La Sécurité, Stay Safe!: REVIEW
“As a music critic for the past 10 years, I can say Stay Safe! might be one of the strongest debut albums to appear out of thin air. Let’s just hope the world listens.”
Sparks, The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte: REVIEW
“Even close to six decades into their career, Sparks still has a knack for operatic poppy vocal hooks or off-kilter melodies that chew the mind.”
Nightmare weaver SAMWOY draws inspiration from soundtracks and trauma
We spoke with the Montreal musician about his debut LP, Awkward Party, and working on a film script about his life-changing accident.
10 free shows to see at the Francos de Montréal music festival, from June 9 to 17
Bibi Club, Coeur de Pirate and Choses Sauvages are among the many artists gearing up to play stages in the Quartier des Spectacles.
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT, Darling the Dawn: REVIEW
“The debut LP from the drone wave/shoegaze project by Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Efrim Manuel Menuck and la Force’s Ariel Engle.”
Bluebird, Myrtle Avenue: REVIEW
“I don’t know when it became so unbearable to just continue existing as a 20- or 30-something, but this experiment in alt-country, Canadiana and hints of psychedelic shoegaze is a damn near perfect take on the experience.”
Yves Tumor, Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds): REVIEW
“This album is a marvel. The sheer imagination in the second half of ‘Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood’ — it’s just like falling in love with music again and again.”
Bodywash told us how their dream pop went dark
When the Montreal band’s songwriting duo felt their whole concept of home slipping away, they threw all their frustrations at their second album, I Held the Shape While I Could.
Montreal record label and music collective Baby Horse rocks old school sounds
Inspired by Sun Records, and bearing some resemblance to L.A.’s legendary Wrecking Crew, Baby Horse is the root of its own DIY music scene in Verdun.
Patche, Patche: REVIEW
“This is the debut album by a new local experimental electronic-krautrock five-piece that pushes the boundaries of modular synthesizers.”