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Listen to Laura June RoseWritten while moving from Vancouver to Winnipeg, the four songs on Laura June Rose’s debut EP Passages — released this week for free or with a donation on her Bandcamp — is a retrospective roadmap that tracks a songwriter finding her way back and forward.

“I view the four songs and stories on this album as ‘passages’ in many senses of the word,” writes Rose, who also plays drums with the O.D. Beresford band.

“They are a way of exit from the punk and rock ’n’ roll subcultures that I grew up (with) in Calgary, Alberta, and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as a way of entrance into the American folk revival, outlaw country, and contemporary Celtic traditional movements,” Rose writes. “They move through different geographical locations, psychological and spiritual conditions, and stages of my early adulthood.”

The first track, titled Winnipeg, sees Rose “in the village,” finding “a hole with a lonesome sound” in a pub on Osborne Street. “And the room was empty — almost no one around,” Rose drawls. “But he played the songs I knew.”