RECORD REVIEW: E-SAGGILA (CAN) – MY WORLD MY WAY (Northern Electronics)
Toronto experimental techno producer Rita Mikhael aka E-Saggila has released her brief but stunningly powerful new album My World My Way on Stockholm left field techno label Northern Electronics. It follows on from last year’s excellent Dedicated To Sublimity for Bank Records where her penchant to utilise a vast array disparate and oppositional elements and […]
INDOOR VOICES COMPLETES RELEASE OF NEW SINGLE “BETTER”
Last week or so Indoor Voices, the Toronto shoegaze project led by Jonathan Relph completed the release cycle for his new double A sided single ‘Better’ with its upload to streaming services. Digitally released in April, it comes just eight months after the release of his impressive full length Gaslight Ephemera, which appeared in a […]
LISTEN TO CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD’S NEW SINGLE, “ANDREW”, NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL
“You’re a man of ambition You’re gonna wear yourself thin Told me you woke up crying with crawling skin You’re a man of rigour and discipline Still you woke up crying” ‘Andrew’ — Charlotte Cornfield Last month Toronto artist Charlotte Cornfield released her breezy yet stirringly chord dominant new single ‘Andrew’, a compassionately instructive track about […]
LISTEN TO THE OPENER FROM CIEL’S NEW EP
Toronto artist/producer/radio host et.al Cindy Li, aka Ciel is set to release her new EP Hundred Flowers next month. Listen to the opening track ‘Hundred Flowers Groove’ below where the space between the heavy sub bass and dainty jazz infused keys is at once cavernous but strangely immediate and inviting. Pre-order the Discwoman member’s EP […]
NATHAN MICAY DEBUTS ON WHITIES
Toronto producer Nathan Micay otherwise known as Bwana, has produced a gorgeously widescreen two tracker under his own name for London label Whities. The deep house inspired ‘First Casualty’ is an exuberant exhibit of delicate defiance while ‘Beginning Ballads’ gradually and in ethereal fashion veers towards a tough yet smooth techno finish. Micay has described […]
TESS ROBY SHARES GIVEN SIGNS OFF DEBUT LP BEACON
Today Montreal via Toronto artist Tess Roby shared the reflective and poignant “Given Signs”, the second single from her debut album Beacon which was written a couple of years back in the aftermath of her English born father’s passing. Glistening guitar melodies, elegant synth touches and crisp drums and percussion fit hand in hand with Roby’s […]
PREOCCUPATIONS SHARE STANDOUT THIRD SINGLE & VIDEO FROM NEW MATERIAL, OUT TODAY
New Material is the stunning new album released today by remarkably consistent Calgary post punk experimentalists Preoccupations. Thus far the band have shared the urgency of synth based ‘Espionage’ as well as ‘Antidote’ , an inspired, genre bending work with a hypnotically industrial flavour and earlier this week added the exceptional album standout ‘Disarray’ to […]
TUSKS RELEASES DISSOLVE
Emily Underhill, the London based artist behind TUSKS released her debut album, Dissolve last week. A delicate yet at times weighty affair, especially lyrically, it oscillates in influences from the melancholic, space laden, minimalistic tones and off kilter beats of electronic opener ‘For You’ to more traditional singer-songwriter structures like ‘Ivy’ and ‘My Love’. Whichever […]
U.S. GIRLS IS ‘MAD AS HELL’ AND SO SHE FUCKING SHOULD BE (AND SO SHOULD YOU)
Meg Remy, the force behind U.S. Girls is back with a new single and video ‘Mad As Hell’. It’s an equal parts ironic and acerbic 60s/disco inspired fuck you to the labyrinth of propaganda and lies associated with the totally unnecessary and ultra-destructive “alpha” male driven military industrial complex. One where an ongoing false and manipulative narrative […]
EBHONI’S DEBUT EP, MOOD RING
Toronto artist Ebhoni Cato-O’Garro, aka EBHONI released her authoritative and emotionally gritty debut EP Mood Ring a few months back. Cheers to Jacques Greene thru Gorilla vs Bear for the heads up. If you haven’t caught the buzz around the 17 year old singer-songwriter and the production of OPIUM/SOS/SLS, check out the slow burn of […]