{"id":12964,"date":"2026-02-02T17:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:07:45","slug":"hut-huts-hut-hut-to-hit-shelves-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2026\/02\/02\/hut-huts-hut-hut-to-hit-shelves-shortly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut Hut’s “Hut Hut” to Hit Shelves Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The members of Hut Hut frolicking next to an intermodal container. Photo: Sara Smith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Longtime readers of this publication could be forgiven for wondering if we\u2019d heard the last of Mat Klachefsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past six years, the erstwhile Boats and Hut Hut frontman has shied away from the spotlight, choosing instead to focus on his job and raising his young children. Recently, he even concluded a term as president of Dodgeball Canada. But when faced with what he called a \u201creduction in [his] responsibilities\u201d at work, he found himself with more time on his hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018what a great time to record an album and go back to writing songs.\u2019\u201d The result is Hut Hut\u2019s long-awaited sophomore album, \u201cHut Hut\u201d<\/em>, slated for release on February 5, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the news comes as a surprise, it\u2019s likely because publicity is not a major consideration for the band at this point in their career. Klachefsky freely admits that \u201cI\u2019m terrible at promoting myself and my band, so I\u2019ll just promote \u2019em in the songs and that\u2019s all you need to do.\u201d Indeed, were it not for my periodic tendency to scroll through the \u201cWinnipeg\u201d tag on Bandcamp, I might have missed it altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hut Hut\u2019s impending return may well be for a limited time only. Although the band is playing an album release show at Public Domain on February 6 (with openers Ritchot Textiles and Naked Elevator Ride), they have no tour plans on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klachefsky pointed out that, in addition to himself, \u201cthere\u2019s two more dads in the band and their touring days are specifically finished. […] I would love to go on a small trip again, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s in the cards unless someone said they\u2019re gonna pay us a whole ton of money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then, he says, \u201cI\u2019m doing this shit on evenings and weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once titans of Winnipeg\u2019s indie pop scene, Klachefsky\u2019s projects now take a more cicada-like approach to musical output. Hut Hut\u2019s first album, Hut Hut Hut<\/em>, was released in 2020, a full seven years after Boats\u2019 last, A Fairway Full of Miners<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klachefsky retired the Boats moniker back in 2016 because, in his words, \u201cI didn\u2019t want to [keep] playing the songs that I wrote when I was 20 years old.\u201d And while three of the four band members who played on Hut Hut\u2019s inaugural effort previously appeared on Fairway<\/em>, the singer is careful to note that Hut Hut is not exactly a continuation of Boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the songs are different now. I\u2019ve listened to those earlier [Boats] records and they\u2019re very of their time. There\u2019s a lot of glockenspiel going on.\u201d Klachefsky attributes his musical development to \u201caging mentally very slowly. Now I\u2019m in my punk rock phase. I guess I was playing kids music in Boats and now I\u2019m angsty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, \u201cHut Hut\u201d<\/em> is distinctly \u201cless wacky\u201d than his previous work and is more influenced by \u201cpost-punk bands from the 2000s.\u201d Beyond that, Klachefsky was reluctant to go into detail about the album\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how to answer that. I hate describing music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Maggie A. Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime readers of this publication could be forgiven for wondering if we\u2019d heard the last of Mat Klachefsky. For the past six years, the erstwhile Boats and Hut Hut frontman has shied away from the spotlight, choosing instead to focus on his job and raising his young children. Recently, he even concluded a term as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1739],"tags":[120,1214,1746],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-interview","tag-boats","tag-hut-hut","tag-mat-klachefsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12966,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}