Klô Pelgag has released long awaited record Abracadabra, out now. As a final teaser for the album, Klô Pelgag debuted ‘Le goût des mangues’ which premiered via the magazine Elle Québec, having just returned from Paris, where she launched her new album during an exclusive event for her fans. About her latest song, Klô whispers enigmatically that “the season is a weapon we must know how to fear.” The song...
Toronto rapper Shad and Michigan based producer 14KT have surprised everyone by dropping a brand-new EP showcasing their recent collaboration. Reel Speakers, a four-track EP stemming from freestyles Shad did on socials, is a compact, high-energy listening with beat, grit, soul, and hope. It is out now on all streaming platforms. The pair, having met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic Playlist Retreat years prior, connected over freestyles Shad was doing...
Basia Bulat announces her new album Basia’s Palace – co-produced by frequent collaborator Mark Lawson, and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine – will be released on February 21, 2025. As well as sharing the glistening lead single ‘Baby’, an elegant dance-inflected track augmented by strings courtesy of GRAMMY-nominated arranger Drew Jurecka. The track showcases the stunning, silvery voice of three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee...
Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’, a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron. His new album Revelation is out September 27th. “This is the ‘evening version’ of ‘Peace of Mind’,” says Leif. “This version isn’t even on the record. It just wanted to be its own thing… I suppose I wanted it to remind me of the bliss I feel when a great song come on the radio on...
Two years after the release of his record Dungeon Master, former pro snowboarder reborn nomadic psych-pop prophet Gus Englehorn announces brand new album The Hornbook, due for release January 31st. Today he shares a first glimpse of the new record with the nervy post-punk propulsion of a track that is ‘Thyme’. “This song is about someone who travels back in time to Scarborough fair,” Gus says. “A song about yearning...
Singer-songwriter Klô Pelgag unveils her ode to lasting love with new single ‘Sans visage’, which appears on her album Abracadabra, out 11th October, and is accompanied by a lyric video directed by Laurence BAZ Morais. Watch below! “Abracadabra is a quest for the absolute, a desire to still believe in something. For all the knots we must untie in order to appear as we really are, without fear or embarrassment,”...
Flore Laurentienne announces an expanded edition of the outfit’s 2024 album 8 tableaux, out September 13th. Flore Laurentienne also shares a brand-new track entitled ‘Les oies III’, which premiered last Sunday on KEXP’s show Pacific Notions. Watch Flore Laurentienne perform a special KEXP session from last fall below! The digital deluxe edition of 8 tableaux features four new songs, each expanding on Gagnon’s method of transmuting visual art into musical...
Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Southern Star’ a poignant ballad as second single, including backing vocals by Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon and steel guitar by legendary Cindy Cashdollar. Watch the accompanying video, directed by longtime collaborator and award-winning filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian, below! “I think this might be my favourite song I have ever written, and it took a while to reveal itself,” says Leif. “I spent about two years waiting for the last verse to come. It was recorded in one...
Patrick Watson is thrilled to share ‘Ode to Vivian (Rework)’ a brand-new version of the song that first appeared on his album Better in the Shade. ‘Ode to Vivian’ has been a fan favourite for creating content on TikTok and Instagram since its release last April. The song is inspired by one of Patrick’s heroes, the late American street photographer Vivian Maier. “She manages to catch just wonderful, unbelievable little moments that in the end are...
Patrick Watson’s critically acclaimed album Better in the Shade will be available everywhere in LP and CD formats October 7. The singer-songwriter also shares a brand-new video for the single ‘Height of the Feeling’ featuring La Force. Watch below! Director, Arizona O’Neill reveals ”after two years of feeling isolated during the pandemic…we wanted to make a video that reflected how jarring it is to return to social activities. In the black and white sections of the video, Patrick and La Force are singing while standing...
Friday June 3rd, 2022 – Two months after the release of the critically acclaimed SOLO album, Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack is thrilled to share three filmed live sessions. The videos were filmed at Le Livart in Montreal and are directed by Félix-Antoine Boutin & Thomas Leblanc-Murray. “Watching these songs come alive was a good buzz. It was easy and felt very natural”, reveals Jesse. “Surrounded by such...
After a run of deliriously off-kilter singles, Montreal’s singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn has released his sophomore album Dungeon Master. Dungeon Master, Englehorn’s Secret City Records debut, is an outsider opus that sparkles with Dada spirit — a playful juxtaposition of isolation, alienation and mildish OCD. Surprising, paranoid, and studded with synths and strings, Dungeon Master is deeper than a cellar and blunter than a club — a shivering introduction to an artist who’s finally arrived. “I let my subconscious do...
Patrick Watson releases his seventh full-length studio album. The CD and a limited-edition coloured vinyl will be released later this year and available for pre-order here. Along with the release, Watson has also shared a stop-motion music video for the title track. Watch below! In Patrick’s words, Better in the Shade “is about negotiating a world where you don’t know what’s real anymore.” “I was very inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia...
Patrick Watson is thrilled to announce Better in the Shade, his seventh full-length studio album, set for digital release on April 22 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records worldwide. The news is accompanied by the first single ‘Height of the Feeling’, which Patrick reveals “is about using intimacy as a compass when you feel out of your skin”. As he describes, “I sometimes just have trouble without affection to ground me. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, it just...
Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack has shared his new single ‘NHFN,’ from his upcoming album SOLO. SOLO will be released on April 8th on Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. Losing freedom and privileges made me realize how great and important they were”, describes Mac Cormack. “Going through a hard time in a relationship and looking forward to happiness gave me purpose. It really helped me find what nourished me and made me stronger. Everything wasn’t about passion anymore. I started thinking, taking good...
Montreal singer-songwriter, and official SXSW 2022 artist, Gus Englehorn is set to release his sophomore album Dungeon Master on April 29 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. It’s undoubtedly the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year — perhaps best demonstrated by new chapped and pleading single & video, ‘Exercise Your Demons.’ Beginning with Englehorn begging, “Hit me, I want you to hit me,” from there it explodes into a headbanging path to salvation anchored by Englehorn and partner Estée Preda’s gnashing guitar...
