Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Jason Collett
"Dark Times" single #1 from
Head Full Of Wonder: JasonCollett.lnk.to/HeadFullOfWonder

Jason Collett takes inspiration from this famed Bertolt Brecht epigram on the first single from his seventh studio album, Head Full Of Wonder (out November 4, 2022 on Arts & Crafts). Armed with the antidote to the din of the days, on "Dark Times," Collett layers breezy, jangly melodies over his patent prose, a folk song distinctly of the moment – music lifted up by the spirit of music itself. "I read those lines from Brecht's 1938 poem and immediately heard a melody, and the song came together without effort," Collett recalls. "The recording was similar, it came together pretty naturally in a live take."

Head Full Of Wonder finds the Toronto troubadour and scribe stepping out of his usual creative orbit, recording in Montreal with producer Marcus Paquin, joined by drummer Liam O'Neill (of SUUNS), guitarist Joe Grass, and bassist Mike O'Brien. A distillation of the five years since his Song And Dance Man, these eleven new songs hone in on the fine craft of songwriting, offering a direct and simple collection of elegant indie folk, some of the finest creations and poignant of Collett's storied career. "In absorbing the tumult of the times, there's a lot of shit to write through, (that Bruce Cockburn line comes to mind, "you've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight") and the challenge is to get to the other side with something positive to contribute." he says. "I let go of some swagger and embraced intimacy and joy and wonder. I hear this in the record and it makes me very happy to have made it.