My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Spooky Tricks Rykodisc Records I was walking down the street when the atmosphere around me suddenly shifted. Over the course of the next few minutes my reality was contorted and rearranged in a way that I [...]
Chromeo White Women Last Gang Records Chromeo have managed to put together a pretty good album, but they’re just too cool to admit it. Four years after Chromeo’s mainstream hit Business Casual, the Montreal-based duo are back with their fourth [...]
Rodrigo Amarante Cavalo Easy Sound Saudade is a Portuguese word known for being notoriously difficult to translate into English. Roughly, it comes to mean a sense of profound melancholy or longing, and it is a common element in the music of [...]
Young Magic Breathing Statues Carpark Records Electronic duo Young Magic released their second album, Breathing Statues, under Carpark Records. The band creates a collection of 10 tracks that all emit a psychedelic and surreal feel. Their tunes [...]
Lykke Li I Never Learn EMI/Atlantic The mysterious music of Lykke Li brings pleasure, pain, sadness and joy among other intense feelings. Her unique style of swooping ambient sounds with an eerily beautiful voice will stun you and have you [...]
Flash Lightnin’ For The Sinners Pheromone Recordings In a few words, Flash Lightnin’s new album, For The Sinners, kicks mammoth ass. If you go back in time to the killer four on the floor stadium rock bands of the ‘70s and ‘80s, like [...]
Damon Albarn Everyday Robots Parlophone/Warner Music Canada Damon Albarn has had a conflicted relationship with modern life for decades. As frontman for Britpop band Blur in the ‘90s, Albarn sang about the cultural homogenization that would [...]
Jerry Leger Early Riser Latent Recordings Early Riser marks Jerry Leger’s seventh album in less than 10 years and it’s clear that he’s a man on a mission to reinvigorate the Canadian Roots Rock landscape for the better. When [...]
Eels The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett E Works/Vagrant It’s hard to believe that this is Mark Everett’s eleventh album. Easy-listening and gentle, The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett is unlike his previous work and is [...]
Weaves Weaves Buzz Records It’s clear upon the first listen of their self-titled EP that Weaves have carved a compelling sound that can’t be easily pinned down. The brainchild of actor/producer/musician Morgan Waters and former Rat Tail [...]
Various Artists Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life (Tribute Album) Rhino In honour of Ronnie James Dio’s incredible music career and immeasurable influence on heavy metal and hard rock, the best of today’s metal bands congregated [...]
Tokyo Police Club Forcefield Mom + Pop It’s been four years since Canadian quartet Tokyo Police Club released their last studio-length album, and in the time since they have only continued to hone their signature pop-slash-post-punk [...]
Jessy Lanza Modcast Mix Modular Records This Hamilton, Ontario native caught my attention last September with the release of her slick, electrifying electro-R&B debut album Pull My Hair Back. Now Lanza has dropped a modcast mixtape for [...]
Jay Malinowski & The Deadcoast Martel Pirates Blend I was really excited when I heard that Jay Malinowski, the singer-songwriter and Bedouin Soundclash frontman, was releasing new music after listening to his latest project, Martel by Jay [...]
The Mary Onnetes Portico: Labrador Records The Mary Onettes have strayed. The Swedish band’s self-titled debut doubled, seamlessly, as ‘80s jangle-pop. If you didn’t know it was new, you might have gone crate digging for some dollar vinyl. Think [...]
Doomsquad Kalaboogie Hand Drawn Dracula With several similarities between them, Doomsquad has been compared to the psychedelic-pop purveyors group Prince Rama. While both sibling groups have a habit for enhancing their narrative with everyday [...]
Teenage Kicks Spoils Of Youth Rezolute Music Canada If I said that this is what I have been waiting for, I might not be very far from right. Time will be the true judge of that, but for now I feel warmth inside of a void that I didn’t [...]
USS Advanced Basics Coalition Music Advanced Basics is the fourth studio release from USS, the Markham-Stouffville-bred strum n’ bass duo Ashley Buchholz and Jason “Human Kebab” Parsons. Buchholz, songwriter/mad scientist-in-the-psych-ward [...]
Noah Gundersen Ledges Dine Alone Records After nearly two years of endless recordings and dubbing, Noah Gundersen’s debut full-length album has finally come into fruition. Self-produced, raw and emotionally driven, Ledges is a wonderful [...]
The Pack A.D. Do Not Engage Nettwerk Music Group Look down, look away. I am not responding to that. Do not engage. We all know it. It’s that vibe you send out when you don’t want to engage in conversation in public, or respond to [...]
Mogwai Rave Tapes Sub Pop Records Since they first introduced Mogwai Young Team to the world, this band has made the listening experience in itself an art form. With droning synths, creepy crescendos, and heartbeat drum thumps, Mogwai’s eighth [...]
Bonobo Flashlight EP Ninja Tune With Bonobo’s latest release Flashlight EP, we are once again graced by the subtle groovy sounds that seem to be designed to alter your state of mind and get your feet moving. Scott Green, AKA Bonobo, is one of [...]
Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like A Bell OWSLA Hundred Waters is known for its experimental sound, and is featured under genres such as electronic, alternative R ‘n’ B, and club music. The release of its second album, The Moon Rang Like a Bell, [...]
Mastodon Live At Brixton Warner Music Live At Brixton is a punishing set of pure metal mayhem that only Mastodon can deliver. Having previously seen these guys live, I’m not at all surprised by their technical perfection. Mastodon was destined [...]
