Abigail Lapell Stolen Time (Deluxe Edition) Outside Music Exactly a year and a day after its initial release, Abigail Lapell is rereleasing her Stolen Time album, this time as a deluxe edition. So, what has happened to the Toronto [...]
Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World So Recordings Enter Shikari has never been what you call ordinary when attempting to label the music they create within the post-hardcore scene. Establishing a unique and fresh electronicore soundscape [...]
Jethro Tull RökFlöte Inside Out Music/Sony Music RökFlöte is Jethro Tull’s 23rd studio and their first album since 2022’s The Zealot Gene. Thankfully fans did not have to wait 20 years for the follow-up to that very successful album, as that had [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Ok, is there really an answer to this question “will the “Brown Acid” series of compilations, now in its sixteenth edition, ever end?” Well, maybe it is not a [...]
Jesus Piece …So Unknown Century Media Over the past 10 years, the landscape of metalcore has mutated into various forms, with a penchant for the melody/breakdown routine of the post-hardcore movement. Philadelphia’s Jesus Piece has instead [...]
Ann-Margret Born To Be Wild Cleopatra Records These days, people forget that Ann-Margret, along with being a movie star, was also a very popular recording artist. She sang with Elvis Presley and The Beatles even covered one of her early hits [...]
Metallica 72 Seasons Blackened Recordings After polarising their audience with what I considered to be the very strong, albeit unnecessarily excessive album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, Metallica has returned with its first studio album since [...]
Gord Sinclair In Continental Drift Pheromone Recordings/Cadence Music Group Gord Sinclair returns with his sophomore solo album, In Continental Drift, the follow-up to his solo debut 2020 release, Taxi Dancers. Sinclair, well-known for his bass [...]
The Watchmen Silent Radar (Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Canada 25 years after the initial release of Silent Radar, Winnipeg’s The Watchmen, through Universal Music Canada, are releasing a Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition. [...]
Fur Trader Stuck In The Aching Again Independent How do you keep up the traditional sound of prime singer songwriters of late 60s and early 70s and at the same time present your music with an individual touch that sets you apart? Los Angeles [...]
ferna understudy Independent It is ok to be humble as a musician, particularly if you are just coming up with your debut album. But Belfast, Northern Ireland singer songwriter Hannah McPhillimy, aka ferna, as her debut album understudy shows, [...]
Fruit Bats A River Running To Your Heart Merge Records Fruit Bats and their songwriter Eric D. Johnson have been around for a while, and they have been constantly coming up with some of the more sophisticated, elegant, and often subdued folk [...]
Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) Warner Records Few albums deserve a mark of perfection when it comes to production, writing, and instrumental world-building. For Linkin Park, the album that comes to mind is Meteora. When the album [...]
Daughter Stereo Mind Game Glassnote Records/4AD After seven years, Daughter has released another album. It was worth the wait. Stereo Mind Game features poetic lyrics, stunning instrumentation, and powerful vocals. Each track is incredibly [...]
American Grandma Rare Knives Of Light Independent American Grandma and its new album Rare Knives Of Light, is more strong proof that there is slowcore revival going on. Now, don’t just revisit those Codeine or Bark Psychosis albums, [...]
Nico Paulo Nico Paulo Forward Music Group It might be a strange choice for some to exchange the milder climes of Portugal for Newfoundland, but for singer songwriter Nico Paulo, that just might have been the right thing to do to come up with [...]
Yaeji With A Hammer XL Recordings On a debut album that was heavily-anticipated by the global electronic scene, Yaeji’s sound manifests as an ocean of ideas, each tide brimming with intriguing influences and provoking artistic choices. The [...]
Covet Catharsis Triple Crown Records It’s hard to manipulate vocals, guitars, bass, pianos, and drums to beautifully articulate sun-drenched guitar patterns and beachfront atmospherics into one’s music from start to finish on an [...]
Hayden Are We Good Arts & Crafts Hayden is definitely one of the more prolific artists out there. After all, it took him some eight years to come up with Are We Good, his latest album. Yet one of the things the Toronto singer-songwriter has [...]
Area Resident Phosphene Surkeus Records Phosphene is Area Resident’s seventh album, and its first of all new material since 2022’s Quasar. Here, Doug Hempstead, also known as Area Resident, is co-producing with Jordon Zadorozny, and the end [...]
Vicious Beast I Am Drugs Independent Over the last year or so, Monster Truck’s lead vocalist and bassist Jon Harvey has been teasing his latest project through social media. Vicious Beast came to life through a handful of scorching live dates [...]
Peter Daltrey & The Know Escape Running Through Chelsea Think Like A Key Music Running Through Chelsea is a good example of how music can mesh together from different genres and different eras. Peter Daltrey has been making music since the [...]
The Who The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley Universal Music Six decades into their career, The Who continues to experiment with its performances, justifying its worth as one of the greatest bands of its era. Their 2019 tour saw the British [...]
Filter The Amalgamut (20th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Just over 20 years ago, Richard Patrick released Filter’s third album, The Amalgamut. The album was a triumph and marked the conclusion of a three-album era – which kicked off with [...]
