Toronto
Track/Video: Electronic collagists Off World announce final album ‘3’ with ‘Impulse Controller’, a down-tempo improv essential.
Despite being a left-field national treasure in the Canadian contemporary scene, guitarist and producer Sandro Perri goes about things with a steady grace. An active musician for over two decades now, his nudge to wider acknowledgement began with that first solo release on Constellation in 2011, ‘Impossible Spaces’. Other acclaimed releases followed with 2018’s ‘Another …
Track: Taking post-rock further – New Age Doom & Tuvaband preview new album ‘There Is No End’ with the climactic title track.
Now here’s some news from the consistently beneficial We Are Busy Bodies to lighten up the post summer gloom. The Toronto label will be releasing the new album ‘There Is No End’ from experimental rock collective New Age Doom on 27th October. Centring around the core partnership of drummer Eric J. Breitenbach and guitarist Greg …
Track/Video : Ambient explorer Kilometre Club announces new album ‘How To Unravel’ with exquisite preview ‘Moving Mountains’.
Those sonic excavators from Toronto We Are Busy Bodies have been re-charging the electronic side of their eclectic catalogue this year with a string of impressive releases. Rich AuCoin’s ‘Synthetic Season 2’, Michael Scott Dawson’s ‘Find Yourself Lost’ plus Kristen Roos ‘Universal Syntheziser 1 &2’ have all been released through the portal and now comes …
Premiere: Zoon celebrate new album’s release with video for ‘Dodem’
You may remember we covered a couple of singles from Andrew McLeod, whose new album as Sunnsetter was released at the end of last month – if you were into that then chances are you’ll be into this also. If you didn’t know, they play drums in Zoon. the project fronted by Toronto’s Daniel Monkman. …
Album Review: Night Plow/Night Plow : a pulsating electronic offering, beat driven and sonically fresh.
Some things are just meant to happen. For proof just plug into the highly charged self-titled debut from Night Plow, available now from the venerable We Are Busy Bodies. It’s a pulsating electronic offering carved out from the partnership of bassist/beat maker Tim Lefebrve and keyboard afficionado Gregory MacDonald (aka Cola Wars), a spontaneous collaboration …
Album Review: Toronto’s Dilettante channel the eighties with an effervescent pop theatricality in their buoyant self titled debut album.
Dilettante‘s self-titled album is a shimmering collection of pure pop vignettes – leaved by a self-deprecatory sense of humour and drama (see the theatrical posturings of fifties-influenced ‘Donna’) but with a common thread of colossal, indelible melodies and mountain high anthems. Touched as all good pops songs are by hints of melancholia, the synth beds …
Track: Toronto’s perfect Housewife (fka Moscow Apartment) are back with the shimmering track ‘Patrick Bateman’.
Due to unfortunate connotations, the brilliant duo Moscow Apartment who released, in my opinion, one of the most outstanding albums of 2020, the EP ‘Better Daughter’ (reviewed by me here), have decided to change their name and reemerge as Housewife – a somewhat delicious irony given their strong feminist stance (they proudly call themselves ‘opinionated …
Track: Toronto’s Bad Waitress share a second taste of their debut album due September, hear rambunctious new single ‘Delusions of Grandeur’
Gritty, Toronto punk rock four-piece Bad Waitress have shared the second single from their riotous debut album, No Taste, out September 3rd via Royal Mountain Records. Delusions of Grandeur is as rambunctious as it is energetic and follows the release of last month’s first single Strawberry Milkshake. The band explains, “When the wrong people get …
See: Rising Toronto electro-disco outfit Tush drop visuals for the soulful ecstasy of ‘Chrysalis’ en route to their July album
TUSH; who they? You enquire, entirely within your remit. Well, if the groove is in you, they’re someone whose acquaintance you should make forthwith. Coming from the dancefloors of Toronto with a love of disco, soul, electro, Nineties’ house and more, the twin pillars of Tush are the dulcet vocal talents of Kamilah Apong and Jamie Kidd. They’ve …
Track: The enigmatic Douglas Von Irvin’s Carnival’s ‘Vampire Lovers’ is shimmering, haunting garage pop
Douglas Von Irvin’s Carnival (DVIC) (a Toronto/LA based collective) has released a shimmering and haunting new track – ‘Vampire Lovers’ – a melodic ballad infused with a melancholic delivery and a hint of gothic horror. ‘Vampire Lovers’ has elements that reflect fellow US artists like The National, Grandaddy and Band of Horses: impassioned intelligent lyrics …