Bedouin Soundclash front-man Jay Malinowski is slated to make his debut as a solo artist with a 13-song LP next Tuesday. ”Bright Lights and Bruises” will be Malinowski’s first musical endeavor sans Soundclash bassist, and writing partner, Eon Sinclair since the two met in University eight years ago. While Malinowski’s vocals will remind of the Juno-winning [...]
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Canadian alt-country balladeers NQ Arbuckle teamed up with singer-songwriter Carolyn Mark this past year for a collaborative release. The result was the full-length “Let’s Just Stay Here”, released through Vancouver’s Mint Records mid-October. The album marks the first release from NQ Arbuckle since their 2008 Juno-nominated released XOK, and the first from Carolyn Mark since [...]
It’s likely a fair presumption to say that most casual Woodhands‘ fans know of the band through I wasn’t Made For Fighting, Dancer, or to a lesser extent their newest single CP24. All three of these songs feature what makes Woodhands so alluring: a hard synth beat, a raucous drum performance from Paul Banwatt, and [...]
Dirty, grungy, distorted, overexposed, and even skanky, are all words that feel right when describing Makeout Videotape’s turn on the Harry Nilsson classic I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York. The cassette-sounding rendition can be found on the Vancouver lo-fi/garage-rock duo’s limited-release EP “Heat Wave!”, which appears to be the only release-proper from the band [...]
Polaris Prize winner/mathematician/artist formerly known as Manitoba/Canadian indie-electronic act CaribouCaribou reviews is back with a new album for 2010. Slated for an April 20th North American release and an April 19th UK release, SwimSwim reviews will mark Caribou’s first full-length effort since the critically acclaimed 2007 album AndorraAndorra reviews; Andorra beat out albums from Canadian [...]
Vancouver indie-rock/pop ensemble The Zolas are back with another deceptively infectous track from their 2009 debut album “Tic Toc Tic”. Produced by Howard Redekopp (notable for producing albums from Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, and Mother MotherMother Mother reviews), Tic Toc Tic does well in delivering a three-piece band wrapped in a full-stage sound; [...]
The title-track from Noah and the Whale’s 2009 LP The First Days of SpringThe First Days of Spring reviews opens with the line “It’s the first day of spring and my life is starting over again”, and immediately sets the melancholic tone for the remainder of the album. The release, which is the band’s sophomore [...]
Gavin Gardiner of The Wooden Sky has piles of perfectly-formed melodies scattered around his home, I’m convinced of it. Every song I hear from the Toronto indie/folk-rock ensemble finds a way to lodge itself into my brain and gently gnaw, relenting only after I perform it for friends from my couch. The Late King Henry [...]
With the exception of sex and drugs, there are few things more satisfying than a well executed key-change. Doin’, from Canadian Chris Adeney’s indie/folk/progressive-rock project Wax Mannequin, features one such key-change; unless completely dead inside, listeners should experience a moment of head-bobbing. The song can be found on Wax Mannequin’s fifth-full length effort “Saxon”, released [...]
The droning guitars, the The Beach Boys-channeling harmonies, Olga Goreas vocal delivery, and the build to a wall of sound that would make My Bloody Valentine proud, all come together in stunning fashion for The Besnard Lakes. Albatross can be found on the bands forthcoming 2010 album The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, scheduled [...]
The west-coast trio of Ashleigh Ball, David Beckingham, and David Vertesi (otherwise known as Hey Ocean!) released their sophomore LP “It’s Easier To Be Somebody Else” in September of 2008. The album, described by the band as “funked up party-pop”, follows-up on the group’s 2006 debut effort “Stop Looking Like Music”‘; today’s song Fish can [...]
Defiant to the bitter end, Hayden delivers a fine piece of scorned indie/folk love-rock with Let’s Break Up. Found on Paul Hayden Desser’s 2009 full-length release The Place Where We Lived, the song offers a number of lines that should be immediately written down for use if ever on the shittier side of a break-up. Like [...]
2009 brought the debut album from Rich Terfry (the man behind the Buck 65 moniker) and his newest collaborator, Belgian producer Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. The electronic/hip-hop project, known as Bike for Three!, released More Heart Than Brains this past summer to almost exclusive acclaim. Today’s song is not from that album, nor is it [...]
Really fantastic song up today from the Kelowna, British Columbia progressive indie-rock trio We Are The City. Originally formed in 2006 under the name “Seraph”, the band changed their name to “The City” in 2007, and then added the all important “We Are” in May of 2008. Consisting of Cayne McKenzie on vocals and keys, [...]
Up tonight is another haunting installment from Calgary’s favorite indie/experimental-rock artist Chad VanGaalen. VanGaalen demonstrates his talent as an animator/illustrator with the video that accompanies Molten Light, and allows us to be pleasantly horrified both visually and sonically. The song itself can be found on VanGaalen’s 3rd full-length effort Soft Airplane, released in September of 2008 [...]
Toronto-based indie-poppers Ohbijou delivered their long-awaited (I suppose it was only 3 years) sophomore album “Beacons” this past year, following-up on their 2006 debut release “Swift Feet for Troubling Times”. Make It Gold can be found in the oft-controversial #9 position on the album, and is gorgeous number that begins by feeling almost underscored (by [...]
Owen Pallett’s highly anticipated follow-up to He Poos CloudsHe Poos Clouds reviews found it’s way onto shelves last week (January 12th). Across Canada, fans finally began their journey through Pallett’s conjured-up world of Spectrum, with help from the album’s narrator Lewis; HeartlandHeartland reviews is a concept album narrated by a farmer named Lewis as he comes [...]
Up today is another fantastic track from the Toronto-based indie-rock/pop ensemble The Ghost Is Dancing. Battles On can be found on the band’s defiant 2009 effort of the same name, released on April 28th of last year. The album follows-up on the group’s 2007 debut LP “The Darkest Spark”, a self-titled 2006 EP, and a [...]
Today’s song comes in from Toronto-based singer/songwriter/producer Royal Wood and his second full-length album A Good Enough Day, released via Canadian Dead Daisy Records in 2007. The album follows-up on Wood’s 2004 debut LP Tall Tales, and has since been followed-up by a 2009 EP titled The Lost and Found EP. This past November, Wood supported [...]
Here’s a fun little activity for everyone: The next time you have nothing to do, grab the blankets off your bed, throw them across your couch/coffee table creating a fort of sorts, shut off every light in your house/apartment, climb in with a flashlight, and listen to the new Timber Timbre album; friends of mine [...]
