“However, the bright side of that and of death is that if you keep this mortality on your shoulder every day, you live your life in the most authentic way you could. But then eventually, one of you has to die, so inevitably it always ends in goodbyes,” Reyez told us last December at The Annex in Toronto. The dark side of love being the fact that the day you meet the love of your life is the day that you meet the person who is going to hurt you the most - because statistically speaking, they’re either going to cheat, or you guys are one of the few that actually fall in love and make it until you’re old and gray. “I had the idea of the dark side of love, and the bright side of death.
The 14-track record, which sees a wedding gown-clad Reyez perched on a coffin on the album art, takes listeners on a sonic journey of bittersweet romance, tackling themes from betrayal and jealousy, to loneliness and desire. As a follow-up to her critically acclaimed EPs, Kiddo (2017) and the Grammy-nominated Being Human in Public (2018), the singer’s new album Before Love Came to Kill Us showcases her innate ability to be brutally honest in her music.
