2013 | Group of the Year | Marianas Trench | | The JUNO Awards

Welcome to Ever After. A fairytale and a single, 54 minute track stitched from 12 discrete songs – the most audacious songs Marianas Trench has ever crafted. Ever After is constructed around a story written by lead singer Josh Ramsay himself and then finessed into an accompanying booklet. It’s an actual physical experience; a warm throwback to the album era when your music was more than a bunch of orphaned songs sitting on an endless iPod playlist. “All the songs live on their own as songs, but they also serve the purpose of telling the story throughout the record,” he explains. As for the seamless hour-long symphony he constructed, Ramsay adds, “I wanted to do that on the last record but as a writer I wasn’t ready. I had to step it up, which is also why I decided to produce Ever After on my own. If this is all going to tie together, then you really need to see it through yourself.” It’s insane and brilliant. It puts the cherry on top of Marianas Trench’s mad, multi-media vision. What Marianas Trench has done with Ever After is create the story and soundtrack to a dark Tim Burton rock opera that hasn’t been made yet.