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Windows in the Sky

Windows in the Sky
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 9, 2018 (2018-11-09)
Recorded2018
StudioUpper Room
Length62:00
Label
Alex Henry Foster chronology
Windows in the Sky
(2018)
Kimiyo
(2024)

Windows in the Sky is the debut solo studio album by Your Favorite Enemies vocalist Alex Henry Foster.[1] It is an 8-track poetry essay about finding peace, faith and hope through the context of grief, depression, and distress.[2]

It was released in Canada on November 9, 2018, through Hopeful Tragedy Records and Sony Music, The Orchard. The album charted at #1 in the Canadian iTunes charts in the first week of its release, ahead of Muse and Imagine Dragons.[3][4] It reached #6 on the Billboard charts[5] in Canada on the second week of its release. In 2019, it was nominated for "Anglophone Album of the Year" by ADISQ.[6]

In February and March 2020, Foster and his band went on tour across Europe and the UK alongside ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead in support of Foster's first solo album.

Windows in the Sky was released in Japan on March 20, 2020. The release included an additional live record with songs performed at Foster's first concert as a solo artist at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal on July 5, 2019.

On May 1, 2020, the album was released worldwide through a broadcast in partnership with Prog (magazine). It consisted of a 60-minute concert by Alex Henry Foster and his band The Long Shadows, live from their studio near Montréal, Canada, established in a former Catholic church.[7]

The international release landed a front page appearance on Rolling Stone magazine in France.[8]

  1. ^ Breznikar, Klemen (January 17, 2020). "'Summertime Departures / Sometimes I Dream' by Alex Henry Foster". It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  2. ^ Magazine, Aesthetic (April 28, 2020). "Exclusive Premiere: Stream Alex Henry Foster's New Album "Windows in the Sky"".
  3. ^ "Alex Henry Foster Breaks Big With Solo Debut". FYIMusicNews. November 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Bélanger, Cédric. "Alex Henry Foster: un succès inattendu". Journal de Montréal.
  5. ^ "Alex Henry Foster". Billboard.
  6. ^ "PalmarèsADISQ - Alex Henry Foster - Album: Windows in the Sky". PalmarèsADISQ.
  7. ^ April 2020, Jerry Ewing24 (24 April 2020). "Alex Henry Foster joins Prog for live session in May". Prog Magazine.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Rédaction, La (May 1, 2020). "Le numéro 2 de Rolling Stone Hebdo est en ligne !".

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