“We’re just getting started and the Mountains Are Calling,” sings Pete on the closing track of With Violet’s brand new ep Your Sunday Best. It seems like more than a lyric for the band, it seems more like a philosophy. They’ve been on an impressive trajectory to the mountain tops and maybe beyond… I mean, have you seen the video for Gravity?

The band has spent the last year-and-a-half performing all over the province including a headlining set at Writers of Woody Point: Spring Thaw and an opening set at the Iceberg Alley Performance Tent with Walk Off The Earth and The Beaches. In July they released their acclaimed Saturday Nights In ep. They’ve just been nominated for two MusicNL awards, and now they have new music.

Your Sunday Best extends their catalog of high-energy, alt-pop with three polished pieces that are going to appeal to a wide range of listeners. With a sound that is contemporary but leans into a 1970s era light-funk feel. It’s the kind of stuff that’s going to make you dance and belt along to the clever — but imminently singable— lyrics. In short, it’s another helping of everything that makes With Violet a band to love.

Nowhere is that more evident than on the song ‘The Mountains Are Calling.’

It opens with an infectious groove, then the lyrics kick in. On a cursory level it seems to be about ambition, “lace up your shoes… don’t fall behind… the Mountains are Calling” but, when you pay attention, you hear more. It’s really about living, being present and putting down your phone to see what “the camera just don’t understand.” It tells a relatable ‘story’ that’s going to lift moods, inspire people, and maybe even make them hike, too… ‘Cause if somebody doesn’t want to licence the chorus to play over a video of Gros Morne in a tourism ad, I’d be shocked.

But I digress.

According to With Violet, this year’s EPs took two years to craft and were culled from over 30 song demos. The work has payed off.

Your Sunday Best and Saturday Nights In deserve to be heard.

Get them on the band’s website or wherever you get your music.

Listen to ‘Mountains are Calling’ and a whole lot of other great music from Newfoundland and Labrador on the NL Mixtape.