Toronto has always thrived on contradictions. It’s the type of music city that, in the late 2000s, birthed the distinct nihilistic electro-punk sounds of Crystal Castles and by the mid-2010s, gave rise to Drake who turned Toronto into the global capital of moody rap.
If you came to Ben Howard’s I Forget Where We Were 10th Anniversary Retrospective Tour expecting a note-for-note rendition of the British singer-songwriter’s most widely lauded album, you might be disappointed: this retrospective is about meeting the album in the present moment.