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 [...]
Electric Six Bitch, Don’t Let Me Die! Metropolis Records Electric Six summons clichés like Taylor Swift summons gal pals to participate in her latest video shoot. Frontman Dick Valentine might have been a carny in a past life; his [...]
Rome Anthology 2005-2015 Trisol Music Group If Jérôme Reuter is two things and two things only, they are these: political and reflective. The leader of Rome (not to be confused with Caesar, Nero, Caligula, et al) is known for outspokenness on [...]
Peaches Rub I U She Music Are there no nice Canadian Jewish girls out there? Merrill Beth Nisker a.k.a. Peaches does her best to explode this stereotype with her sexually-charged themes and lyrics. And what the hell is Feist of “1234” fame [...]
Windhand Grief’s Infernal Flower Relapse Records As the sounds of a crackling bonfire introduce Windhand’s stunning new album, the band delivers the goods precisely at the 32-second mark, showcasing first-rate songwriting, studio [...]
Metric Pagans In Vegas Crystal Math Music Metric’s sixth studio album sounds very modern and fresh, staying true to the band’s goal of capturing “the romance of another time without falling into nostalgia.” They certainly achieved that goal with [...]
Diana Panton I Believe in Little Things eOne Music Juno Award-winning vocalist Diana Panton delivers again, bringing her childlike, sensitive voice to 15 classic songs geared toward bringing jazz to the whole family. Backed by her team of [...]
Battles La Di Da Di Warp Records Preamble: I don’t really know what to expect since this is my first time visiting a restaurant run by renowned chef collective “Battles”. I mean, I grabbed ice cream at Gloss Drop once a few years back, but that [...]
Duran Duran Paper Gods Warner Bros. Paper Gods does not disappoint. Released Sept. 11, Duran Duran’s 14th studio album since 1981 stays true to the band’s legacy while injecting a fresh flavour. The Fab Five, as they were known when they ruled [...]
Lakes Of Canada Transgressions Independent Remembering Kathleen Smith. Forged from the tragic death of Jake Smith’s mother Kathleen Smith in 2010, Montreal’s Lakes of Canada craft their second progressive / pop / folk / gospel [...]
Painted Palms Horizons Polyvinyl Records The San Fran cousins are back, with more instrumental layerings than you could shake a synth at! Reese Donahue and Christopher Prudhomme are the architects of this 10-track release, having created the [...]
