By Will McGuirk

It could be the future is too unknown, or that the present so anchored that looking back can be the focus of one’s mind. In some ways that backward look is the root of a political agenda, in others just Peter Pan fantasy, or as in summersets’ new song, ‘Somewhere Gone’ it’s that place where one can enjoy the sadness of loss, the celebration of somewhere gone but not as gone as long as the mind can recall. This project by summersets, this string of songs recently released, is fascinating to me; this trip down memory lane with affection but not desire. summersets are Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka, bandmates but also childhood friends so maybe there’s something in those conversations that becomes these songs. Anyway this somewhere gone was never my somewhere so happy to walk with summersets by 70s homes, hockey rinks and garage distilleries and watch and learn where my somewhere may have come from too.

Mattson in the PR says he wanted the song “to feel like Sault Ste. Marie. So few songs are written about or reflect the part of the country where we’re both from, and with ‘Somewhere Gone’ I wanted to hopefully provide a snapshot of the place but also what it’s like to look back at your hometown after you have grown up and left, seeing it and yourself from a new point of view.”