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Weird Lines
Just in time for this year’s Sappyfest, a gaggle of Eastern Canadian indie rockers (including Julie Doiron) band together to put out a very nice little album on a new label called Sappy Futures.
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Frederick Squire
Fred Squire is best known as a former member of the legendary band Shotgun and Jaybird, and for his frequent Julie Doiron collaborations. These days he’s living in Sudbury, Ontario with his songstress...
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Man meets Bear
Ontario-based experimental-folk-naturalist project Man meets Bear released its latest album this week, the wonderful, impressionistic I Want to Be a Gallant Rider Like My Father Was Before Me. Gallant...
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John K. Samson
John K. Samson, best known as the wordy lead singer of Winnipeg’s The Weakerthans, is releasing his newest album, Winter Wheat, on October 21 via ANTI-. I got a stream of it and it’s a wonderful...
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Fraternal Twin
Homeworlding, the wonderful recent dream-pop album by New Paltz-based Fraternal Twin, came out a couple months ago, in October, but I just found out about it recently. And yeah, it’s great. I saw his...
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Leon Patriz
Ramshackle, homespun pop from Montreal-via-Vancouver artist Leon Patriz. Released on my old friend Soren Brothers‘ excellent uur audiovisual label UUR CASSETTE 010: POP MONSTROSITIES by LEON PATRIZ...
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Iluminas
My old friends in Toronto art-rock band Iluminas have finally released their first polished full-length album: Apollo. Though I’ve heard their songs for years, it’s a pleasure to listen to this...
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Nova Scotia’s beloved Joel Plaskett teams with his dad Bill for a wonderful album showcasing the father-son team’s love of Canadian maritime celtic music, English folk and indie-pop/rock: Solidarity.
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Man meets Bear
Utah-via-Toronto songwriter and old friend of the blog Man meets Bear released another naturalistic wonder yesterday June 15th, his latest album Starfishes. It’s one of the more meditative works in...
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Moon King
In a pretty radical stylistic shift, Detroit-via-Toronto artist Moon King is releasing a Detroit house-inspired album called Hamtramck ’16 on Arbutus Records on August 4th. First track “In & Out”...
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