the question of what endures after we’re gone, tracing the haunting sensation of watching everything fade and wondering whether it ever mattered.
Their new single, I Was Ill, You Were Wrong, offers a glimpse into the album’s heart, an aching melancholy born from a time when both Sean Patrick Nolan (synths, sequencing) and Shawn Tucker (guitar, vocals) were navigating personal transformations and depression.
Written in the margins of relentless touring and captured at Toronto’s Wychwood Studios with producer Josh Korody (The Beaches, The Dirty Nil, Japandroids, F*cked Up), Possessor finds TRAITRS at their most uncompromising. The final touch came from mastering engineer Matt Colton, whose recent credits include The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World.
Vocalist and guitarist Shawn Tucker comments on the new single: "I felt that song connected me to everything and everyone, it's the one thing we all share and have in common. It's also a wake up call to live the life you want to live, we only have one chance at this so go dance in the rain."
On the album, TRAITRS say: "There's a lot of anger, beauty and sadness on the album. I want to feel that someone is holding you when you're cold, sad and alone in the dark. The soundtrack to a gloomy filled sorrowed love affair. It's unconditional, unflinching, and unapologetic."
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