Blending indie with equal parts folk-rock and traditional singer-songwriter, Holtby crafts songs that lyrically deal with everyday life, love, loss, the passage of time and reflection. “Pretending” covers all of these bases.
“This is a song about giving yourself the advice you’d want to give others” says Holtby. “There are certain inevitabilities in life that we all must face in one form or another. I’d found myself asking the same questions for a long time, and realizing nobody was going to save me unless I faced the facts and made these choices for myself. It’s about getting over it… whatever it might be.”
The song was produced by Holtby and longtime drummer and musical partner
Terrence Craig Toutant at Matthew’s home studio in Warkworth, Ontario with additional production by Rob DeBoer. It was mixed by Chad Skinner at Half Moon Audio in Toronto.
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