New releases for the week ending December 2nd

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New releases for the week ending December 2nd

Essential Growth Twistedships metal	Pat’s Sh Patrick Attics electronic	New Christmas Tunes Various Artists pop
Other Colours The Sole Pursuit rock	Them Moods Unenlightenment experimental	Brume #1 (remix par Mykalle Bielinski) Prince Mychkine alternative
Urban Nature Mastereiz electronic	12GB of Christmas Vol. 4 Robby Duguay soundtrack	_1 novelty toys electronic
Arcade Sessions STINKBOX folk	Radial Trail Firth electronic	Something Fun EP Jen-Eric electronic
first demo Maple Treeway alternative	代替現実 Tux electronic	You Name It You’re Listening Moon River alternative
Molotov Single The Killer Wails punk	Rebel Mix Jane Don’t punk	A Good Man Is Hard To Find Justin Haynes (remixes of music by Ken Aldcroft) experimental
She’s happy e.p. aknowai alternative	TeePeeWone EP TeePeeWone ambient	Thaw (Single) Distance Above alternative
Wild Spectrum JindaLee pop	I Loved You Even When It Hurt Dylan alternative	Adventures In Cowboyland Meet The Blacks country
_ Vexed Records electronic	Road to Optimism Taro Division	Inspirational Soul Songs Ruth Finlay devotional
Navolie Expédition 1 : Le retour de Navolie Élément Kuuda pop	Names Names experimental	Sensory Ghosts FEMME ACCIDENT rock
Stay Ruth Finlay devotional	Simple Sample Nonchalance hip-hop/rap	Live on WKCR Sep 6, 2015 CAUSINGS experimental
Music for the One Percent Adam Bailie folk	Tiger In The Night / Full Leathers 7 The Vicious Cycles punk	Expo 1 Full Eclipse electronic
Machinic Unconsciousness Commander Goznales experimental	amalgamation Josh Grant experimental	solstice samsketchy electronic
llover Sleepy Gonzales alternative	Delta m.bellaire experimental	Up To You saxsyndrum electronic
Flickers Sketch pop	Do Tell Do Tell folk	Movin’ Clinton Sly reggae
Vices/Love Michael Borsellino pop	Its last meal was a squirrel that its owners had found dead on the road about a month ago. MOISTURE DISCIPLINE experimental	A Spiritual Blur / Someone New EP Bone Marrow experimental
Lonely City Non Plus alternative	VGM 2.0 Burrel Beats experimental	Modern Day Chameleon Breakfast for Lunch alternative
Volume 1 Pure White ambient	The Lost Tape OCCVLT hip-hop/rap	Chase (Single) Secret Sign electronic
Old Soul Jacob Damelin Group jazz	Demo 2016 Wasted Breath punk	Dark Frequencer – Unknown Experiment Antistatic electronic
Navolie Expédition 1 : Le retour de Navolie Élément Kuuda ambient	Hang In There Shelby Cohen experimental	Throwbacks (Singles & Features) Taylor Fresh a.k.a. PROFRESHNILL hip-hop/rap
Born to Die Frank Santini rock	Lights Of Hope Joel Willoughby folk	Rough Mixes Gord Cumming rock
Holiday Season Maitro hip-hop/rap	WOU Kapsalona rock	The Ride Roadhouse Pie acoustic
post-mdou lerabot experimental	Can’t Wait to be Broke Exe Sheppard blues	Songs for the Brokenhearted from the Departed Jim Wylde electronic
EMS Live at Placebo Space November 2016 EMS jazz	A Demo Morning In The Burned House alternative	Damaged Eric Stratos
Exit Bag Keelie rock	Your Computer xxxxxx experimental	The Uninvited Guest Michel Cormier classical
Give The Gift Of Personal Empowerment: The Shivers & Tears Speech Compilation Marcos Mendosa spoken word	The Hibs The Hibs rock	/-//-/// (A Pile of Demos) Desert Bloom alternative
Hippies & Aliens DiDM hip-hop/rap	Explore your inner pig LongpigandtheFemcans metal	Immobile Francis Rossignol experimental
just a body, clumsily about HOTLAD alternative

By GarfieldUK| December 1st, 2016|Categories: New Music|77 Comments

77 Comments

Russ Gordon (@CDNz1) December 1, 2016 at 05:45

Good morning!
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 05:45

Hello
Benoit from Ottawa December 1, 2016 at 05:57

G’day!
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 06:15

Good morning!
Michael Wynn December 1, 2016 at 06:38

LIke the list format, just too much of it!
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 06:44

Sorry
Michael Wynn December 1, 2016 at 06:48

I wonder if we need some type of music committee, or if it’s even possible, and we can make this list smaller, you know kind of an “Our Basement” endorsement. We may not all have the time though.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 06:52

I would love for us to have a music committee but I don’t know if there is enough people here
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 07:18

I think I’m going to go ahead and endorse “Its last meal was a squirrel that its owners had found dead on the road about a month ago” without having listened to it or knowing anything about it other than the title.
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 07:19

I like the idea of a music committee. I would volunteer to be on it, if we decide to have one.
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 07:23

OK, I’m listening to it right now. Sounds like it’s trying to run a jpeg through an mp3 decoder.
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 07:26

Well, it is classified as experimental music…
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 07:34

That actually would be an interesting experiment. But I guess I have better things to do today than to download a bunch of high-res photos and a hex editor and open a bandcamp account.
Michael Wynn December 1, 2016 at 07:44

We could just do it by voting, something along the Polaris model. We all pick our top 10 picks, and then out of that come up with the top 10. Just an idea. We don’t necessarily have to have a mtg for it. We could all be “jurors”, etc.
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 07:54

Huh. Now I can’t stop thinking about this. I was thinking, like, editing the headers by hand would be kind of a pain (if it even worked at all), and anyway you’d probably get better results if you used a little more awareness of the data structures in the file formats, so you could kind of map the patterns in the image data to audio patterns. So I figured what you’d want to do is write a Python script or something to… Hey! PYTHON! That whole album has a theme of pythons! Coincidence? Maybe…
krib December 1, 2016 at 08:00

Wynnzie,
you’re going to do this every week without fail?
Michael Wynn December 1, 2016 at 08:19

It doesn’t have to be every week! I doubt I’d have the time. But maybe we can add another post that does what I described, but on a monthly basis. Something like “Our Basement’s picks for November”, just a suggestion.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 08:41

I love the idea Wynnsie! I am in!
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 08:46

My friend Sharon Gudereit, released a Christmas album this month. She is having a CD release party tomorrow night which I can’t go to because I am busy with the play. Check it out when you are ready for some Christmas music. 🙂
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 08:47

@Darbar – how was opening night?
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 08:48

The embed code didn’t work for me. I will try again another time. For now…

http://open.spotify.com/album/44NQYF46ENkOtV3ddOmDvH

spotify:album:44NQYF46ENkOtV3ddOmDvH
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 08:50

@Janet – It went great! There are a couple people with colds and voice issues but they did well still. Me and the other awgwas did frighten some children. Hopefully they don’t have nightmares. hehe
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 08:53

Lol. Maybe just a little scaring to remind them to be good for Santa 🙂
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 09:45

My current plan was that Monday to Wednesday were recommendations, Thursday is this weeks releases and Friday is a playlist.

Thursdays posts started as a way of telling you what was due out the following day so that the user can decide for themselves rather than be told like most other sites, but because I was getting my data from Amazon.ca I was missing a lot of new releases from smaller musicians. I tried to correct this by switching over to Band Camp but I had to start listing what had been released in the past 7 days because Indie artists don’t seem to agree on having a global release day.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 09:46

Plants and Animals had a mini release EP called Passed Out From The Waltzing (B Sides). Use this link if my embedding still doesn’t work.

http://open.spotify.com/album/23tRY0fcfnNNt1H1W4MLGz
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 09:49

I am a little mixed on the list Garf. I appreciate the effort and lesser known artists getting a plug but it is just too overwhelming for me to have that many. Finding a way to narrow it down would be helpful.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 09:52

But wouldn’t that mean the same list is posted somewhere else for people to go through and vote on before the short list is posted here?
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 10:00

I just had another thought. Maybe a playlist to go along with a track from each one so we can just hit play and we can go listen to more if we like a track. I can help with that.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 10:32

With more thought, that would be difficult I am sure. Some on Soundcloud, some on Spotify, etc. but it might be worth looking at.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 10:33

The first album on the list above isn’t on either platform
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 10:34

Apparently Les Dales Hawerchuk had a new release as well. Cool.

http://open.spotify.com/album/7AaqKCtcv6pHowb65UzdZh
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 10:36

I guess we could just make playlists of what we can and that helps narrow it down some.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 10:54

That Les Dales Hawerchuk album rocks!
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:02

Kid Koala has a new album coming out next month (January 20th)
Music To Draw To: Satellite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuCTIhvD5w
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 11:04

I saw that and am very excited!
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:06

From the press release
Just in time for winter, Kid Koala announces the new record Music To Draw To: Satellite, 72 minutes of ambient electronic music featuring vocals by Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini. An uncharted journey for the legendary scratch DJ, Kid Koala’s fifth studio album is an emotional work of expansive instrumental soundscapes and chilling lyrical ballads written by Eric San.

Music To Draw To: Satellite will be released January 20, 2017 on Arts & Crafts on 2LP vinyl, CD, MP3, and Deluxe CD w/ sketchbook. Today, Kid Koala shares album opener “The Observable Universe.”

Kid Koala will mark the release with a special series of Satellite “Turntable Orchestra” concerts. Audiences will collaborate by playing custom vinyl records on individual turntables under the direction of Kid Koala. Tickets go on sale today HERE.

January 26 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
January 27 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
January 28 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
February 2 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 3 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 4 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 12 – New York NY – Le Poisson Rouge (2 shows)
February 16 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage
February 17 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage
February 18 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage (matinée)
February 18 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stag
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 11:08

Listening to the Kid Koala now. It’s interesting, not my usual thing, but definitely good.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 11:10

I have been enjoying a lot of instrumental /electronic music on vinyl lately.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:18

How long should the new releases list be and/or should I make it the weekend post?
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 11:19

If you were only posting curated lists of recommendations, I never would have discovered that god-awful racket produced in tribute to children killed by snakes (or perhaps to snakes who kill children, I can’t tell).
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:21

@loozr, you’re welcome?
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 11:29

It is a long list, but I think it’s a good arrangement. People are free to look through the list and see what catches their fancy and discuss it in the comments or whatever. If you want someone to sit down and listen to dozens of albums and highlight the best few for you, you really need someone with a lot of resources, like say a publicly funded broadcaster staffed full-time by passionate music fans :-/

And of course as you say, there are individual artist profiles on other days for people who are overwhelmed by the big lists.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:34

Would you prefer me to sort the releases by genre rather than having the mixed up?

(and maybe ignore experimental in future)
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:37

Doesn’t the release schedule usually slow down after the holidays?
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 11:38

I kind of like having the releases mixed up, but I can see how it would be easier for people to review by genre.
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 11:41

I don’t think it’s necessary to sort or filter the genres. They’re probably a little arbitrary a lot of the time anyway.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:47

But if the releases were sorted by genre a reader could go to the one(s) they are interested in rather than having to go through the entire list
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 11:49

I wouldn’t exclude experimental. You can exclude devotional and country for me though. :p

I can just randomly pick 5 to 10 for myself to check out.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:53

That’s the thing, I’m not saying “listen to all of these”, I am saying “these things exist” the rest is up to you
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 11:55

at least devotional has rhythm and a melody
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 11:58

I’m not suggesting we do this, but I think it would be a cool idea if everyone took 5 or so releases to check out and report back to the group on what they liked and what they didn’t. Kind of like a round robin music review.

Sorry, my nerd might be showing.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 12:00

Oh I get it Garf. I really do. I just know when faced with too much I just don’t even bother. I am trying though.

Not a bad plan Janet.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:03

@Janet, talk nerdy to me
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 12:04

I am digging Mastereiz at the moment. Chill electronic/instrumental stuff. Or as they tagged it:
electronic ambient downtempo electronica experiemental trip hop urban nature
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 12:16

Are you just getting the genre from the “tags”? For some artists, it looks like including more tags might provide more useful information; for others, not so much.

Followup question: can somebody click https://bandcamp.com/tag/buttrock and tell me what it is? I’m not sure if I want it in my browsing history.
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 12:17

@Loozrboy – I totally would, except I’m at work and bandcamp is blocked.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 12:20

Looks pretty harmless. A bunch of music to check out.

related tags: post-field recording tally smooth jazz lsdj slint world(ly) music loud pop punk fuzz Phoenix Vancouver British Columbia Arizona bass vaporwave lo-fi pop rock punk garage
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:24

The tags I use in the list above comes direct from the discover section of BandCamp where I borrow the data
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:25

Quick question, since I don’t have a post for tomorrow yet how early is too early for a Christmas playlist?
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 12:27

I don’t personally start listening to Christmas music until December 1, so I would say you’re in the clear.
janet athanasiou (@janada59) December 1, 2016 at 12:27

I have to head out everyone, have a good night!
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:29

or do I just post this and call it a day
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:32

Does anyone know how Ivan Hrvatska became a seasonal tradition?
Loozrboy December 1, 2016 at 12:38

Huh. That dude’s top two songs on Spotify are “Making Love to the Vancouver Canucks” and “Making Love to the 2011 Vancouver Canucks”, which are actually not the same song.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 12:53

What week is the provincial one because I do have a playlist for that? We can also post Stream of Consciousness whenever. I am not quite ready for Christmas music myself but I was starting a Winter one.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 12:56

@Garf – Because we heard it on R3 every Christmas? Voila..tradition.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 12:59

@DBS, if you have a playlist for tomorrow that would be great. I wasn’t keeping track of when the provincial lists were meant to be posted.
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 13:02

@Garf – The playlist is ready but we will have to see if I can put some words together.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 13:03

I find that to be the most difficult part
darbarspecial December 1, 2016 at 13:07

Me words trouble.
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 13:10

me no words goodly
GarfieldUK December 1, 2016 at 13:36

ok, me go sleep now
morgana December 1, 2016 at 15:17

Whoa, Christmas has come early!
Look at all of those presents aka new music
morgana December 1, 2016 at 15:19

@garfielduk so funny that I am listening to Ivan Hrvatska at this very moment!
Oh, and sleep well:)
morgana December 1, 2016 at 15:22

also @garfielduk
I have been tossing a bunch of Christmas tunes into one spot on my Spotify if you want to borrow. It is totally unsorted and I still have more to add but help yourself

https://open.spotify.com/user/cbcradio3/playlist/6AX5r7HWbdTMPxpZXehym3
GarfieldUK December 2, 2016 at 05:00

Please excuse the late arrival of today’s post, I have no idea what to write
GarfieldUK December 2, 2016 at 05:05

I have a Christmas playlist (with help from DBS & Morgana) but, as an outsider, it is impossible for me to write about how Canadians celebrate this time of year because I have never been in Canada at this time of year,