Though Nashville remains the cradle of country, Canada has a pretty long history with it too, taking the styles and sounds of its Southern neighbors and applying its own rustic, regional spin. Honky-tonk, outlaw ballads, beat-driven pop crossovers—these songs represent a cross-section of Canada’s best modern country. This week, High Valley drops a new single, the dusky, no-frills love song “I’m Leavin’ You.” The band’s lead vocalist Brad Rempel shares with Apple Music that the song, which dips a toe into the 2010s-era stomp-clap sound currently influencing much of country music, originally featured “a more standard melody,” but that his rootsier inclinations shaped the final track. “Every time we took a break from recording the vocal, I’d catch myself channeling my inner bluegrass side and singing the top of every melody with that passion,” he says. “We all fell in love with the new melody, and that’s how the hook of the song was born.” Listen to it now and add Canada’s Country to your library to stay up on the songs shaping the future of country music.