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...
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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...
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Nearly three years after the release of his critically acclaimed EP Aurora, Brazilian-Canadian singer-songwriter Fernie returns with a new single titled ‘Pain.’ His first official release via Secret City / Remote Control Records, this song was produced in collaboration with Montreal artist Patrick Watson. “Ultimately this song is about the universal feeling of emptiness. From my experience surrounding the idea of pain… it blinds you. Aside from love, pain is one of the most powerful feelings on earth....
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Bibi Club, the duo consisting of Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque, share their new single ‘Parc de Beauvoir,’ which was written in London during a tour. Premiering on Brooklyn Vegan, this is the first English single from the album Feu de garde, which will be released May 10th. The duo explains what inspired the writing of this song, saying “We were in a contemplative, exhausted state as our kid was playing in the park. Parc de Beauvoir is an ode...
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Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – shares his new record, Motewolonuwok (Muh-del-wool-en-oo-wug). Motewolonuwok heaves with dynamic orchestration and the inherent drama of grand piano, recalling a long line of artists who have turned the classical establishment on its head to deliver compositions that are doubly ecstatic and modern. Stream / Purchase Motewolonuwok here.
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Emilie Kahn unveils Maybe, her third album that will be available in digital format on October 20. The album is at once laid-back and feverish, with a pop energy that recalls Arlo Parks, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, and Kahn’s viral affection for Taylor Swift. Kahn is also sharing a second single off the new album — ‘Parallel’ — as well as the accompanying video. “I had just met someone with whom I felt a deep connection, and I envisioned...
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La Force, the mesmerizing solo project from Ariel Engle, unveils her sophomore full length XO SKELETON out now. XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album was coproduced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals). “The theme of the album revealed itself in the making,” she explains, recalling how the title track is...
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La Force, the mesmerising solo project from Ariel Engle, unveils today a poignant third single and video titled ‘how do you love a man’. This brand-new offering is “a swan song to a dead a man”, where La Force questions love beyond the grave. XO SKELETON the sophomore full length album will be out September 29th. Pre-order / Pre-save XO SKELETON: here.
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Emilie Kahn is thrilled to share a brand-new song and video titled ‘Search History.’ This is Emilie’s first new material since the release of ‘Gemini’. Fans on socials will be excited to finally hear this recording in full, since the audio was teased on platforms earlier this summer. A whopping 4.5 million views on creation featuring the ‘Search History’ snippet has been counted on TikTok and it keeps on climbing. Stream / Download ‘Search History’ here.
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Today, Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – shares ‘Take My Hand’ a poignant third single off his new record, Motewolonuwok (Muh-del-wool-en-oo-wug), to be released October 6th. ‘Take My Hand’ is another offering from Jeremy sung in English – with lyrics written by Basia Bulat – and embraces the legacy and power of the intemporal love song as a piano ballad. Pre-Order / Pre-Save Motewolonuwok here.
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La Force, the mesmerizing solo project of Ariel Engle, who has spent more than a decade as one of Canada’s most sought-after musical collaborators shares ‘october,’ the second single off her forthcoming album XO SKELETON out September 29. ‘october’ brings warmth to the XO SKELETON album – a lush, intimate song with incredible vocals embracing soul, smooth jazz and r&b – all the while reminding some of the “quiet storm” movement from the 90s. Pre-order / Pre-save XO SKELETON here.
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Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – announces his sophomore record, Motewolonuwok, to be released October 6th, with new single ‘Ancestors Too Young.’ The Motewolonuwok album inspiration began with a poem by Cherokee writer Qwo-li Driskill. A singular story of a two-spirit kin who was taken too soon. Jeremy sings in Wolastoqey — his native tongue, considered an endangered language — anchoring his work while he continues to reimagine the song traditions...
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XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album, co-produced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), will be available everywhere in digital and LP format on September 29 via Remote Control Records. Available as of today is the first single and opening track ‘condition of us’, the portrait of adoration, a love-affair...
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Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada. Dutcher’s 2018 debut — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — vaulted him into the upper echelons of Canadian performance, from the Polaris and Juno Award stages to the judges’ panel on Canada’s Drag Race. Dutcher — a classically trained opera tenor and pianist that has been singing the songs of his ancestors since he was a child — returns with his first new solo work since...
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A freer and wholly anew effort, Euphoric Recall finds Braids abandoning strategy, burning it down, and realizing their love. Love, all of it; the unbound bliss, the budding impulses, and the messy imperfections, a supernova swirled up in a suite of bold, melodic, symphonic pop songs surrendered to the present. Standell-Preston’s lyrics draw generously from her heart space, often writing on the spot, in just a few takes. Lines are vivid, exhilarating, and evocative, a...
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Canadian art rock band Braids release their new single ‘Apple,’ the latest peek at their forthcoming album Euphoric Recall out April 28th. Among the most joyous moments in the Braids discography, ‘Apple’ is a bubbling anthem of symphonic shoegaze, a celebration of seeing new possibilities in the eyes of a lover, acknowledging past loss with a new state of heart that’s been opened and filled. Singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston sings of...
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