MONTREAL’S MURMURE DRAW ON THEIR SHOEGAZE SIDE
Montreal based duo French duo Murmure self-released their new seven track EP Espace-temps last week. It sees their main focus turn toward the shoegazing and dream pop side of the project and confine their ambient, cinematic and post rock influences to its brief bookends and the interlude ‘Pleine Lune’. With an injection of pace and […]
BLUE MATERIAL GETS PERSONAL
Blue Material, the latest project belonging to Montreal singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Thom Gillies (Vesuvio Solo, ex-TOPS) released his self titled debut album back in April and this delicate gem, new single ‘Personal’, was supposed to feature on it. Shrouded within a hazy and gloriously fragile 70’s veneer, its a mixture of lo-fi pop sheen and […]
CORRIDOR RELEASE COMPACT NEW SINGLE
Montreal French-Canadian post punk quartet Corridor have released the excellent motorik inspired second single ‘Domino’ from their forthcoming ideas rich album Junior. Sung in French as per all their material, a driving rhythm and a familiar yet killer bass hook underpins wiry melodies and chiming chord play. The compact and colourful vibe that formula quickly […]
NEW VIDEO: SORRY GIRLS (CAN) – ONE THAT YOU WANT
This week saw Montréal pop duo Heather Foster Kirkpatrick and Dylan Konrad Obront aka Sorry Girls share the first taste from their debut album Deborah. Complete with an appropriately breezy self directed video inspired by the painting Les Amants, ‘One That You Want’ is heartfelt pop at its finest. Infectious swooning synths intermittently curl around […]
LUDOVIC ALARIE RELEASES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO AHEAD OF NEW ALBUM
Next week sees Montreal artist Ludovic Alarie release his new album We’re A Dream Nobody Wrote Down. It’s a nostalgic mixture of soft rock and dream pop with tinges of folk and R&B thrown in for good measure and features luminaries such as Blonde Redhead’s Simone Pace, Patrick Watson’s Mishka Stein and Warren C. Spicer […]
KAREN GWYER REMIXES DEENA ABDELWAHED; DANIEL AVERY REMIXES MARIE DAVIDSON
Indie30 doesn’t usually cover remixes but when two tracks from two of your favourite albums of 2018, Khonnar from Tunisian artist/producer Deena Abdelwahed and Working Class Woman from Canadian equivalent Marie Davidson get remixes from the likes of English left field electronic and techno luminaries Karen Gwyer and Daniel Avery respectively exceptions are mandatory. Listen […]
MARIE DAVIDSON & LAMUSA II TEAM FOR “LA ECSTASE”
Montreal electronic artist Marie Davidson is set to physically release a new EP which coalesces around the heightened ‘So Right’, a track originally released as a digital single in late August in the lead up to her amazing record Working Class Woman released last month. The new release includes the extended mix of said single […]
FOXTROTT’S NEW CEREBRAL POP BEAUTY MORE THAN DELIVERS
Having released Meditations I and II in July and August respectively, Montreal artist FOXTROTT (Marie-Hélène Delorme) has shared ‘Deliver’, her heartfelt and honest new single in the lead up to the third and final tranche of her new album Meditations I-II-III out on One New Indian October 5. Watch the lyric video to the work […]
MARIE DAVIDSON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE “SO RIGHT”
Montreal artist/producer Marie Davidson has announced the impending release her fourth full length album Working Class Woman. It’s her most personal record to date and is built on Davidson’s idiosyncratic take on a plethora of electronic genres and her spoken text observations and forthright reflections of working within the spheres of dance music and club […]
FOXTROTT EMERGES WITH THREE PART EP SERIES, MEDITATIONS
Montreal producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Marie-Hélène L. Delorme aka FOXTROTT has released a new single ‘Wait’ the first cut from her forthcoming EP Meditations I and the first in a series of three to be released over the remainder of this year. The raw sound of the percussion is noticeable immediately as the kick sets […]