Toronto duo Ducks Ltd (formerly Ducks Unlimited) have shared new single ’18 Cigarettes’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Modern Fiction’ via Carpark Records on 1 October. Partly inspired by an Oasis performance of ‘Don’t Go Away in 1997, the new single finds the band looking back on a time in their lives where…
Initially Madeline Link’s solo project, PACKS have added three members (Shane Hooper on drums, Noah O’Neil on bass and Dexter Nash on lead guitar) to their line-up and are all set to release debut record ‘take the cake’ via Fire Talk and Royal Mountain Records. The Toronto-based band shared stages with the likes of Squirrel…
Packs have shared the video for new single ‘Silvertongue’, the second to be taken from new record ‘Take the Cake’ (out on 14 May through Fire Talk and Royal Mountain). Following shows with acts including Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman, this scatty and scuzzy piece of grunge-meets-slacker pop will introduce Maddie Link to a wider…
Dana Gavanski has shared new single ‘Good Instead of Bad’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Yesterday Is Gone’ via Flemish Eye on 27 March. Described by Dana as ‘more a mood than a story’, the heartrending song is tinged with sadness over the end of a relationship. It finds Dana examining how things…
Toronto-via-Charlottetown indie rockers Kiwi Jr release debut album ‘Football Money’ via Persona Non Grata Records (Pip Blom). The record, engineered by Aaron Goldstein and mixed by Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh, follows shows with huge bands including Wolf Parade, New Pornographers and Alvvays. Clocking in at under 30 minutes, the 10 tracks kick off with ‘Murder…
Toronto musician Dana Gavanski follows up the excellent ‘One by One’ with new single ‘Catch’. Available as limited edition 7″ via Dana’s Bandcamp, the song was produced by Mike Lindsay (a member of Tunng and Lump alongside Laura Marling), Dana describes the song as ‘an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how…
Toronto native Deanna Petcoff writes ‘happy songs about sad things’ and new single ‘Stage Lights’ captures this perfectly. Opening with a Kim Deal-esque bass line, Deanna starts to look back on a night where she felt a spark with a touring musician and asks ‘What if?’ She wonders what might have been if instead of…
Released via Big Scary Monsters in the UK and Dine Alone Records in Canada and the United States, Pkew Pkew Pkew’s new album ‘Optimal Lifestyles’ finds frontman Mike Warne examining whether living a ‘lively’ punk-rock life and enjoying so many killer parties has had a positive effect on him and his bandmates’ lives – and…
Mutes – ‘Vanishing‘ Birmingham shoegazers Mutes have unveiled the first song from their debut long player and ‘Vanishing’ is possibly their most immediate song yet. It sounds like Cloud Nothings grappling with Johnny Foreigner and has a post-punk sound that immediately prickles the ears. There’s even a completely gloriously clashing breakdown to signal the ending.…
Since arriving in Toronto in 2012, Merival has been a figure on the Canadian indie scene and has collaborated with artists including Torquil Campbell from Stars and Darren Seltmann from The Avalanches. ‘Lovers’ is her debut EP and in her words is ‘shaped by relationships and reflection, finding beauty and transformation in heartache’. All written…
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