Reuben and the Dark with The Bullhorn Singers

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Reuben and the Dark frontman Reuben Bullock is known for writing songs that search for light in impossible places. Across five albums, the Calgary songwriter has turned grief, endurance, and hope into expansive, communal anthems. Yet his new album, If You Know Me You Know My Brother, strips away much of the distance that once separated the storyteller from the story itself, and arrives after one of the most significant chapters of Bullock’s life. Written across more than a decade, and completed following the death of his older brother earlier this year, these 10 songs reckon with childhood trauma, addiction, family, forgiveness, and the strange ways love continues long after loss. If earlier Reuben and the Dark records often looked outward–toward nature, spirituality, and a search for belonging–this one begins at home. “I stopped giving a f%^&,” Bullock says simply. “This one is for me.”

If You Know Me You Know My Brother doesn’t offer neat resolutions to grief. Instead, it finds grace in continuing forward. It is a record about broken hearts that keep beating, impossible dreams worth chasing, and the quiet realization that love rarely disappears–it simply changes shape.