Windows in the Sky | ||||
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Released | November 9, 2018 | |||
Recorded | 2018 | |||
Studio | Upper Room | |||
Length | 62:00 | |||
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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]
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