after the sun hit the roof

Blending art folk, dusk rock, and “forest floor pop,” 'after the sun hits the roof' moves between hazy guitars, dreamy piano passages, vintage pop melodies, and an undercurrent of eerie atmospherics.

There's something unsettling about watching the place you call home change around you. The streets are familiar, the seasons still turn, but something feels different. That feeling has a name: solastalgia. It's this strange sense of homesickness that Halifax-based songwriter Sophie Noel explores on their new album, after the sun hit the roof.

Arriving October 23 via From Nowhere Records, the eight-track album is a deeply personal meditation on ecological grief, impermanence, and the strange contradictions of everyday life in a world that seems to be coming undone.

At the album's emotional centre sits “Path of Totality,” a slow-burning, quietly ominous track that feels like a nocturnal wander. Steady percussion and a gradually building atmosphere accompany everyday routines like making coffee and washing dishes, interrupted by radio chatter about chemicals, plastics, and corporate speak. “All the flowers bloomed, for a while, in the darkness,” Noel sings.

Recorded to tape at Risque Disque Studios in Cedar, British Columbia, the album took shape alongside Shilo Preshyon, with the pair building arrangements as they went using old demo recordings and newly tracked material.

Occasionally, fragments of previous recordings left on the tape reels found their way into the music. The house where much of the album was written had its own strange energy, with Noel describing it as “haunted as fuck.” Baby mobiles would spin on their own, cupboards would mysteriously open, and pillows would shift as though someone had just been sitting on them.

For all its ecological anxiety and reflections on loss, after the sun hit the roof leaves plenty of room for humour, tenderness, and the occasional moment of clarity. As Noel puts it, they hope listeners come away feeling a little “less alone and doomy.”