Howdy. The new album by Young Galaxy is produced by Dan Lissvik and I really like the sound. Genre: electronic/pop. Read some positive reviews and enjoy! (Version for UK listeners...
The 12-track album was written and demoed over the past three years and was produced by Roger Leavens at Boombox Sound in Toronto. A key ingredient to the creation of Birthmarks...
If Born Ruffians have slipped under your radar, it’s probably high time you pull them back out. First, though, they had to pull themselves out. Huddled (perhaps unfairly) among...
Hi. I must say that I really enjoyed the new album by The Besnard Lakes when I gave it a spin last night. Genre: dream pop. Enjoy! (Reviews here.) The Besnard Lakes – Until In...
You’d think it would be easy to write off Walk Off The Earth as some hippie folk band, but there is nothing easy about them. Although the band gained popularity after covering...
After just one EP and various touring with acts such as Digitalism, Modeselektor, Dragonette, etc. Data Romance are primed to take off with their new album Other . Part NIN, part...
Suun’s debut full-length, Zeroes QC, stood out with a volatile mélange of electronic experimentation and big-guitar rockist leanings. This time out, the Montréal group is more...
Hi there. This new album by Suuns, added for most listeners last week, is not an easy listen at times. However, I like it a lot and think it’s worth checking out. Genre...
As much as listeners strive to seek out and reward bands that are truly original, there's a sense that complaining about derivative music is an ultimately futile affair, on par...
After reissuing his debut late last year, Justin Rutledge's latest finds him reflecting on his younger self. A record exactly right for our time, and surely his best yet.
Good morning. I made it to my destination and Internet seems to be working fine. From a very recent Spotify update: the cozy new album by Woodpigeon. Read this review and enjoy...
Vancouver, Canada's Baptists lay down absolutely unrelenting, chaotic, punishing hardcore. This is the band debut album and we guarantee it will completely flatten you. Following...
Union marks the follow-up companion album to Cuff the Duke's Juno-nominated album Morning Comes . On Union , the band moved away from their usual song structures, rock solos and...
Paul Hayden Desser has been strumming his guitar, singing his sad songs, and releasing albums on his own Hardwood Records imprint for 20 years now, and his longevity is as...
A Fairway Full Of Miners comes as the follow-up to Boats' acclaimed 2010 sophomore album, Cannonballs, Cannonballs -- hailed by critics for its inventiveness and mega-watt charm...
Boats' capacity for concentration is small. The only thing they seek to dominate is the madcap universe inside their collective imagination but it's worth a visit.
Hey. I’m back and tired and many more updates will appear tomorrow. Here is the new album by singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith. Enjoy! (It should, as usual, be added for US listeners...
Another great album from the Canadian, begging the question: why is he not bigger?
It would have once been obvious to say that a band's fans made them what they were. Now there's almost something quaint about it, especially considering (and not in spite of) the...
When AP featured Tegan And Sara in last year’s Most Anticipated special, Tegan Quin said they were listening to Tom Petty, Kate Bush and ABBA while working on their seventh album...
Good evening friends. The stellar new album by Voivod was recently added to Spotify. Genre: progressive thrash metal. Enjoy! (One review here.) Voivod – Target Earth Filed under...
Happy Anniversary, Voivod! The veteran heavy metallers, formed in Canada in 1983, unleashed their debut album War and Pain in 1984 to a divided audience. Nestled cosily between...
Unstoppable, unmistakable Quebecois extreme-metal weirdos deserve the Swans Late-Period Critical Renaissance treatment.
My oft repeated criticism of bands on the pop-punk/melodic hardcore spectrum is that they do themselves an utter disservice in the studio. This is particularly true when bands...
On Pris à la Gorge, Quebecois act MilanKu craft extremely solid post-metal-type post-rock, with a couple moments during this nearly hour-long affair that elevate them from just...
The Weeknd's Trilogy is ambitious, messy, uneven and baffling but it will remain one of the most thrilling records to come out of this decade, writes Paul Bridgewater.
The chamomile warmth of Julie Doiron's voice is deceptive. Sure, her murmuring guitars and mellifluous vocals occasionally paint idyllic scenes-- "Warm from the sun and cooled by...
Modern electro-pop maestro Diamond Rings returns with his most compelling release yet. Co-produced by the Grammy nominated Damien Taylor (Bjork, The Killers, Prodigy, UNKLE, Robyn...
Be prepared for a desperate Hollywood type catching wind of John O'Regan's story and turning it into a heartwarming dram-com that you will avoid at all costs. The elevator pitch...
It all goes wrong so quickly. Diamond Rings’ (otherwise known as Canadian musician John O’Regan) sophomore album Free Dimensional opens with a wall of melodramatic synths and drum...
Since everything else is dead, we might as well declare synth pop deceased as well. It’s unclear what precipitated the current trend of shoulder-padded lunatics with hairstyles...
There's a moment midway through "Proserpina", the centerpiece of Martha Wainwright's third studio album, Come Home to Mama, where a choir takes up the refrain: "Proserpina...
Hi again. The latest album by singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright was added for most users two weeks ago. As of last week it is available for all of Europe (I just forgot to check...
"Can we pretend we're talking?" asks Martha Wainwright on her new album's standout track, 'All Your Clothes'. "I thought I could donate your clothes to a theatre / Where they...
With her third full studio album Come Home to Mama, the younger of music's most beige siblings (Wainwright is the younger sister of musician Rufus Wainwright) since Oasis...
With Animator, The Luyas explore new territory with their foray into extremely personal matters and again demonstrate their innate talent.
In the booklet accompanying the Luyas third LP, Animator, the chilling instrumental "Crimes Machine" bears an unusual songwriting credit: "The ghost wrote this one." That...
Hey. The new album by The Luyas is a very recent addition to Spotify. With this album they move away from indie pop to a more experimental/alternative pop sound and it’s all quite...
After 2008's Shots, it wasn't a sure thing that Ladyhawk were going to release another album. The Vancouver four piece was destined for cult status, haunting bars as hometown...
Weapon are an atypical band. Blackened death acts are a dime a dozen, but the really good ones are more difficult to find. Even among that elite group, the pickings get slimmer as...
When Carl Newman of the New Pornographers rebranded himself as the more authorial-sounding A.C. Newman for his first solo record, 2004's The Slow Wonder, indie's foremost creator...
A.C. Newman does two things well: the other thing, and pop music. The New Pornographers frontman's second solo record, Shut Down the Streets, is a collection of power-pop...
After a career of obliqueness and wit, A.C. Newman's Shut Down The Streets is a matter of life and death. And, master of songcraft that he is, it turns out those themes suit him...
A.C. Newman may best be known as the leader of The New Pornographers, but he has also made two much-loved solo albums. These show a more personal and intimate side to Carl's...
Hi. From a recent Spotify update comes the new album by pop singer-songwriter A.C. Newman. In case you didn’t know, he is a member of The New Pornographers. Enjoy! (Version for AU...
The New Pornographers’ frontman Carl Newman wrote Shut Down the Streets after his mother’s death and before his son’s birth, and as open and airy as these songs sound, they are...