Teen Daze Themes For Dying Earth Flora Jamison Isaak, better known as electronic indie-pop artist Teen Daze, is back with a new album, Themes For Dying Earth. It is a highly collaborative record, featuring artists like Jon Anderson, Dustin Wong, [...]
Teen Daze Morning World Paper Bag Records Laced with crunchy guitars, tastefully used strings, and plenty of synthesizers, Morning World sounds cinematic at times, like it could soundtrack a dialogue-free film or a commercial. The newest release [...]
Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon Arts & Crafts Records Goon, the debut album of Vancouver-based songster Tobias Jesso Jr., sounds like it came straight from the 1970s. Part early solo-McCartney, part Billy Joel, and part Randy Newman, the songs on Goon [...]
Rodrigo Amarante Cavalo Easy Sound Saudade is a Portuguese word known for being notoriously difficult to translate into English. Roughly, it comes to mean a sense of profound melancholy or longing, and it is a common element in the music of [...]
Local Natives Hummingbird Frenchkiss Records Sophomore slumps are a hard thing to avoid when making music; so many bands fall victim to this unfortunate phenomenon. Luckily, Local Natives isn’t one of those bands. Their highly-anticipated [...]
FIDLAR FIDLAR Mom + Pop Records We all have those days where we’re feeling feisty and ready to go out and stir up some trouble. LA-based FIDLAR’s new self-titled release is one way to get into that mindset. This record is oozing with raw power; [...]
Various Artists Girls – Volume 1: Music From The HBO Original Series Fueled By Ramen Wunderkind Lena Dunham’s smart and funny Girls has become one of this year’s out-of-nowhere cult TV hits, so it only makes sense that the soundtrack is [...]
Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? Polyvinyl Record Co. Tokyo-born multi-instrumentalist Shugo Tokumaru is back with a fun new album laden with maddening and enchanting sounds. From high-energy tunes that don’t seem to come with a brake pedal, to slower, [...]
Teen Daze The Inner Mansions Lefse Records Fraser Valley, of B.C.-based Teen Daze, is back with an atmospheric and hazy new album, his second full-length release to date. On The Inner Mansions, sounds float around and drift into one another, [...]
Esthero Everything Is Expensive Universal Music Canada Everything Is Expensive is Esthero’s first release since 2005’s Wikked Lil’ Grrrls. The Los Angeles-based Canadian-born singer returns with a poppy album brimming with heartfelt ballads and [...]
GRMLN Explore Carpark Records Placid, laid back, dreamy; these are three words that can be used to describe GRMLN’s debut Explore EP. Based out of California, GRMLN sounds the part; sunny and warm, tinged with hints of nostalgic melancholia. [...]
Hannah Georgas Hannah Georgas Dine Alone Records Hannah Georgas’ voice is a force to be reckoned with; light and sweet like pixie sticks, it effortlessly carries tunes as if they were feathers floating on a breeze. The self-titled album, Hannah [...]
Maximo Park The National Health V2 Records At this point, the members of Maximo Park are no strangers to the notion of the fast-paced Rock anthem. The National Health marks Newcastle-based Maximo Park’s fourth studio release, the band’s first [...]
The Breezes The Breezes Independent From the snowy streets of Montreal comes The Breezes, the new LP from the band with the same name. As the name of the record may imply, the band’s debut work is a collection of light, airy tunes that awaken a [...]
