Sparks ANNETTE (CANNES EDITION – SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) Milan Records Sparks have been very busy of late. In 2020 they released A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, which was followed by a very interesting documentary [...]
John Jenkins If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love Fretsore Records If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love is John Jenkins seventh studio album, and he just keeps getting better and better. Building on the brilliant Growing Old – [...]
Night Ranger ATBPO Frontiers Music SRL ATBPO (which stands for And The Band Played On) is Night Ranger’s 13th studio album, and for this one, their first since 2017’s Don’t Let Up, they come out rocking hard. From the opening track to the last, [...]
George Harrison All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary Edition) Apple/Universal All Things Must Pass was originally released in November, 1970. It was George Harrison’s third solo album, following 1968’s soundtrack, Wonderwall Music By George [...]
Steve Benjamins Volume 1 Independent Sometimes a musician comes along whose approach and delivery of their craft speaks volumes to the soul. Steve Benjamins has been one of those for me, with his music that speaks of faith, love, the beautiful [...]
Hipbone Slim And The Kneetremblers Tremblin’ Dirty Water Records Hipbone Slim’s universe collides with ours every so often. On the evidence of this 40-track double CD set, it’s probably happened around 1956, 1963, 1968, 1982 and, very [...]
mattlayn Songs I Play In The Dark Independent Over the past decade, Matthew Layne has been an important figure for the Toronto and Ontario musical community, working behind the scenes, having managed Crown Lands and The Jailbirds, and, [...]
1st Base Runner Seven Years Of Silence Universal There are two ways you can approach music in dark times like these. One is to make music as dark or even darker. The other is to do completely the opposite and come up with some light, fluffy [...]
Bleachers Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night RCA Everyone has that friend, maybe even been that friend – the one who gets hooked on a song and needs you to know it. Sometimes the infatuation will pass after a few days, sometimes weeks, [...]
CHILDISH GAMBINO REIMAGINES BRITTANY HOWARD’S GRAMMY®-WINNING HIT “STAY HIGH” ATO RECORDS ATO Records has released five-time GRAMMY Award winner Childish Gambino’s resonant cover of Brittany Howard’s “Stay High.” His soulful vocals, [...]
Vivien Cooper & Bro Paul Brown The Instrumental Alphabet Moonwhistle Music Author, lyricist, poet, writer and voice actress Vivien Cooper has teamed up with musician/producer Paul Brown of The Waterboys to create a very unique and original [...]
Electric Six Streets Of Gold Cleopatra Records What have we here? An entire album of covers by Electric Six? Yes, and what a treat this is. Streets of Gold is Electric Six’s 15th studio album, and their first since 2018’s brilliant Bride Of The [...]
Piroshka Love Drips And Gathers Bella Union Bob Mould now-famously excused himself in 1993 from producing London shoegaze/dream pop band Lush’s album Split because he “kept picking the wrong girl’s songs.” The novel template of Shangri-Las/ABBA [...]
Bad Buzz For A Good Time, Call… Independent Sporting a new lineup, Toronto punk rockers Bad Buzz have returned since their 2019 studio EP, Try Harder. Following a trio of singles released in the first half of this year – “Carousel”, “A [...]
David Crosby For Free BMG Sometime this August, David Crosby will turn 80. He has practically been around throughout the entire history of rock music in all its forms. That, along with working solo, working with such iconic bands as The Byrds, [...]
Dallas Burrow Dallas Burrow Independent For some, the cowboy hat Dallas Burrow is wearing on his second, self-titled album might be the only reason to skip on it. For others, it might be exactly the reason to pick it up. In both cases, they [...]
Prince Welcome 2 America Sony The posthumous additions to the expansive discography of Prince have included a pair of massive deluxe reissues and numerous vinyl debuts, while the two unreleased collections of music – 2018’s Piano & A [...]
Debra-Jean Creelman Threshold Modern Laundry Recording Club Debra-Jean Creelman has done something very special with Threshold, her new full-length release. It is full of unique sounds and music that truly stands out among the new releases this [...]
The Fall Are You Are Missing Winner (Deluxe Reissue) Cherry Red Apologists attribute prerelease sales of Are You Are Missing Winner at gigs in 2001 for the fun fact that The Fall’s 22nd studio album was the only one after 1983 not to chart. [...]
Blutengel Erlösung: The Victory of Light Out Of Line Music German Gothic duo Blutengel, comprised of vocalists Chris Pohl and Ulrike Goldmann, have had quite a busy year thus far. Not only did they release a collection of ‘80s covers this year [...]
Dee Gees (Foo Fighters) Hail Satin Sony Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have truly reached a point where they can do no wrong – so much so, that such a sentiment feels redundant. Their latest Record Store Day release, Hail Satin sees the rock [...]
Barenaked Ladies Detour De Force Raisin’ Records Barenaked Ladies have been a consistent force since their beginnings in 1988, with the initial duet of friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page. With the current lineup of Robertson, Jim [...]
Acid Dad Take It From The Dead Greenway Records/The Reverberation Appreciation Society Following their 2018 self-titled debut, Acid Dad has returned with newly released LP Take It From the Dead, co-released by Greenway Records and The [...]
Chet Faker Hotel Surrender BMG “Music does something.” So begins Chet Faker’s opening monologue on his sophomore release Hotel Surrender. To call it his sophomore release is a bit if a misnomer – while this is technically the second Chet Faker [...]
