JESSICA PRATT HERE IN THE PITCH MEXICAN SUMMER Those familiar with Jessica Pratt might be mainly accustomed to her excellent songwriting usually based on her no less incredible vocals and acoustic guitar. Her songwriting was always that good [...]
JOHN CARPENTER LOST THEMES IV: NOIR SACRED BONES John Carpenter, the “Prince of Darkness”, is widely known as a movie-maker and composer for some of the best science fiction, action, and horror movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Carpenter has joined [...]
DEA MATRONA FOR YOUR SINS INDEPENDENT The highly-anticipated debut album For Your Sins from Orláith Forsythe and Mollie McGinn of the Irish rock duo Dea Matrona has finally arrived. For Your Sins drips with flavour and style. It features [...]
JOHN MCKIEL HEX YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS With the release of his fourth album Hex, Jon Mckiel finds new ways to push traditional song structures and production boundaries. The New Brunswick native returns with this 10-song LP following the [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS PUNK FLOYD – A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD CLEOPATRA RECORDS When Dirk McQuickly left The Rutles, he formed The Punk Floyd. This album, Punk Floyd – A Tribute To Pink Floyd, is not the long lost album by that band, but rather punk [...]
CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON CYAN BLUE STONE WOMAN MUSIC/XL RECORDINGS With the release of her second full-length album, Charlotte Day Wilson provides a captivating musical production, one that is as engaging as it is sonically mesmerizing. Fans of the [...]
FRANK TURNER UNDEFEATED XTRA MILE RECORDINGS Frank Turner is famously prolific. This is now his tenth studio album, and it’s a defiant and typically sing-a-long howl from Turner, particularly on songs like the opener “Do One”, but perhaps best [...]
LIGHTNING BUG NO PARADISE INDEPENDENT The band Lightning Bug is back with their newest LP, No Paradise. It’s crazy to think it’s been nearly three years since their previous album, A Color Of The Sky. What’s crazier is the wonder of why we [...]
LYD MARIE /LOVE GOES INDEPENDENT Lydia Froncek, aka Lyd Marie is one of those artists that seems to never be satisfied standing still. After all, she started her first band at the age of eight, she was a member of Austin, Texas’ all female world [...]
ACCEPT HUMANOID NAPALM RECORDS Accept can be considered one of the most legendary German heavy metal bands to have formed in 1976. Since their inception, they have not only become one of the most successful German acts, but they have also made a [...]
PERSONAL TRAINER WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE? INDEPENDENT Personal Trainer’s debut EP, What Was There Before?, is a display of what once was, mourning girlhood and grasping onto any hallucination of innocence that can be found in the “bottom of your [...]
STEPHEN SANCHEZ ANGEL FACE (CLUB DELUXE) MERCURY RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC In 2023 I reviewed Stephen Sanchez’s debut album, Angel Face for Spill Magazine. Although I did not include it in the original review, I do recall thinking [...]
A CLOUD OF RAVENS LOST HYMNS (EXTENDED) METROPOLIS RECORDS/NEXILIS Lost Hymns, the third release by Brooklyn-based Goth duo A Cloud of Ravens, displays their great ability to innovate the genre with a hint of symphony, but fails to escape a [...]
THE LOSTINES MEET THE LOSTINES GAR HOLE RECORDS Picking up a sound from any of the past decades, a ‘blast from the past’, if you will, and then recreating that sound for modern times, is not as easy as it might seem. You have to know [...]
HOVVDY HOVVDY ARTS & CRAFTS Following the success of their 2022 EP billboard for my feelings, Texas duo Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, better known as Hovvdy, has returned with a new self-titled double album. The duo has found themselves on [...]
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 [...]
JUSTICE HYPERDRAMA ED BANGER RECORDS/BECAUSE MUSIC Justice’s highly anticipated fourth album, Hyperdrama, is now here. It has been more than seven years since their previous album, Woman. Even more, they have released a few singles in [...]
GOSPELBEACH WIGGLE YOUR FINGERS CURATION RECORDS Gospelbeach is a band out of Los Angeles. Wiggle Your Fingers is an incredibly well-produced and well-written album that is full of strong melodies, fantastic lyrics, and spirit. Although they are [...]
THUNDER QUEENS STRIKE ONE VICTORY POOL Thunder Queens is a trio out of London, Ontario, consisting of Violet Bruneel, Lola Hayman, and Clara Magnan. Their debut album, Strike One, is a rocking good time of punk, grunge, 70s metal, and riot [...]
BIRDFEEDER WOODSTOCK SOUL SELECTS You don’t get any socials for seemingly anonymous Birdfeeder. Frankly, you don’t really need them as this is a sort of a left-field supergroup playing some laid-back (well, not all the time), [...]
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 [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS LOVE, LA ORG MUSIC Compilation albums have often been hit-and-miss, over the course of recorded music history, but that is not the case with Love, LA. This multi-artist release is a rare gem among the ‘compilation’ genre. As a [...]
