ENVISION WELCOMES BELLS LARSEN
Photo: Lawrence Fafard
We’re thrilled to welcome Bells Larsen to the Envision roster.
A Toronto-born, Montreal-based songwriter, Larsen crafts intricate acoustic arrangements and searing folk ballads that trace the contours of queer world-making, memory, and becoming.
His forthcoming sophomore album, Blurring Time (out April 25 via Royal Mountain Records), collapses time into a series of patient ceremonies—guided by the satisfaction of simply being as a political act.
Aligning with the timeline of his transition, Larsen recorded his previous “high” voice in 2022, paused, and returned after beginning testosterone to record new vocals with producer Graham Ereaux. Longtime friend Georgia Harmer helped arrange harmonies for his “low” voice, creating duets between past and present selves. “I didn’t want to have to choose between showcasing my past or present,” says Larsen, “I wanted to change or to and.”
With the quiet intensity of Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, and Adrienne Lenker, Larsen crafts grounding reflections on sibling dynamics, queer world-making, and shared epiphanies—songs that hold space for tenderness, transformation, and time, while remaining unmistakably his own.
Bells’s 2022 debut album Good Grief marked him as a singular voice in indie folk—earning features in The Line of Best Fit, CBC, and Exclaim!, and sharing stages with Buck Meek, Land of Talk, and Martha Wainwright.
“Listening to a Bells Larsen track feels like a homecoming.” -The Line Of Best Fit
“The unvarnished honesty and worn charm of a bedroom recording while retaining a sense of immaculate beauty.” -Under The Radar