Let’s call it a breakout album. The word ‘debut’ just doesn’t cut it for David In The Dark’s first full album,‘Fire’; it’s not sauntering about the room in an evening gown, it’s kicking down the doors . Continue reading New Music: David In The Dark Release ‘Fire’
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New Music: Walrus’ ‘Goodbye Something’
Defining Walrus simply as ‘Psychedelic Pop’ seems an embarrassing understatement. With ‘Goodbye Something’, the band has shown that they cannot be pinned down or categorized inside the general umbrella of psychedelia. The EP boasts an impressive range of sounds that draw from hard driving classic rock solos, hazy surf rock infused lyrics: an effortless trance-like repetition blended with the chaos of drug-induced frenzy. ‘Pop’ doesn’t quite capture the eclectic blend of sound that the four piece Halifax gems have created, but then again, is there any combination of words that could? Continue reading New Music: Walrus’ ‘Goodbye Something’
Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump
It’s been ten months. Ten everlasting months since Donald Trump first announced his campaign for the American Presidency, and worst of all, the bastard might actually win. He’s used fear, and racism, and misogyny to build a platform from which he can march across America’s collective id clear to the finish line. But it wasn’t ten months ago that we reached any sort of tipping point that set off this chain of events, or seventy years ago. It wasn’t two hundred years, or even two hundred thousand. We weren’t playing chicken with any ledge. We got here step by step, on our long journey back into the sea. We’ve been doomed from the beginning, but as some consolation we have the beauty of Wintersleep’s new video for ‘Amerika’ to remind us of our bittersweet impermanence. Continue reading Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump
The Town Heroes Strip Down
Mike Ryan and Bruce Gillis are known as The Town Heroes for good reason: they manage to make an awful lot of sound for just the two of them, spreading laughter and shenanigans wherever they go. That being said, when the occasion calls for it, they can bust out an acoustic rendition that’ll have the whole house party swaying and singing along. Thus the release of their acoustic EP, Closer, replete with four folky renditions of favourites from their last two albums. Continue reading The Town Heroes Strip Down
New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’
Admittedly, I’ve long equated electronic music to nothing more than the muffled hip hop beats pulsating out of rusted Sunfires in a high school parking lot. But Elephant Skeletons’ latest EP ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’ has proven to me that this notion was ill informed and limited. My own inexperienced musical palette and blatant disregard for a whole genre of music left me with the taste of embarrassment, but with the forgiving overtones of fresh discovery. Continue reading New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’