Real Numbers Wordless Wonder Slumberland Records Bad day? Real Number’s first full length album Wordless Wonder will try to pick you up out of your slump. The garage pop quartet provides a lighthearted and quirky ten songs that sound like they [...]
Terry Malts Lost At The Party Slumberland Recordings The third album coming from Terry Malts, Lost at the Party is rich, explosive and buoyant that will keep your feet moving. Notable of the Terry Malts sound, his punk backbone is certainly not [...]
Jamie Lidell Building A Beginning Jajulin Records After 20 years making music as an enigmatic talent, Jamie Lidell once again reset the script on his music with Building a Beginning. Produced under his own label imprint, Jajulin Records, Lidell [...]
Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow Parlophone Records Four years after the release of their second album, Beacon, and three years after the release of the Changing of the Seasons EP, Irish alt-Rock trio Two Door Cinema Club has finally delivered on [...]
Mick Thomas These Are The Songs: A Mick Thomas Retrospective Liberation Music When I attended University of Ottawa, I had a radio show, every Saturday night, midnight to six, on the University station. If you tuned in, you were guaranteed a [...]
Green Day Revolution Radio Warner Music Group While not as revolutionary as American Idiot, Green Day’s twelfth studio album, Revolutionary Radio, gives us a familiar sound to the 2004 album that’s rather nostalgic. Is it perhaps too familiar? [...]
Army Of The Universe 1999 & The Aftershow Metropolis Records Throughout listening to this album I was excited, entertained and confused. Army of the Universe’s newest release 1999 & The Aftershow sounds like a mashup of many greats from [...]
Mavrick Atlantis Universal Music Mavrick’s Atlantis is a melodically interesting album because of how simple and clean it is. There isn’t anything too messy or noisy in it, but that being said, simple doesn’t mean boring. It’s raw, emotional, [...]
Phantogram Three Republic Records Three, the aptly named third record from New York-based dreampop outfit Phantogram, sees more of the signature distorted, grimy, tension filled sounds that anyone familiar with their material would recognize, [...]
Phish Big Boat Jemp For many, the term “Jam Band” is intimidating. It conjures up images of four-hour concerts, 15-minute guitar solos and songs overstuffed with every conceivable instrument. Thanks to that mentality Phish, perennial leaders of [...]
The Lion And The Wolf The Cardiac Hotel Xtra Mile Recordings The Lion & the Wolf joined up with Xtra Mile Recordings for the second album by British singer and songwriter Thomas George. The Cardiac Hotel delivers more of the smooth Indie [...]
Placebo A Place For Us To Dream Elevator Lady Ltd A Place For Us To Dream is a fresh look back at 20 years of Placebo over 36 songs on two CDs or, if you have money to burn, a four-vinyl box set. Since this is a retrospective album, I’m going to [...]
Bridges And Powerlines National Fantasy Devise Records One of Brooklyn’s favourite Indie-Pop groups returns after two years in the studio, with its newest LP, National Fantasy. Bridges and Powerlines is a new-comer to the New York music scene, [...]
Greys Warm Shadow Carpark Records/Buzz Records Greys swiftly re-emerges with Warm Shadow, the surprise sister album to its acclaimed sophomore release Outer Heaven. The Toronto-based quartet has graced fans with an instrumental-heavy companion [...]
Lindy Vopnfjörd Frozen In Time Independent For his sixth full-length record, singer-songwriter Lindy Vopnfjörd takes his listeners on a tour of introspection with an instrumentally sparse and lyrically potent album. The record veers away from [...]
Temple Of The Dog 25th Anniversary Temple Of The Dog Digital Deluxe Edition A&M Records Temple of the Dog’s self-titled one-off album – an album that Rolling Stone believes “deserves immortality” – is turning 25 next month. To mark the [...]
The Wytches All Your Happy Life Heavenly Recordings In All Your Happy Life, England native The Wytches flies through 13 songs of swirling Garage Rock tones, with a ringing aftertaste of Shoegaze. Released September 30 from Heavenly Recordings, [...]
Yellowcard Yellowcard Hopeless Records Walking off into the sunset… If you’ve consumed enough music genres through whatever means you have, then Yellowcard is a name that some audiophiles immediately recognize, and after almost 20 years of [...]
Blonde Redhead Masculin Féminin 4AD You may not realize it, but Blonde Redhead’s been making music since 1993. Check that. Let’s do that first sentence over again. You may not know it or you may have forgotten but Blonde Redhead’s still a band. [...]
La Sera Queens EP Polyvinyl Records Somewhere in between touring in support of its album Music For Listening to Music To (which I reviewed just this past March HERE), La Sera found the time to record its latest EP, Queens. A longtime fan of Katy [...]
Lisa LeBlanc Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? Bon Sound Lisa LeBlanc is the friend who gives you honest advice about dealing with your lame boyfriend and talking about life, but instead of over drinks, she’s dedicated an entire album. She’s [...]
Delerium Mythologie Metropolis Records Full of beautifully ethereal melodies and transitional soundscapes, Delerium is back with its 15th studio album, Mythologie. Since Delerium’s founding in 1987, music pioneers Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have [...]
Beach Slang A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings Polyvinyl Records In the short time since the release of their 2015 full-length debut, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, Beach Slang has kept busy. They’ve toured extensively, nearly [...]
Beware Of Darkness Are You Real? Bright Antenna Records Aiming to revitalize the Alternative Rock scene and remind fans of what they love about the genre, Beware of Darkness is back with its latest album Are You Real? Fans of its 2013 debut [...]
