The Holy Gasp

Founded in 2011 by poet and composer Benjamin Hackman, The Holy Gasp make music for fans of theatrical, darkly comical, genre-defiant entertainment. Their 2015 record, The Last Generation of Love, was regarded as “a future cult-classic debut” by The Toronto Star, as “undoubtedly one of the best Canadian albums of the year” by Grayowl Point, and as “one of the best albums to come out of Toronto in 2015” by Toronto Music Reviews.

In 2018, The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex, a 27-person concept album, was released and reached #1 on the Earshot Campus Radio Charts in Windsor and Detroit. The subject of a CBC Short Doc, the album was described by Sacred Exile as “…ultimately unlike anything you have heard before,” and to quote Dominionated: “From the most painful and precarious of predicaments, The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex rises as a creative masterpiece.”

The Holy Gasp is presently excited to share their brand-new release, their third studio album, ...And the Lord Hath Taken Away, a 45-person orchestral suite based on the Book of Job, with animated music videos which have taken home the Audience Choice Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival, and been honoured as an Official Selection in the Oscar-qualifying International Short Film category at the Chilemonos International Animation Festival in Santiago, Chile.