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Dan Bremnes Completes His Trilogy With New Album “The Hero & The Villain”
Dan Bremnes opened 2026 by closing a chapter, releasing his new album “The Hero & The Villain” on January 16 through Curb Records. The 15-track record completes the British Columbia artist’s ambitious autobiographical trilogy, a three-album arc that has traced his story of faith with unusual honesty.
True to the way Bremnes has always worked, the album was recorded around the globe, from Costa Rica to Sweden, gathering its sound from the road he has travelled as one of Canadian Christian music’s most travelled artists. The opening track, “Started With You,” sets the tone for a record that wrestles openly with faith, anxiety, identity and vulnerability, the inner conflict promised by its title: the hero and the villain who share the same heart.
Bremnes, who hails from the Salmon Arm and Kamloops region of British Columbia, first broke through with “Where The Light Is,” which won the Juno Award for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year in 2016. In the decade since, he has built a reputation for pairing polished pop songwriting with lyrics that refuse to tidy up the hard parts of believing.
That tension is the engine of “The Hero & The Villain.” Rather than resolving the struggle into a slogan, the album sits inside it, tracing how grace meets a person who can be faithful and faltering in the same day. As the final instalment of his trilogy, it brings Bremnes’ most personal songwriting project to its conclusion, and underlines his standing as one of the defining Canadian voices in contemporary Christian music.
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Vancouver worship outfit The Slower I Go released their single “Holy Sanctuary” on March 20 through NRT Music, a song built less like a performance and more like a prayer meeting caught on record. Credited to The Slower I Go alongside Noah Priebe and Brooklyn Summer, the single was written by Logan Murph, Brooklyn Summer and Noah Priebe.
The song’s heartbeat is a simple, repeated cry: “Come through, come through, come through.” Rather than building toward a single big moment, “Holy Sanctuary” circles that refrain the way a congregation circles a prayer, letting repetition do the work of surrender. It is worship written for the room as much as for the listener, an invitation to slow down, as the band’s name suggests, and make space for God to move.
The Slower I Go is a four-piece made up of Noah Priebe, Brooklyn Summer, Dacey Lane and Logan York, and “Holy Sanctuary” has not been their only word in 2026. The year has also brought the singles “All Eyes On You” and “Rejoice,” and the group followed “Holy Sanctuary” with “SHOCK!,” a collaboration with Zane Walls that landed in NewReleaseToday’s new releases for the week of June 5, showing a band comfortable moving between intimate worship and bolder, pop-leaning territory.
Canada’s worship scene has always been at its strongest when its songs are born in local rooms, and The Slower I Go sound like exactly that: a Vancouver band writing from the middle of a praying community. “Holy Sanctuary” is their open door, and the invitation could not be simpler. Come through.
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