Dooms Children Dooms Children Dine Alone Records Wade MacNeil’s post-Alexisonfire creative output continues to demonstrate a wide range of performance and songwriting. Following the release of his original score for the 2020 slasher film Random [...]
The Charlatans A Head Full Of Ideas Then Recordings/Republic Of Music To mark 30 years of making records since their inception in England’s West Midlands, The Charlatans have released A Head Full of Ideas. Their third singles compilation [...]
Jon Batiste We Are (The Deluxe Edition) Universal Music Having struck gold earlier this year with the release of We Are, a modern masterpiece of pop, soul, gospel, and jazz by any metric, Jon Batiste has released an expanded edition of the [...]
Al Stewart Time Passages (Limited Edition Box Set) Esoteric Recordings Last year Esoteric Records, with help from Al Stewart, released the 45th anniversary edition of Year Of The Cat. It only makes sense that his follow-up, Time Passages, [...]
The Beatles Let It Be (Super Deluxe) Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music The history of Let It Be is a long and somewhat complicated story. Paul McCartney proposed that The Beatles return to their roots and become a strong four-piece unit once [...]
GLENN ECHO FIXED MEMORY INDEPENDENT Six years to come up with a debut album? You either had a hard time making your music, or you are painstakingly taking your time, taking a hard look (and listen) to every chord in your music and word in your [...]
Robin Guthrie Mockingbird Love Soleil Après Minuit The Cocteau Twins called it a day in 1997, since then, Robin Guthrie has been very busy carving out his own distinct solo career. Mockingbird Love is his latest EP and it is quite glorious. It [...]
Coldplay Music Of The Spheres Warner Music When looking at music that takes us to a place among the stars and planets, there is a certain mystery, splendor, and allure that comes with it. When looking at Coldplay’s latest album, Music Of [...]
Grant Pavol Reflections Accidental Popstar Records The psych-folk label these days has been stamped on almost anything that falls out of the ‘regular’ mellower or singer songwriter music as very defined genres. Based on his three [...]
Louise Aubrie Antonio Carrot Bone Records If you think that the cover of Louise Aubrie’s fifth album Antonio looks like the cover of Pet Shop Boys’ album Actually, you’d be perfectly right. That is exactly what Aubrey is paying [...]
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood Fearless Records If there’s one thing Ice Nine Kills fans know, it’s that the band consists of visionary trailblazers and gifted multimedia storytellers, who have crafted to perfection [...]
Gemini Syndrome 3rd Degree – The Raising Century Media Records L.A. alternative metal band Gemini Syndrome has just released the long-awaited final chapter of their debut trilogy of albums, 3rd Degree – The Raising. The first two albums, 2013’s [...]
The Consecutives Vol. 2 Independent Instrumental funk band The Consecutives have returned with their sophomore EP, Vol. 2. The release follows their 2019 debut, Vol. 1. In tone with starts of the instrumental funk scene from the last two decades [...]
Reb Fountain IRIS Flying Nun For decades now, it has become quite a common occurrence that an artist from New Zealand comes up with the musical goods. From Split Enz, across The Chills and The Clean to most currently Lorde, Aldous Harding and [...]
John Southworth Rialto Tin Angel Records For some 20 odd years or so, from his opening salvo Mars’ Pennsylvania John Southworth has so far never made anything that would be less than very good. And since his last three albums-only efforts [...]
Yes The Quest Inside Out Music In the early 1970s, Yes, along with such bands as Gentle Giant, Genesis and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, helped create prog rock. They wore the name proudly, as they should, and over the years have produced some of [...]
audiobooks Astro Tough Heavenly Recordings You’re at the wrong listening party if you’re anticipating London duo audiobooks will deliver songs with comprehensive narratives and linear structure. On Astro Tough, the languid reference points [...]
Erin Alissa Restless Independent Finding your place among notable singer songwriters working within the Americana/country pop genre can get harder day by day, particularly when artists like Kasey Musgraves have set the standard bar so high. You [...]
Cashavelly Morrison Metamorphosis Independent Artists often have a hit and miss affairs when they name their releases. Very few hit a title that truly explains the music contained in the grooves, or stream bits, if you will. In a way, North [...]
Maria Elena Silva Eros Big Ego Records Chris Schlarb, who produced, mixed and plays guitar on Eros, describes Maria Elena Silva’s debut album for his Big Ego Records label as “a delicate art-pop record with an improvisational-jazz [...]
Goodbye Honolulu Goodbye Honolulu Independent Toronto-based band Goodbye Honolulu has been together for a long time, honing its skills in local bars and curating its own concerts and festivals for several years. With that groundwork laid and the [...]
Ducks Ltd. Modern Fiction Royal Mountain Records Ducks Ltd., or Toronto duo Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis, seem to be connecting dots across the globe with their latest album Modern Fiction, from Toronto, to Bristol, and from England to Dunedin, [...]
Stone Cold Crows Original Sin Pt. I Independent Perhaps the coolest musical project to emerge out of Ontario over the last year is Stone Cold Crows, from vocalist and guitarist Mitch Cuming and drummer Bryson Emmons. The two have released a [...]
Various Artists The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live At The Apollo Daptone Records The discussion of neo-soul and funk is incomplete without Daptone Records. The label has proven to be invaluable to furthering the genre for nearly 20 years. With a [...]
