When Light by Kary was released in 2004, it marked the end of an era. It was a swan song for the Yarmouth-via-Halifax band of high school friends and musical co-conspirators. The bonds formed and the musical depths explored in Kary would continue over decades and reshape the Canadian indie music world, but Light captured the tense, kinetic start of something, an east coast prog-, post-, and alt-rock powder keg beginning to combust. Now, a rerelease via newly-minted Halifax label Cape Records celebrates this simultaneous ending and beginning of two important and influential eras of Atlantic and Canadian music.