专辑简介

Simone Schmidt is one of the most criminally underrated songwriters in Canada. Lately, that may have something to do with her splintering discography. Since putting her former country band One Hundred Dollars on indefinite hiatus, she’s put out two albums in 2013 under two different names, but with the same lineup of players: Paul Mortimer, Simone TB and Kyle Porter. The Highest Order’s debut, If It’s Real, is the rock band record, a place for Schmidt and Mortimer to marry their traditionally-structured country tunes to spacey, psych-rock arrangements. Fiver’s debut, Lost The Plot, on the other hand, is Schmidt’s pseudo-solo record, the freer outlet for her folk songs to stretch out of the conventions of genre. For two records with the same lineup of players and the same primary songwriter, they each have their own flavour.