Elton John Diamonds Universal Music Enterprises Glitzy and emotional, Elton’s newest album Diamonds is a compilation of his greatest hits spanning an impressive, culturally significant career. To take full advantage of this easy and fun to [...]
The Dayoffs The Dayoffs Emerald & Doreen Recordings The story of how the Dayoffs came to be actually began with other artists’ work. Producers Vladimir Komarov and Atsuo Matsumoto were in a recording studio in Manhattan when they veered off [...]
Amp Fiddler Amp Dog Knights Mahogani Music Amp Dog Knights is the fourth studio album by Amp Fiddler, and it’s truly one of a kind. Recorded and produced in Detroit, Amp Dog Knights is a kind of “back to the roots” project. Joseph ‘Amp’ Fiddler [...]
The Reed Effect A Strange Curiosity Independent The Toronto psychedelic metal-rock trio The Reed Effect, featuring brothers Kirk Reed and Chris Reed, along with Bryan Fontez, bring their stink-face inducing rock to us with their new six-song EP [...]
Teen Daze Themes For A New Earth Flora Jamison Isaak (aka Teen Daze) and his newest album feel shine with a new sort of optimism. Titled Themes for a New Earth, this release is a counterpart to his last album, Themes For Dying Earth, which came [...]
Greta Van Fleet From The Fires Lava Records Having released their first studio EP, Black Smoke Rising, in April of this year, Greta Van Fleet are very well on their way to becoming one of North America’s biggest up-and-coming rock bands. The [...]
Tears For Fears Rule The World: The Greatest Hits Virgin/Universal With Halloween having come and gone, we come to be surrounded by the same tell-tale signs of the holiday season quickly approaching. The store displays, the Christmas music being [...]
Various Artists Deeplomatic Flavours Vol. 1 Deeplomatic Recordings UK record label Deeplomatic Recordings celebrate their 80th release with Deeplomatic Flavours Vol.1. It is the first in a new series of special compilation albums featuring [...]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built The Moon? Universal Music Following a two-year collaboration with renowned producer, DJ and composer David Holmes in both his Belfast and London studios, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [...]
The Flux Machine Hurricane Independent How do you mix a good cocktail that will pump you up, get you moving, jump around so that at one point you can simply drop? Usually, it means that you need at least two strong drinks, maybe even three, [...]
Strawbs The Ferryman’s Curse Witchwood/Cherry Red Records The Ferryman’s Curse is the first studio album by The Strawbs since 2014’s Prognostic. For the past three years, fans have been waiting for a new studio album, and not only has the [...]
U-Men U-Men Sub Pop Records For true fans of the Seattle Underground, this album is long overdue. The U-Men were a band unlike any other on the infamous scene that was home to the likes of Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Mad Season and [...]
Lemon Bucket Orkestra If I Had The Strength Outside Music “We start in a musty train car overlooking the fields and valleys of our youth through permanently smudged windows, reflecting on the life that once was and wondering how to face [...]
Dave Allen When The Demons Come Independent Dave Allen has released When the Demons Come, a stone cold brilliant album that absolutely should not become a tiny footnote of, in this case, Canada and Toronto’s (and even broader) music history. [...]
Ora Cogan Crickets Hand Drawn Dracula Crickets is Ora Cogan’s fifth album, and it is her best. Last year she released the remarkable Shadowland, and to me it was somewhat doubtful she would be able to top such a personal and beautiful album. The [...]
Primitive Race Soul Pretender Metropolis Records Following the shocking passing of former Faith No More, Bad Brains, and VUA vocalist, Chuck Mosley on November 9th, Primitive Race’s sophomore album, Soul Pretender, is as triumphant as it is [...]
Kansas Leftoverture Live And Beyond Inside Out Music A good live album is a difficult thing to produce. As for great live albums, there are but a handful. The Concert For Bangla Desh, The Who Live At Leeds, Viva Roxy Music are examples of great [...]
Banners Empires On Fire Island Records/Universal Music Liverpool UK singer/songwriter Banners is fascinated by dreams, life, death, hope and despair. Following his single “Start A Riot” in 2015, which has over 50 million global Spotify streams, [...]
Belle Miners Powerful Owl MGM Powerful Owl is the debut album from the Australia-based Belle Miners, a band comprised of two Canadians (Felicia Harding and Martina Avros) and one Australian (Jamie Jackett). Since starting out three years ago, [...]
21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin Without Warning Epic/Sony Music Released the day before Halloween, Metro Boomin’s collaboration album with Migo’s Offset and 21 Savage is a delight to fans of any of the three. Metro Boomin is a name stable [...]
The Used The Canyon Hopeless Records “Where is the rock music these days?” millennials ask. Well, The Used are back with their first new album since 2014, The Canyon, that touches base with all eras of rock music. They take [...]
Various Artists Stranger Things (Soundtrack From The Netflix Original Series) Legacy Recordings There are so many ways you can approach making an album out of an original soundtrack – from slap dash pile of anything that has an even remote [...]
Various Artists Stax Country Stax Records Would anyone have expected a country music album from the stalwart Southern soul label Stax? Nevertheless, while there is a history of overlap between country and soul/r&b, this release might still [...]
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights Matador Records Julien Baker’s new album Turn Out the Lights is emotionally disarming, as her talent as a songwriter/lyricist/singer makes itself known. While her debut Sprained Ankle was an all acoustic [...]
