Their album Hawk Vs Pigeon was released last year in their native Canada, and appears in the UK via Aporia Records on November 25. Higgins started work on Dearly Beloved after having 80% of his large intestine removed to prevent suffering the illness that killed his father.

He spent 10 days in California, in a "haze of grief, pot-smoke and post-recovery morphine" � but it worked, and soon the album was being recorded at Rnacho de la Luna, favoured by Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age and the Eagles Of Death Metal.