Running with Scissors immediately cuts through the gauzy chiffon of the glossed-over sound that Afternoon Bike Ride have become known for. Opening with the languid, back-pocket bass groove and key flourishes of the sparse, soul-indebted “20 Seasons,” frontwoman Lia Kurihara laments the end of an era of her life, while simultaneously beginning another for both herself and the shapeshifting Montreal-based trio.
Kurihara has been through a lot. She started writing the band’s sophomore album, 2022’s Glossover, after becoming the primary caregiver for her father amid his Alzheimer’s diagnosis — a five-year endeavour ahead of his death in recent months. Everything she and co-conspirators David Tanton and Éloi LeBlanc-Riguette have…

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