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Track: Tegan and Sara – Boyfriend
Taken from the Canadian sisters forthcoming new album Love you to Death, out on June 3rd but available on pre-order now, comes a new little shimmering pop diamond in the shape of Tegan and Sara’s new track, Boyfriend. Seventeen years after their first recordings, the girls have moved away from the woolly indie folk of …
Say Psych: Album Review, Spectral Laundromat by Shooting Guns
Every so often I hear a record which just stops me in my tracks, the sort of record that even though I’m hearing for the the first time I just have to say to myself “fuck me that’s good!”. Spectral Laundromat by Shooting Guns is one such record. Were that not enough, this album is …
Say Psych: Album Review, Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 by Shooting Guns
If ever there was an album overdue for a re-issue it’s ‘Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976’ (BTDIM), the debut from Shooting Guns, originally released in 2011, is it. In fact Captcha Records/ Cardinal Fuzz are doing just that in a fantastic double whammy for fans of the band with this and a new album …
The Provincial Archive: Bad Connection
“But Craig, isn’t rock ‘n’ roll dead ?” No. Turns out that our Edmonton heroes, The Provincial Archive, are reincarnated proof. Back as a three-piece, having said good bye to Ryan Podlubny and Nathan Burge, new single ‘Bad Connection’ finds them in fine, punching form. Singer and guitarist Craig Schram, and drummer Bramwell Park, have been …
Premiere: The Retroaction reveal new video for “Little Strange”
Its clear from listening to Hamilton, Ontario quartet The Retroaction that they’re taking on the spirit of something past, but they met in rather unexpected circumstances, vocalist Thomas Duxbury commenting “I met (drummer) Ron Lang when I went to the ending of a bachelorette party. Ron was the male stripper these girls hired. He commented …
Track: The Bandicoots – Overnight Innovator
We’re Back! claimed the email. We bowed our heads in shame that we’d not just missed the Hamilton, Ontario quartet The Bandicoots, but completely missed whatever it was they were doing before they went away. That shame ran even deeper when we listened to the band (Nicolai Kozel, Andrew Parkinson, Lorant Polya and Justin Ross, …
Tracks: Library Voices – Oh Donna, plus new album details
There was a chance that Canadian indie rockers Library Voices forthcoming third album, Lovish, might never have seen the light of day. A combination of endless touring, exhaustion, and a serious attack in the street on singer/guitarist Carl Johnson which left him with blood pooling on the front of his brain, a severe concussion, an …
See: Bob Moses reveal video for Talk, plus album and tour details
There’s something calming yet unsettling about Talk, the new single from Canadian duo Bob Moses (aka Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance). It grows out of this cross rhythm laced opening, which confuses your senses, into something that merges the melancholy of the pairs vocals with layers of echo drenched synths and guitars, over a percussive …
Track: Alvvays – Adult Diversion, plus tour dates
Taken from their acclaimed self-titled debut album, comes a new single, Adult Diversion, from Canada indie kids Alvvays. It drops, via Transgressive on June 22nd, ahead of a UK tour, the last we will see of the band across here until they’ve gone away and recorded new material. It drops straight into your lap with …
Album Review: Hayden – Hey Love
Paul Hayden Desser is a Canadian singer-songwriter with a wide ranging style (folk, grunge, pop, rock, country) that has, over the years, been refined to what is probably best described as Alternative Indie Folk. He has just released his eight album called ‘Hey Love’, a set of songs about his muse – Love. Going by …