The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme And Reason The Suffers’ self-titled debut album combines vintage soul, jazz and reggae to create a unique blend of R&B. Over the past five years, the 10-piece ensemble has been making a name for itself by [...]
Feeding Fingers Attend Sounds For Sure With 25 songs and a running time that passes the two-hour mark, Feeding Fingers latest release, Attend, seems a tad daunting. However, the diversity of the material makes the time float by. After wrapping [...]
Junior Boys Big Black Coat Geej Recording/City Slang Big Black Coat, Junior Boys’ first release in five years (and first for new label City Slang), finds them working in the comfort of their hermetically sealed bedroom R&B, littered with [...]
Past Life EP 1 Broken Circles Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t noise pollution! One of Broken Circles’ newest additions, Past Life, has released its first EP, aptly titled EP 1. Hailing from Brooklyn N.Y., these guys take the listener through a musical time [...]
Rhine An Outsider Independent Rhine’s latest full-length release, An Outsider, opens with seriously ominous sounds that will intentionally bend your mind in preparation for its impending sonic doom. The Seattle-based band has a unique brand of [...]
The Cult Hidden City Dine Alone Records As the final piece of a trilogy of work beginning with Born Into This in 2007, and reuniting with producer Bob Rock at the helm, The Cult’s Hidden City doesn’t greatly depart from their AC/DC sound that [...]
Immersion Analogue Creatures 10″ swim~ It has been a little more than 40 years since Brian Eno released his golden-ratio-obsessed avant-pop masterpiece Another Green World, and from that time till now, its influence has only grown. All [...]
Blackdog Ballroom This Is Blackdog Ballroom Independent Some albums don’t translate well into live performance with its complex layered production effects. This isn’t what Richmond Hill quartet Michael Stanfield, Mat Powers, Rob DeSimone and [...]
The Pooches Heart Attack EP Lame-O Records Geography has always served as ambivalent signifier for bands. The Strokes were compared to Television upon the release of their first record; Coldplay were categorized as Radiohead fed through a [...]
St. Lucia Matter Neon Gold Records St. Lucia’s initial success came from his 2013 hit single “Elevate,” an electronic indie-dance piece of pure pop hooks and beaming videogame-like effects. His first record When the Night was consistent in this [...]
Various Artists OWSLA Worldwide Broadcast Atlantic Records Sonny John Moore (perhaps better known as song writer, producer and DJ Skrillex) has helped release a compilation album of feverish dance tracks featuring artists such as DJ Snake and [...]
Saul Williams MartyrLoserKing Punk Rock Of Gibraltar Saul Williams pushes the boundaries on social and political commentary in MartyrLoserKing. The Electro-Hip-Hop-Punk beats creep into your pulse, engulfing his powerful spoken-word-style [...]
Seafret Tell Me It’s Real Sweet Jane Recordings/Sony Music UK British acoustic duo Seafret has been building steady momentum overseas, where their two EPs have garnered a significant UK fan base. Riding off the success of Ed Sheeran and [...]
Savages Adore Life Matador Records If Evanescence and Muse baked a cake but missed a few ingredients, it would taste like Savages sounds. Their collaboration of dark metal influence over indie pop is undoubtedly unique, but doesn’t quite fire on [...]
Ty Segall Emotional Mugger Drag City Since his 2008 solo debut, Ty Segall has proved to be one of the most prolific musicians around today, releasing a total of eight solo albums. Segall has experimented with garage rock, heavy metal, [...]
Tricky (Ft. DJ Milo & Luke Harris) Skilled Mechanics False Idols/!K7 Records Under the new handle Skilled Mechanics, Tricky once again brings us cutting-edge talent from the most unlikely corners of the music world. Tricky’s mercurial tastes [...]
Half Japanese Perfect Joyful Noise Recordings Beneath moments of mathy chaos are 13 songs that progress rather superficially. There is a profound lack of lyrical oversight on Perfect and the result is something akin to Deerhoof with brain [...]
Tindersticks The Waiting Room City Slang Ambient music is risky business. The genre’s key players tend to find themselves stuffed into film soundtracks or humbly playing in the low recesses of a dinner party. Tindersticks, however, find a medium [...]
Black Sabbath Past Lives (Reissue) Warner Music Canada With the end of Black Sabbath’s career rapidly approaching, the band strategically reissued some of their best albums including the long-out-of-print Past Lives, now released with a [...]
Panic! At The Disco Death Of A Bachelor Warner Music Canada In all of their weirdness, Panic! At the Disco have hit their stride multiple times. Since “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” had its time in the sun, the band has fluctuated throughout a [...]
Vicky Speedboat Two Years No Basement Independent More than halfway through Two Years No Basement, vocalist/guitarist Will Lindsay declares “I tend to fall in love at first sight/ two or three times a night.” Vicky Speedboat writes [...]
Peru The Band Ordinary People EP Independent Peru the Band get eclectic on their debut EP, rifling through various levels of modern blues not atypical from the likes of The Black Keys. It’s the symphony backing that truly gives life to Ordinary [...]
Coldplay A Head Full Of Dreams Parlophone/Atlantic Records Whereas Coldplay’s sixth album Ghost Stories dealt with themes of regret, wondering what might have been and promising unconditional love to those that have come and slipped away, this [...]
Jen Foote Rock Chapel Road Independent The first thing that stands out on Jen Foote’s Rock Chapel Road full length release is the superb production quality and playing that supports her wonderfully comforting voice. The producer and musician [...]
