One of my favourite Canadian singer/songwriters is WiL, who is gearing up to release his 7th(!!) studio album. Gold Mine was written, recorded and entirely self produced at his home studio over the course of fourteen months, and the first taste of it is "A Long While".

The song is deeply personal, about the problems of staying with one person for a long time, with WiL saying "I think if you have established that you deeply love someone and can’t imagine life apart then you’ve got yourself a challenge worth facing head on. It is not possible to go back in time but it is possible to ask yourself what it was that made you fall in love in the first place. I would argue more than not it is because we saw the some kind of gold in that person.
"So yeah, It’s no secret that this song is about my wife and I. I think the most amazing thing is that she was OK with me airing my laundry. I mean; everyone goes through hard shit. It’s real. It’s life. I think the main thing is that I care. I care so damn much that I addressed it in a song!"

No word yet on when the album is due out, but you can catch his blurry hands live on February 18th at the Railway. And if you've never seen him live before, well, let's just say there's a reason his website and "online presence" is all named 'IBreakStrings'.