SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE TIME IS GLASS DRAG CITY Ben Chasny, or Six Organs Of Admittance, was never an artist that could be pinned down, and his albums so far ran through a gamut of sounds, from pastoral folk to full-on, loud psychedelia or [...]
KYP HARNESS KICK THE DUST INDEPENDENT After 30 years on the scene, you are free to call Kyp Harness a Canadian musical institution. Just take a look (and a listen) to a myriad of releases listed on his Bandcamp page and the fact that his take on [...]
COLOUR FILM HALF AN HOUR INDEPENDENT Matthew de Zoete, Hamilton, ON singer-songwriter, has been around for a while (since 2006, to be precise) and has been quietly making some sublime sounds ever since. Yet behind quietly lies the fact that Half [...]
KATY PINKE KATY PINKE GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS When you learn a bit more about Katy Pinke who just released her debut self-titled album, it is easy to find out that you have a true artist on your hands. Along with developing her musical career (she [...]
SET FEUX SET FEUX INDEPENDENT Officially, this is Set Feux’s debut, self-titled album. But, Toronto singer songwriter Diana Planche, who is behind the Set Feux moniker is also a member of The Paint Movement as the band’s [...]
DOG PARK FESTINA LENTE GÉOGRAPHIE Nominally, Paris-based quartet Dog Park is labeled as a dream pop band. Yet, these days, music labels (genres) are losing much of their sense as artists are blending in elements in their music that seemingly do [...]
MICHAEL FEUERSTACK ETERNITY MONGERS FORWARD MUSIC GROUP/BACKWARD MUSIC Michael Feuerstack is no stranger to talk about delicate things in life through music, nor to having a concept run through his albums. And, judging by his latest, Eternity [...]
SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN MYSTIC HITS ROYAL OAKIE Sugar Candy Mountain’s Mystic Hits is an album that has been out of print for a while now (a decade or so), and in the meantime has earned that mystic tag from its title. Starting out as duo of [...]
ASHA JEFFERIES EGO RIDE NETTWERK If you are of the opinion that well-crafted, sophisticated pop is not worth your time, you just might as well move on and pass on Asha Jefferies’ new album Ego Ride. On the other hand, even if you do have [...]
JADE BIRD BURN THE HARD DRIVE GLASSNOTE RECORDS Expressing your personal life, feelings, and observations would be quite a double-edged sword for singer-songwriters. To make it work, the artists who take that route have to make a solid [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS UNDER THE BRIDGE 2 SKEP WAX RECORDS Sarah Records is one of those stories in pop that long-lasting fandom is made of. The artists recording for the label at the time it was active were dubbed twee, and the whole scene surrounding [...]
FLUNG ALL HEARTBEAT GET BETTER RECORDS With All Heartbeat, her third album, Kashika Kollaikal, aka Flung has just confirmed that she is currently one of the more inventive artists using electronic music elements in their music. She already [...]
PHILLIP LAMMONDS COWBOY THINGS CURB RECORDS The name of Phillip Lammonds might not be so familiar, even for some avid fans of Americana/country music, even though Lammonds has been on the scene for decades now. The reason for that might simply [...]
CREATION REBEL HIGH ABOVE HARLESDEN 1978-2023 ON-U SOUND After being quiet for a while, dub innovators Creation Rebel returned last year with a new set of dub delicacies, again under the helm of Adrian Sherwood and his On-U-Sound titled Hostile [...]
MAGANA TEETH AUDIO ANTIHERO For singer-songwriters, or any artist going solo, it has now almost become a must to step out of the standard expectations for the genre and go the way of introspective personal music with just a voice and a single, [...]
R.E. SERAPHIN FOOL’S MATE TAKE A TURN/SAFE SUBURBAN HOME RECORDS It feels a bit like power pop was in a bit of a doghouse after its second upsurge in the 90s, but with quite a new number of artists favoring the genre (or sub-genre, if you [...]
NAN MACMILLAN FROM BOTH EYES INDEPENDENT Some would say that these days that singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen. Of course, when releasing your music has become so easy without even having a record label, such proliferation is imminent. So [...]
ARSUN BABE I HEAR THUNDER IN YOUR HEART INDEPENDENT You can follow in the footsteps of a giant like Bob Dylan, but to come up with some credible music in such a manner you still have to have at least a modicum of your own personality, musical [...]
BREEZERS HIDEAWAY INDIE AM GOLD Breezers is yet another musical moniker and behind it is L.A.-based singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Evan apRoberts. apRoberts is essentially an L.A. scene veteran since he’s been on that scene [...]
THE TAJ MAHAL SEXTET SWINGIN’ LIVE AT THE CHURCH IN TULSA LIGHTNING ROD RECORDS For some musical masters, no matter what genre they are working within, it just might be hard to keep it at your best for decades. Even more so if they have [...]
TISH MELTON WHEN WE’RE OLDER CMND SHFT It seems Brandi Carlisle has an acute sense of where good musical values lie. A big name in her own right, she was recently involved in the revival of Joni Mitchell’s career, and is also working [...]
JULIEN CHANG HOME FOR THE MOMENT TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS No, this is not the fashion designer some might be familiar with, but a singer songwriter who has two quite solid album from 2019 and 2022 behind him, coming up with this relatively brief, [...]
HANNAH FRANCES KEEPER OF THE SHEPHERD RUINATION RECORD CO. From the moment “Bronwyn” opens up on Keeper of The Shepherd, the new album by Hannah Frances, you realize she has been immersed with music since she can probably remember. [...]
FUR TRADER EXECUTIONLAND INDEPENDENT Andrew Pelletier isn’t exactly a fur trader, although he uses that moniker to release his music. On the other hand, he just might be, if you are replacing real furs with some cozy, fuzzy, truly melodic [...]
