You may know TARIQ from Brasstronaut (or, maybe even as a CBC Radio 3 host back in the day) but this week he announced a brand new solo album, Telegrams, due out this spring from Tonic Records.

The instant-earworm “Coquihalla” is the first song from from the album, and Tariq says: "I wrote the song “Coquihalla” after reading a short story by the American writer Maile Meloy about a quirky rancher who falls madly in love with a night school teacher, though she doesn't quite see him in the same way"

Check it out below!