In between performing with groups Miracle Fortress and Telefauna, Amethyst Amulet was handcrafted with the tools Adam Waito had available in his Montreal apartment. In the spirit of long-lost concept albums of the past, Amethyst Amulet tells a story through unified musical and lyrical themes, yet remains, essentially, a collection of good pop songs about love and small-town remembrance, earnestly but playfully composed and humbly realized at home in the big city.

Live, Waito is joined by drummer Nathan Ward and guitarist Jessie Stein, both from Miracle Fortress, as well as long-time collaborator, pianist Katherine Peacock of Telefauna. With sweet vocal harmonies, rock guitars, fluttering keys, and creative percussive arrangements, Adam & the Amethysts perform compelling live renditions of the songs of Amethyst Amulet that sparkle and thump.

Not unlike a large percentage of active musicians in every big city, Waito grew up in a small town. Waito's supernatural lo-fi opus, Amethyst Amulet, is unified by an overarching focus on the remote Northern Ontario town of Thunder Bay where he grew up (one of the rare locations to mine amethyst in Canada). In its 13 tracks that traverse a great deal of sonic and musical territory–from tender Neil Youngian balladry, to reverb-drenched '60s pop, to fuzzy '90s-nostalgic indie rock–the listener can trace a narrative about revisiting the people, places, and events of the small towns that shape the identities of many urbanites, that we wear and carry with us to work, to school, and on tour with rock bands.