Closed For The Festival is MIDI Janitor’s fourth full-length and is the follow-up to the Holy To Dogs LP, which was originally released on cassette in 2024 on legendary Vancouver tape label Hotham Sound and then in a vinyl edition by Toronto’s We Are Busy Bodies.
The Midi Janitor’s new album, Closed For The Festival, is a biography of Jonathan Orr’s shadow self.
Born from memories of his childhood spent wandering rural Ireland in Ballymore, Donegal on his grandmother’s Christian commune, Closed For The Festival masterfully straddles the line between warped joy and sinister naivety. As Orr states, “the songs are always trying to get to that moment of taking your hand and walking you into the woods on a pretty spring afternoon and then abandoning you there to figure out ‘how do I get out of here??’”
| A1 | Band 36 |
| A2 | Serenade Box |
| A3 | Voice At The Edge Of Summer |
| A4 | Sovereignty Figure |
| A5 | Sometimes Copies Were Made |
| A6 | Gone To Another Sky |
| B1 | Make Me, Your Weapon |
| B2 | Prevented By Doctrine |
| B3 | Closed For The Festival |
| B4 | Save All Here |
| B5 | Whisper In The Well |
| B6 | Jewelled Wounds |
