DESTROYER RETURNS WITH KEN
“Bombs in the city, plays in the sticks.” Sky’s Grey. Early last month Vancouver artist Dan Bejar announced the release date for his new Destroyer album. Album number 12 is simply called ken, a reference to the original title of English band Suede’s 1994 track ‘The Wild Ones’ off Dog Man Star, it follows 2015’s […]
ECLETIC DEBUT FROM IN MIRRORS
The last couple of months have seen as veritable slew of releases from the Portland based label Italians Do It Better. One of them is the debut album Escape From Berlin from In Mirrors, the Vancouver based collaborative project driven by Jesse Taylor. Across its 35 minutes it presents as a singular sound collage containing […]
THE COURTNEYS SHARE NEW SINGLE FROM NEW RECORD
Vancouver pop/rock outfit The Courtney’s are set to release their second album, The Courtneys II later this month and have just shared a new track from it, the deliberative and subtle, ‘Minnesota’. Newly signed to New Zealand’s premier independent record label, Flying Nun (in fact the only non-NZ signing – ever), the album’s approach is […]
SPORTING LIFE AND EVY JANE COME TOGETHER
For some reason, we’ve been sitting on this superb collaboration from Harlem producer Sporting Life featuring the alluring vocals of Vancouver’s Evelyn Mason, one half of Evy Jane, for far too long. Listen to the exceptional ‘Court Vision’ via the Evan Mason and GEORGIA shot and edited video below. Sporting Life’s Slam Dunk Vol II […]