No one has been more eager to hit the road than Antigonish-expats The Trews. While many bands released music over the last year and a year that lamented their woeful circumstances, the loss of their livelihood, the lack of live audiences, and languishing without being able to do what they love most, few did it on the same scale as The Trews did with their single “I Wanna Play” — though they did get to play to a max capacity arena at the time (read: empty).
According to the band, this lackluster period of our lives has not been without a silver lining. It’s been the percolator that’s brought their newly announced seventh studio album to a boil, simultaneously bringing about a bizarre source of inspiration while stripping them of all distraction. The album’s title track, “The Wanderer” was released today. Continue reading The Trews Announce Their Seventh Album with New Single ‘The Wanderer’→
Mo Kenney flexes her expansive music taste on her latest release, the simply but unquestionably accurately titled Covers. The Dartmouth-based singer/songwriter takes a decided stripped-down approach to the ten songs she has chosen to lend her voice to. Continue reading Mo Kenney Strikes a Simple Yet Stunning Stance on ‘Covers’→
Between 400 and 600 million years ago, a period marked by the evolutionary emergence of both sharks and trees, an ocean stretched between unrecognizable continents. Iapetus, named for the Titan father of Atlas, would be the precursor to the Atlantic Ocean, but so far removed from our current era it may as well have been an alien planet.
For experimental electronic musician John Kennedy, it’s a wonderfully suitable title for his richly ambient debut album. Iapetus represents a journey through foreign territory using familiar elements but arranged for a hauntingly esoteric landscape. It represents a beginning. Continue reading John Kennedy’s ‘Iapetus’ is the Soundtrack to an Eon→
Quarry Island. A small chip of land not far from New Glasgow, NS. It is secluded, sedate, and cradled in nature. Quarry Island is, in short, everything that Brooklyn, NY is not. Yet it is here, in the company of friends, and with the world standing still, that Nat Osborn, a native New Yorker wrote his most reflective album to date. Continue reading Castaway in Nova Scotia: Nat Osborn Tells His Story on ‘The Quarry Island Sessions’→
