The Fratellis Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied Cooking Vinyl The Fratellis’ fourth album, Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied, is easily their best to date. Each song requires at least two listens – the first to take in the new sounds, fusion of instruments, and [...]
Teen Daze Morning World Paper Bag Records Laced with crunchy guitars, tastefully used strings, and plenty of synthesizers, Morning World sounds cinematic at times, like it could soundtrack a dialogue-free film or a commercial. The newest release [...]
Lindi Ortega Faded Gloryville Last Gang Records It looks like August promises to be a scorcher, and certainly the best month of the whole summer. It promises to be glorious because our very own Canadian Tin Star, Miss Lindi Ortega, is treating [...]
Slow Death Lights Broken Spirit Desert Nightmare Independent Another fuzzed-out stepchild of hard rock and heavy metal! Toronto-based stoner rock band Slow Death Lights throws down a two-track EP that showcases their veteran ability to go with [...]
Iglomat Iglomat III KFM Records David Jack is back for Number three! The Scotlander known as David Jack is a DJ, producer and composer whose cross-continental recording project, Iglomat, throws out its 10-track release. This instrumental, post [...]
Jim Dan Dee Five Stiff Shots Independent Pass me the bourbon-fueled funkabilly grunge blues!! Hometown Toronto heroes James Stefanuk, Shawn Royal, Scott Morris and Bobby Seweryneck hammer us with some pumped-up, alt blues booty-shaking tunes on [...]
R10T Digital R10T Independent Electronic music is still in a state of rapid expansion. Artists all over the world continually grope, with knobs, cords and software, hoping to touch the limits of their domain. Eno still searches for [...]
Tame Impala Currents Modular Every so often an artist produces an album that comes from left field. Whether it’s a change in their subject matter or sound, these albums often turn out to be the ones we remember them for. The Beach Boys’ Pet [...]
Ego Likeness When the Wolves Return Metropolis Records Wolf this album down!! American darkwave /industrial rock band Ego Likeness returns with its fifth studio album featuring 12 tracks. It’s always exciting to see Steven Archer and Donna [...]
Bassnectar Into The Sun Amorphous Music Bringing back the bass in Bassnectar! Dubstep, like most genres, is an acquired taste, and can become repetitive with the usual “build up then bass drop” standard. Not so with American DJ [...]
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real The Monsanto Years Reprise Records/WEA International Inc. The golden age of protest songs came to an end in the late’60s, but the echoes of that age and the voice of a whole generation are still heard today. [...]
Roger Waters Amused To Death (Re-Issue) Columbia/Legacy In the years immediately following his estrangement from his Pink Floyd band mates, Roger Waters’ musical career took a strange turn. While asserting (in a song lyric) “This is my [...]
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 AD Kompakt The British ambient synth duo of Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann describe their latest release as based on the idea that mankind discovers its roots, as interpreted through musical harmonies, on the ancient [...]
Yukon Blonde On Blonde Dine Alone Records Once again brandishing their energetic brand of indie rock, Yukon Blonde take a head-first dive into a synth-infested ocean on their follow up to 2012’s Tiger Talk. On Blonde has all the glitz and energy [...]
Machinista Garmonbozia AnalogueTrash Records Det gäller att smida medan järnet är varmt (Translation: You have to strike while the iron is hot). Conceived in 2012, the Swedish electronic-pop duo Machinista continue to forge forward as they [...]
Glitch Mob Piece Of The Indestructible Glass Air Records With their new EP Piece of the Indestructible, The Glitch Mob has taken a route that is quite different from today’s prototypical EDM artists in the industry. Forgoing strong bass [...]
FFS FFS Domino Records Question: Could this album be a “Them Crooked Vultures” type collaborative moment that catches lightning in a bottle? FFS is an interesting rock supergroup formed by Scottish rock group Franz Ferdinand and [...]
Muse Drones Warner Brothers Records/Helium-3 Fans of The Resistance, rejoice. For it is the same gritty, full sound of that album that one can expect from Drones. Even the theme of war is similar. If Muse’s goal was to return to their [...]
Barenaked Ladies Silverball Warner Music Canada The Scarborough, Ontario pop veterans dig deep from the well again! Watching the Barenaked Ladies spitting out albums consistently since 1992 (but no Junos since 2009) is like watching 19 kids and [...]
A$Ap Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP RCA Records This was a powerhouse album to make. A$AP Rocky has long been one of my favourite rappers, and this album did nothing but further cement my beliefs. Filled to the brim with strong collaborations on all [...]
Fatboy Slim The Fatboy Slim Collection Sony Music Canada Norman Cook, ex-bassist from the Housemartins has come a long way since adopting the Fatboy Slim moniker in 1996. His early hits, “The Rockerfeller Skank” and “Praise You” are not included [...]
The Acorn Vieux Loup Paper Bag Records An Ottawa boy who cried old wolf… Rolf Klausener’s indie folk band The Acorn is back with their first release since 2010, Vieux Loup(translated as “Old Wolf” for those of you who [...]
The Pack A.D. Meta Animal Nettwerk Well, the Pack is back. This time Vancouver’s rock duo, The Pack A.D., have released a four track EP, which follows closely on the heels of last year’s Do Not Engage. The album contains a re-release [...]
VNV Nation Resonance Anachron Sounds If you’ve partied in a goth club from Atlanta to Warsaw, you’ve likely heard VNV Nation’s futurepop anthems enough to absorb the lyrics by osmosis. Ronan and Mark’s music has a ubiquitous, international [...]
