Home Front Visit the Liminal Space Between Growing Up and Growing Apart on “Between The Waves”

Between The Waves is a slow, steady exhale from a band that usually hits like a brick through a windshield. Here, the old-school 80s style synths cinematics bend like distant signals skipping across a cold horizon, while the rhythm section carries the weight of someone taking stock of their life at 2:17 AM, hands in pockets, staring at the floor tiles as if they’ll answer back. There’s no melodrama, no pleading, no cheap uplift…just the truth of standing between phases of your own existence, watching the tide pull something familiar out of your reach.

The band lays it bare: “Between The Waves is about that lonely journey we all take at some point in our lives,” the band reflects. “Where we wander away from the numbers to seek meaning. A solitary space between connecting with people. Call it growing up or growing apart, but this is the place we all visit from time to time to remember who we are. In all this confusion the space between the waves is where we discover things will never be the same again, yet we move forward in this new skin.”

That’s the gravity of the track: forward motion, even when everything inside you feels stuck in wet concrete. It’s a quiet push toward becoming someone you haven’t met yet. There’s a thread from Altered Images to Killing Joke to The Damned running through it, but Between The Waves is the hinge: the quiet room before the next door opens, the breath drawn before everything changes.

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Only after that pulse settles does Watch It Die come into view. Home Front formed in 2020, but the lifetimes leading up to it are everywhere in the record’s DNA. Graeme MacKinnon and Clint Frazier have spent decades stitching together DIY scenes, shuttling between cramped venues and community spaces across the Canadian prairies, building networks out of frayed cables and stubborn hope.

Watch It Die harnesses every scrap of history MacKinnon and Frazier have earned the hard way. The duo pulls those textured Tangerine Dream atmospheres into their own orbit and fires them straight into rhythms built for anyone bracing themselves to take the first swing in the biggest fight of their life. The production, pieced together in home studios across Edmonton with trusted longtime collaborators, keeps the whole record alert, restless, and humming with lived-in resolve.

But the album doesn’t stand around pointing fingers at the world or drowning in the heaviness of the moment. It steps forward. It plants both feet in the dust and offers a strange, necessary spark of optimism; a sense that loneliness doesn’t have to hollow you out, that desperation can turn into direction, that time isn’t a thief so much as a teacher. Watch It Die holds the pain it names and hurls itself beyond it, dragging us along with the assurance of people who’ve scraped together enough experience to live past their own limits.

It reads like a road map of hope, one drawn by calloused hands that know the terrain. MacKinnon and Frazier explain: “Watch It Die comes at a very transformative time: geopolitically, musically, and in our personal lives. With friends and close family dying, and massive uncertainty everywhere, the album captures what it’s like to step into a ‘new world’ where the old reassurance of ‘everything is gonna work out fine’ feels like a joke. We watch rich people get richer while the rest of us fight to get by; we watch colonizers kill without consequence; we watch people choose ignorance even with information at their fingertips. Watch It Die speaks to our own humanity, a rebirth into a world that can never go back to what it was. We suffer for their dreams, but it’s also a call to recognize the power in our communities and energize them toward a better way of life. We have always been an anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-peace band. We stand against crimes against human rights; we stand with Palestine; we stand with Canadian Indigenous communities fighting for treaty rights, clean drinking water, and healing from generational trauma. If there’s one takeaway, it’s that our music should be a safe space where our community gathers, airs out its grief, and imagines a new future together.”

The album moves with that conviction: an embrace of what hurts, and a hand pulling you toward what might still be possible.

Listen to Between The Waves below and order Watch It Die here.