“I never will stop grieving.” When Leith Ross sings the first line of their sophomore album I Can See the Future, it isn’t angry or defeated or pleading. Instead, it’s calm, quietly accepting grief as an unavoidable part of the human condition that sticks itself to all corners of life and never gets unstuck. On “Grieving,” the Winnipeg-based indie singer-songwriter puts a country-folk spirit to a common feeling that is often difficult to describe; to mourn things that haven’t happened yet alongside the things that have: “I think I’ll love after I’m dead / And I’ll grieve while I’m alive.”
Joined by in-demand producer Rostam on the follow-up to their 2023 debut album To Learn, Ross doesn’t always place the past, present and future into three separate categories…