Ty Segall Ty Rex Goner Modern-day garage rock hero Ty Segall has never been bashful about showing his roots. Listening to both his original material and his musical contributions to others’ work (most notably Mikal Cronin), it’s [...]
Enya Dark Sky Island Aigle Music/Warner Music Group Enya’s first album in seven years is a soft-spoken refusal. She refuses to ignore the pulsating melodrama she witnesses all around her. It’s always there; in every sky-scraping star, in every [...]
Conjure One Holoscenic Armada Music Rhys Fulber is legendary in the ranks of Canadian electronic music engineers, a visionary artist with a magnificent range of talent who has impacted the industrial, EBM and synthpop scenes for decades. Conjure [...]
Die Form ÷ Musique Concrète Cinema Obscura Trisol Music Group/Bain Total Cinema Obscura is a menacing oddity that harkens a return to the experimental and obscure roots of Philippe Fichot’s body of work. This new disk was strategically released [...]
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Paper Mâché Dream Balloon ATO Records King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the prolific psych-rocking Aussies, released their seventh and most versatile album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. After listening to [...]
Neil Young Blue Note Cafe Warner Music Canada/Reprise Records If you are not familiar with Neil Young’s official Archive Performance Series, this is a great time to immerse yourself in this latest offering. The live Blue Note Cafe is the [...]
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Hell Yebo Music Packaged as a sort of afterthought, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s Hell EP is a pleasant three-track offering from the New York band. The title track is ostensibly about “how [...]
PALMAS To The Valley EP Lost Colony Music On their swinging debut, Philadelphia indie band PALMAS shake and shimmy to their inventive blend of sunny Californian rock with some modern, alternative rhythm. The six-track release starts off with a [...]
Ty Dolla $ign Free TC Atlantic Records (sung to “Saved” with apologies to Ty Dolla $ign) L.A. artist Ty Griffin Hip hop and rap his callin’ After years of working with others he’s got his own thing Chorus Debut album From Ty Dolla Collaborates [...]
Kindling Galaxies No Idea On this 4-track EP, Massachusetts-based Kindling fuse the hammerhead qualities of traditional punk with the reverb-drenched ethereal quality of 90s shoe-gaze. Opening track “Blinding Wave” is undoubtedly the EP’s [...]
Library Voices Lovish Nevado Music If you’ve familiarized yourself with the typical pop melodies of Library Voices, you’ll know that their formula has proven to be fairly limited at times. Their tracks, such as “Generation Handclap”, remain [...]
Sun Club The Dongo Durango ATO Records The Sun Club describe themselves as a group of buddies from Baltimore, Maryland playing happy music. On their Facebook page they recently posted that the group was mentioned in Rolling Stone under Missy [...]
The Neighbourhood Wiped Out! Columbia Records When “Sweater Weather” hit radio two years back, The Neighbourhood’s concoction of hip-hop, pop, R&B and indie rock fueled fire to their popularity as a genre-bent band capable of producing [...]
Ian Fletcher Thornley Secrets Anthem Records/Warner Music Canada Part of being human means that we constantly grasp and sometimes desperately cling to all our secrets. We hide within them. We are defined by them. They hold us captive. If the [...]
Den Sorte Skole Indians & Cowboys Independent The global Black School goes old, old school turntablism!!! No soundscape boundaries. Trying to pigeonhole these Copenhagen-based DJs in a genre is like trying to earn the respect of an online [...]
Odium Terraform Year Of The Sun Records Delivering a punishing new album titled Terraform, Hanover, Ontario Canada’s Odium is set to crush the masses with 11 new songs. This melodic genre of death metal gives you the best of two worlds with [...]
Neon Indian VEGA INTL. Night School Mom + Pop Music Neon Indian (Alan Palomo) is a man out of time, out of place. In 2015, Palomo remains an anomaly forced to the fringe of success despite pumping out resplendent records like VEGA INTL. Night [...]
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) As If Warp Records Dance punk is an impossible genre. It simply should not exist, much the same way a smoothie should not be made of meat, or a strawberry be barbecued. Yet here we are, and there they are, the delightful !!! or [...]
Blue Rodeo Live At Massey Hall Warner Music Canada It is very good. When Canadian giant Blue Rodeo releases a new album, there is never any worry when it comes to the quality of the music. It is always great. The unfortunate part about being [...]
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You Dine Alone Records City and Colour’s brand new album, If I Should Go Before You was released earlier in October to the delight of a very loyal fanbase. The album is one that can only be described as [...]
IAMX Metanoia Metropolis Records Electronic sunshine of the insomniac mind! Creating the moniker IAMX in 2004 as a way of being true to himself and being more creatively independent with his music, Chris Corner (formerly of the Sneaker Pimps), [...]
Wavves V Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros. Surf rock/pop punk band Wavves released their fifth studio album in early October. It features 11 rendered tracks that should be added to the beach playlist you whip out every summer. V includes songs filled with [...]
Autre Ne Veut Age of Transparency Downtown Records Autre Ne Veut, a.k.a. Brooklyn singer-soulwriter Arthur Ashin, opens his third full-length record with the challenging, atonal “On and On (Reprise).” The jarring introduction to Age of [...]
Killing Joke Pylon Spinefarm Records Post-punk is a flat label that fails to encapsulate Killing Joke’s multifarious sound, and the astonishing reach they have in the alternative music industry. The recently reunited band members have been [...]
