The latest offering from Prince Edward Island-based Little Cities comes at an inopportune time – the perfect party soundtrack, during a time when partying is in direly short supply. The self-titled EP feels like it exists in a singular world, booze-fuelled confessions taking place across the same hectic Friday night. Continue reading New Music: Little Cities Release Self-Titled EP of Party Anthems
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New Music: Rube & Rake Embrace New Ideas on ‘Leave With Nothing’
Josh Sandu and Andrew Laite, better known as Rube & Rake, are back and ready to push themselves beyond their comfort zone with an album that can uplift, remind of loves lost and make you yearn for home–wherever that “Somewhere” in particular is for you. Continue reading New Music: Rube & Rake Embrace New Ideas on ‘Leave With Nothing’
New Music: Get Real! Release Energetic Debut Album ‘Seasick Hotel’
If you’re planning on giving a listen to the debut LP from Nova Scotia-based Get Real!, you’ll probably want to pop a Red Bull first, because the energy is tough to compete with. Continue reading New Music: Get Real! Release Energetic Debut Album ‘Seasick Hotel’
New Music: TWRP Achieves Singularity With ‘Over The Top’
Over The Top is the latest sonic hyper-jump by Halifax’s galactic immigrants TWRP. The record is a perfect collision of their unstoppable moment and the conventions of today. You will hear the expected vocoder party anthems, the slinky guitar/synth/bass riffs, and the driving beats, but this time it all comes blended perfectly with the sounds of modern ’80s pop and electro-funk revivalism.
Everything sounds bigger, cooler, better than ever — somehow more epic and more focused at the same time. The finely tuned pop numbers are sure to win big with the party crowd, while the astonishing musicianship on display and the sheer quality of the arrangements will have serious enthusiasts engaged for ages. I am comfortable calling this the definitive TWRP album. Continue reading New Music: TWRP Achieves Singularity With ‘Over The Top’
New Music: Rev Hank Crafts an Ode to Spaghetti Westerns with ‘El Camino De Los Muertos’
Ambition, when untethered from practicality, produces the kind of decadent artistic expression that I crave and the spaghetti western delivers. Rev Hank’s El Camino De Los Muertos is a gunslinger that chooses a strange and beautiful hill to die on, located in the Italian countryside, masquerading as the wild west. Continue reading New Music: Rev Hank Crafts an Ode to Spaghetti Westerns with ‘El Camino De Los Muertos’