Science is Fiction doesn’t just make music to fill the silence—they architect entire universes where hope and despair collide like waves in a boundless ocean. Hailing from Calgary, the indie rock quartet now unveils “Sea of Love II,” a hypnotic journey that pulses like a mantra, pulling listeners into the heart of an emotional storm. It serves as the beating core of their long-awaited debut album, No Future, arriving this fall.
Directed by longtime collaborator Aaron Dunn, the accompanying music video forsakes a linear narrative. Instead, it pulls the viewer into a subterranean labyrinth where frontman Pavan Singh searches for an exit that remains perpetually out of reach. Each door circles back to the beginning; every turn leads him deeper into the maze. And when he finally seems to break free into the vast Alberta landscapes, his freedom reveals itself as another prison—grander, more beautiful, yet just as suffocating—before dissolving into a psychedelic feedback loop that mirrors the song’s cathartic climax.
“Sea of Love II” is not merely heard—it is experienced like a trance. Its haunting refrain—“The sea will wince with pain and crash / The wind will cry a song of sorrow…”—echoes like an incantation, while expansive instrumental passages swell with the weight of facing the same relentless storm again and again.
The single is merely the first glimpse into No Future, the most ambitious work to emerge from the enduring collaboration between Singh and Kirk Stensrud. What began in the late ‘90s as a home recording project has evolved into a formidable full-band force with Blair Lipkind (bass) and Matt Anderson (drums). Their 2019 EP, Don’t Everybody Thank Me At Once, ignited Canadian college radio, but this new record pushes into deeper territory, exploring how we live when everything seems to be unraveling—whether that means surrendering, fighting harder, or simply laughing into the void.
“There’s a strange sense of relief, even joy, when you finally accept that there’s no future,” Singh reflects. “It forces you to live entirely in the present—a feeling that is terrifying, ridiculous, but ultimately liberating.”
Working with producer Chris Dadge (Chad VanGaalen, Alvvays) at Child Stone Studios, the band dramatically expanded their sonic palette: sharp guitar riffs slice through bright pop hooks, all set against sprawling atmospheres that fracture and collapse like shards of glass.
Science is Fiction is more than a name—it’s a philosophy. Their music is a warped mirror to modern life, reflecting its anxiety, its humor, and its desperate need for catharsis. And this fall, when No Future arrives, it won’t be just another album. It will be an invitation to lose yourself in the collapse… and find a reason to dance within it.
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