Each Thursday we try to look forward to what music Canadian artists will be putting out the following day.
This week sees just four releases but they cover a wide selection of music genres.
Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker – Room 29
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales’ first collaborative album is a song-cycle centred around the piano in the titular room of the Château Marmont in West Hollywood – a hotel with a reputation as something of a den of iniquity during the Roaring Twenties. Featuring cameo appearances from the likes of Jean Harlow, Howard Hughes and Clara Bow, Room 29 comes across like a stripped-down riff on Lou Reed’s classically grubby Berlin album with splashes of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill and even Noel Coward to tell the tale of the ghosts of times past in “a comfortable venue for a nervous breakdown”. (the arts desk)
Lunar Lemur – Meat Blob Groove Machine (Trinket Trance)
Lunar Lemur is a person (?) I randomly encountered in Toronto at Dufferin Grove Park in the summer of 2015 around midnight, sitting under a tree wearing a cheap lemur suit and chunky headphones. She, he, it or whatever, was hunkered over an old laptop. When I approached and asked “what are you working on?” the lemur didn’t say a word, just looked up, handed me the headphones and pressed play. It took less than a minute before I was fumbling for my wallet and asking if I could buy whatever it was I was hearing. (Trinket Trance)
Madchild – The Darkest Hour (Battle Axe Records)
The Darkest Hour is the upcoming solo release from Madchild, who burst onto Canada’s late-90s hip-hop scene as one-third of the multi-platinum-selling group Swollen Members. And with the new project nearing completion, the notorious road-warrior has announced a string of tour dates in support of the album’s anticipated March 10th release.(GoBe Weekly)
The Cousins – Rattlesnake Love (Independent)
The Cousins, featuring actual real-life cousins Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies) and actor/comedian Harland Williams, will unleash their new LP Rattlesnake Love to the world on March 17, 2017. The album features 11 eclectic and diverse tracks written and recorded in The Purple Pineapple Studios with Hearn at the production helm. Title track “Rattlesnake Love” features legendary JUNO and Genie Award-winning “agent provocateur” Carole Pope. Hearn and Williams, whose mothers are sisters and who forged a strong family and musical bond starting when they were kids, last released an EP in 2004 titled “The Love Song Years”. (PR Newswire)
Johanna Sillanpaa – From This Side (Chronograph)
Drake – More Life (OVO)
What do you think of tomorrows releases?
Do you know of something that we have missed?
Hello
I was unable to find any full album preview streams this week unless you count leaked albums but I have added as many tracks as I can. I will return over the weekend and add full album streams from Bandcamp, Soundcloud and, Spotify where they are available.
Good morning!
Heyho.
Good morning.
The names of many of the Lunar Lemur tracks (e.g. Friendly Swarm, Dorsal Wheeze, Jilted Parabola…) sound suspiciously like the output of a random name generator I use. And I was disappointed to realize that wasn’t your personal account of how you discovered them, Garf.
@Loozr, sorry
Good morning!
Kevin Hearn has been busy, in addition to working on The Cousins, BNL is mixing a new album, and recorded an album of songs with a capella group The Persuasions.
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Tiny London house sells in Chelsea for £700,000 ($1,153,053 CDN)
Despite being 23 square metres (250 sq ft), the property includes a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and reception.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39288622/tiny-london-house-sells-in-chelsea-for-700000—100000-more-than-expected
I am emerging from one heck of a sleep in!
I am going to look into The Persuasions … probably more to my liking than the Madchild I just listened to the first four lines of.
Hello
As usual I am late to the party, you may want to check out Diane Panton.
She hasn’t released anything since 2015, but she is a Canadian jazz singer.
I think similar to Jill Barber.
I have decided that there is no late to this party … from the perspective of usually the last person to join in anyway!
Thanks for joining the party and for the recommendation!
Hi Scott, thank you for the heads up
Ha, ha, I meant late to the party as in I [just] discovered Diane Panton & she has been around quite a while.
@Scott, you were still before me in finding out about her
Add ‘just’ between I and discovered
added 🙂
my Spotify is taking holiday so i have a scrap of paper to remind me to look up Scotts recommendation as well as Joan Shelley who Mr Teeter saw open for Wilco and has recommended … for now I have a lunch date with a friend from my childhood to get ready for … with no Spotify!!!
Cool! Thanks Garf.
Thanks for the recommendation, Scott! I’m looking forward to checking out Diana Panton
Do we have any British Bake Off fans?
Sandi Toksvig, food writer Prue Leith and comedian Noel Fielding will join Paul Hollywood when The Great British Bake Off returns in the autumn.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39296513
got the paddles out and got Spotify working … I can’t function without tunes!
@Scott you may like Laura Landsberg.
https://open.spotify.com/user/ontheroadmgmt/playlist/0YUQWTpEkdEIx8f2fqPRfE
as the lineup for the festival is announced the playlist is getting added to. not all cancon but you may find something you like.
that is it for me … later kids.
Thanks Morgana,
Checking out Laura Landsberg now.
TIL: Harland Williams is a musician, too.
Hello friendly people!
@sless!! Howdy stranger:)
@sless how is life?
what is your favourite ear candy these days?
shoot, my ride is on their way here.
we will catch up another time …
Future Peers has really helped me get back into Canadian indie music. Not that I ever left, but that I just got busy.
What’s the plan this year with the picnic? Anyone mention anything about it lately?
I love the music sharing that went on here today!