The Radio Dept. Running Out Of Love Labrador Records For some time now Swedish indie-rockers, The Radio Dept. have been a staple in the provocative lo-fi dream-pop game. Their latest, Running Out Of Love, is true to from but provides a new [...]
Crystal Fighters Everything Is My Family Zirkulo/PIAS/Atlantic Records The third studio album from pop party band Crystal Fighters is Everything Is My Family. A truly international band, Crystal Fighters is composed of Sebastian “Bast” Pringle [...]
Hooton Tennis Club Big Box Of Chocolates Heavenly Recordings Chris X hears a Hooton! To be honest, the title of the album didn’t grab me (enter obvious Forrest Gump reference here), considering this group’s penchant for long song titles off [...]
Crystal Shawanda Fish Out Of Water Newsun Records Crystal Shawanda considered herself a Country-music outsider based on her eclectic sound and style, which fuses Blues with traditional Country sensibilities. In her latest album, Fish Out of [...]
Gord Downie The Secret Path Arts & Crafts The Secret Path dares to become a wide and open road, an artistic plea of a dying man for change and reconciliation of a nation. This is the fifth studio effort by the Tragically Hip singer Gord [...]
Mono Requiem For Hell Temporary Residence For its ninth release, Mono reconnected with an old friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. The result? An uneasy listening experience; uneasy as the music is varied and different. Militaristic drumming [...]
His Clancyness Isolation Culture Hand Drawn Dracula / Maple Death Records His Clancyness’s forthcoming art-pop LP Isolation Culture provides an uplifting effervescence and groovy weightlessness that leaves you head-bopping and smirking as you [...]
The Alpacas The Best Is Behind You Independent The Best Is Behind You is a reflection of life as a young adult. Living as a 20- or 30-year-old may sound like it’s fun and games, but in between that there’s a lot more to it. There are a lot of [...]
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 [...]
