Slow Leaves - aka Grant Davidson from Winnipeg - stands for sensitive indie folk that speaks softly and yet resonates for a long time. His music combines warm fingerpicking, gentle psych-rock echoes and a voice that aims straight for the heart: clear, vulnerable, comforting. Critics compare him to Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, Mickey Newbury or Neil Young - songwriters who combine emotion with simplicity and depth.
Davidson's new songs revolve around inner landscapes: memories, family imprints, generational lines, small wounds and quiet growth. He writes with a poetic directness that creates intimacy without becoming heavy. His arrangements remain deliberately restrained: guitar, gentle rhythms, warm keyboard sounds, subtle strings - all in the service of an emotionally clear narrative voice.
What makes Slow Leaves special is its ability to translate cosmic themes - time, loneliness, connectedness - into simple, human moments. It is music that leaves space: to breathe, to remember, to find solace. Quiet but haunting songwriting that makes the big visible in the small.
Slow Leaves is the solo project of Winnipeg-based songwriter and producer Grant Davidson, whose work combines folk and psych-rock with an understated emotional precision that has earned him a Western Canadian Music Award and a loyal international following. With releases on Birthday Cake Records, Slow Leaves has amassed over 3.5 million streams, receives regular radio play in Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, and tours Canada, the UK and Europe.
"The Ruins of Things Unfinished" is Davidson's sixth album of new material and his most immediate recording to date. Recorded mostly live with producer Kris Ulrich, the album captures the intimacy and emotional depth of Slow Leaves' songs with a new sense of presence and warmth.
The album deals with inherited trauma, ambition, parenthood and the quiet work of self-reflection and takes its title from Fernando Pessoa's line "I am made of the ruins of unfinished things".
