artist Rituals

“...you’re well advised to get on Rituals’ debut EP – four tracks’ worth of grim, Goth-y goodness... as quickly as possible. This thing is deadly.” – Ben Rayner, Toronto Star

“...the three-piece cranked out slab after slab of upbeat, distortion-blasted epics,” - Exclaim Magazine

Lo-fi dream punk trio Rituals is the Toronto based project of ex-Haligonian art school graduate Adam Seward. After spending the winter of 2008 stock-piling grimy, pedal driven songs on a four-track tape machine that were reminiscent of the 90s and shoegaze psychedelia, Adam decided to form a band with friends. Rituals came to be when Matt Bourassa (ex-Sailboats Are White) and Leon Taheny (Germans, ex- Sebastian Grainger and The Mountains, and Polaris Prize production winner for Final Fantasy’s debut album He Poo’s Clouds) joined to help write and record the new material. Stemming from a diverse group of musical backgrounds, the trio began playing live together in June 2010 and quickly became a Toronto buzz band. Rituals self-released a 4 song tape in June 2011, followed by the release of their debut 7’ EP on Vancouver’s Unfamiliar Records in October 2011. Currently in the studio recording their upcoming LP