Devon Church is a singer-songwriter hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba
and based in New York City. He was, for many years, a multiinstrumentalist, co-writer and producer of the dreampop duo Exitmusic,
whose album, Passage (Secretly Canadian), Pitchfork described as
"insurgent, cinematic, and sometimes brilliant." In 2018, the same year
that Exitmusic released it's swan song, The Recognitions (felte), Church
released his solo debut, We Are Inextricable (felte), which employed the
textural electronic elements he had harnessed during the Exitmusic
years in the service of a songwriting style rooted in the folk rock
tradition, with deep nods to Cohen and Dylan. The results, according to
Allmusic, were both "affecting and musically inventive." Having gigged
throughout the US in 2019 (opening for the likes of Orville Peck, Adam
Green, Kirin J Callinan and Black Marble) Church set to work recording
his latest offering, Strange Strangers, while seeking refuge from the
global pandemic in a barn in rural Pennsylvania.
