Here to bring us some serious grooves during these bleak times is Bathurst, New Brunswick’s Francophone four-piece Ananas with their debut, 6-track release, Fausse réalité.
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Single: Mo Kenney Gives ‘Game of Pricks’ a New Face
Mo Kenney is slowing down her sound in her latest release, “Game of Pricks.” As the second single to be released ahead of her upcoming Covers album, it takes an extremely stripped-back approach to the Guided by Voices track, leaving the meaning and emotion behind the lyrics exposed and letting them breathe.
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New Music: Jacques Surette Expresses Acadian Duality on ‘Jacques Surette II’
Acadian musician Jacques Surette is digging into his Frenglish roots on his latest full-length release, Jacques Surette II. Dividing the album in half by style and language both, Surette is expressing the duality of the Acadian identity through his tracks.
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New Music: Matt Boudreau Ends the World 11 Times Over With ‘Armageddon’
Matt Boudreau’s new album Armageddon and the year 2020 have a lot in common: they both deal in endings. But while 2020 is full of more bleakness than opportunity, Armageddon leaves us with the comforting feeling that not all endings are bad, and many give way to new beginnings.
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Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion – Tyler LeBlanc’s Deep Dive Into the Acadian Deportation
Growing up as an Anglophone, Tyler LeBlanc hadn’t always known the true history of his ancestors. It wasn’t until he was in his early twenties, when asked by a historian what he knew about his lineage, that LeBlanc began to seriously dig into his ancestry and question the stories he had grown up believing. What he discovered set into motion years of research.
Providing a unique, more personal perspective to the Acadian Expulsion, LeBlanc dives deep into his ancestral history in his latest book, Acadian Driftwood. Following the interconnected but separate stories of a number of LeBlanc’s distant relatives, Acadian Driftwood wraps readers in the severity of Acadian suffering and the strength of the Acadian soul.
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