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# ACTORS - Acts of Worship
- URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/actors-acts-of-worship/
- Published: 2021-10-07T09:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-28T02:16:48.000Z
- Description: The Vancouver band Actors released their album Acts of Worship on Friday, October 1, 2021 with Artoffact Records.
- Author: Will Chernoff
- Tags: Free Weekly

The Vancouver band Actors (stylized in *all caps*) released their album *Acts of Worship* Friday, October 1, 2021 on Artoffact Records.

Actors call themselves a *darkwave* band. I’m not steeped in darkwave, but it combines German alternative pop/rock music with the general late-70s, early-80s *new wave*. It’s close to *post-punk*.

This band has the true panache of new wave, letting some three- and four-note synths do a ton of work*.* Check that out on the first two tracks, “Love U More” and “Like Suicide”:

These first two tracks give a concept album feel, with some aspects of the arrangement running through both of them. Like that incredible bass tone!

The tempos hold within a narrow range for the first several tracks. Bandmates Jason Corbett, Kendall Wooding, Shannon Hemmett, and Adam Fink set a thick mood. And Corbett recorded the whole album in his studio.

Then, “Death From Above” comes in with a refreshing shuffle groove. But before you know it, we’re back to four-on-the-floor.

But my favourite track is “Strangers”:

Actors are a band of experts. They get around, they sell, and they’re consistently awesome at what they do. They found their sound.

Many words written about Actors include an idea like this. If you come from a certain generation, older than mine, you might fail the blindfold test with them.

You might think they’re your favourite band from 1979.

It’s *quite* hard to be that for an audience and *also* be a fresh beacon of creativity. And someone who folks can go see with their friends while having an unforgettable time, *this year* and not in 1981.

They’re like the opposite of Greta Van Fleet.

Is it possible that one of the greatest *post-punk, new-wave* bands is active *today* and not forty years ago?

ACTORS: Yes!

*Listen to Acts of Worship by ACTORS on* [*Bandcamp*](https://actors.bandcamp.com/album/acts-of-worship?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)*.*

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