A Montreal-based artist and grizzled veteran of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Roby wrote Beacon in 2015 following the death of her father. Collaborating with her brother Eliot — and using synthesizers and drum machines from her father’s studio — Roby sought to craft a “spiritual homage,” both to her father, and to the beacon the album takes its title from (a Napoleonic War-era watch tower that still sits atop Ashurst Hill in Dalton, Lancashire.) Fittingly, Roby’s music is awash with ethereal synths, imbued with a sense of longing for a place, moment, or feeling, like its searching for a guiding light in the darkness.
| A1 | Given Signs | 4:03 |
| A2 | Ballad 5 | 3:39 |
| A3 | Catalyst | 3:43 |
| A4 | Plasticine Hills | 3:42 |
| B1 | Beacon | 4:51 |
| B2 | Tripling | 3:02 |
| B3 | Air Above Mirage | 3:37 |
| B4 | Borders | 4:31 |
