Discolor Blind – Long Vivid Dream
The Long Vivid Dream opens up before the listener as if it were the prelude to an awakening, the moment where the mind is unawares of whether it is still in the hands of Morpheus or wit has somehow fallen for the charms of the dramatic day ahead, the crystal clear clarity that comes with the walk through Hell or the gamble of seeing Heaven. The Long Vivid Dream is such that its powerful feeling of melancholy is overwhelmingly familiar, especially to those that have held hands with the vision that their dream visits upon.(Liverpool Sound and Vision)
Goodbye Honolulu – No Honey
No Honey features the aforementioned ode to vintage musical stylings, as well as four other new cuts. It kicks off with the thumping bass line of “Back to Me,” before showing off their punk-tinged garage rock aesthetic on “Where You Wanna Go” and “Bloody Hands.” It all wraps up with “Typical” — though their blend of grungy noise, riffs and melodies is anything but.(Exclaim!)
Shawn William Clarke – Topaz
TOPAZ is gorgeous, lush and intimate, from the two-minute guitar-woodwind opener “Back to Breath” to “Gros Morne,” the dreamy closer. A handful of tracks in this otherwise graceful alliance of songs deserve special attention, though: “Autumn in New Brunswick,” with Olenka Krakus (Olenka and the Autumn Lovers), is a lovely hymn to travel; “Young in Love (At the End of the World),” with Abigail Lapell; and “You’re Lonely, Too,” with Merival on vocals and Christine Bougie on guitar (Bahamas, the Good Lovelies, Jason Collett). They’re all lyrical sketches of everyday life, love and loneliness. Krakus, Lapell and Merival all return for the intensely personal tracks “Mouse Not the Man” and “Anxiety.”(Exclaim!)
Tafari Anthony – Remember When
The Ashley Hundred – The Ashley Hundred
Somewhere between folk, rock and pop lies The Ashley Hundred. A mingling of rock guitar and psychedelic keyboard rhythms, laced with the subtle twang of banjo and driven home by powerful front-and-centre drums, their music is inherently danceable and surprisingly philosophical. The combination fits a festival stage as well as it does a rainy drive through a windswept mountain pass.(Beatroute)
And here are some we missed
Blake Berglund – Realms
There’s a sense of ambition and experimentation rarely heard in Canadian commercial country on Blake Berglund’s fifth full-length release, Realms. Keying in on the spaced-out psychedelia of Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music as a touchstone, Berglund has crafted an album, rather than yet another collection of “potential radio singles.” Its tone is in lock step with the punchiness of commercial radio, with a tip of the chapeau to ‘90s artists like George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Vince Gill, while the steel and organ arrangements lead to more interstellar reaches.(Beatroute)
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I always forget to ask but , what new album/ep releases did I miss this week?
Good morning!
Not that I know of Garf, but I usually rely on you for my new release information.
@Janet, I get most of my data from 3 sites (AOTY, Exclaim, and NME) along with any announcements I or DBS spot and add to the Calendar so I am always a little worried that I have missed something, be it from a well known artist or someone sat in their (Canadian) bedroom.
This makes me so sad. The Oxford is an amazing theatre, and I loved going there when I was a student at Dalhousie.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-s-oxford-theatre-to-close-sept-13-1.4269812
Turning the dead into vinyl records
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40492466
Get your ash into that vinyl!
Hi there.
Did we share The New Haunts release? https://play.spotify.com/artist/4bKNzbZ2nxnd6YKxopkMf0
@DBS I didn’t for the sheer fact I forgot to go back that far
if someone added your cremated remains to some heroin could that be classed as getting you ash into gear?
where did everyone go, my “joke” wasn’t that bad was it?
Har har Garf
Are you playin’ me?
I thought everyone had left in disgust
Chris Ho will have a release out on Sept 3. http://artists.cbcmusic.ca/artist/37869
I have that marked in the calendar but I end the week on a Friday (due to it being the standard release day around the world now)
I could post something about it on Monday
It was an odd release date. He is a rebel.
It looks like New Haunts was actually released August 24, a Thursday.
It’s listed as the 29th on their own bandcamp page
So it does. It was on Apple Music on the 24th and their website and bandcamp after that.
Good morning everyone!
Hi Justin
Hiya Justin! We’ve missed you around here. How’s things?
I just found out Esmerine is releasing a new album in October! I am looking forward to that!
I am good! I love being back in Bend. I was going to do a road trip to Vancouver, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Missoula, and back to Bend but cancelled it. The transmission was going out in my Honda Element. And my left foot was getting grump, pre-injury. I was going to run a 100k race in Lethbridge. So, I cancelled the trip. I still might make it up to Edmonton later this year though.
I wondered about that. Sounds like it was probably a wise choice. I will be in Edmonton Oct 13-16 for sure. UP & DT festival in Edmonton is the weekend before. I am still trying to figure out if I can do both weekends as that festival looks fantastic!
http://updt.ca/
My son’s workshop had to fall on the weekend after and not at the same time. That would have made it too easy.
When I make it to Edmonton I will fly. One long drive from Bend, 16 hours.
I would love to get back to Edmonton. I haven’t been in a few years, but always enjoyed my time there.
I have had way too much debauchery happen in Edmonton, can’t wait to go back!
Alright, I will be back tomorrow with a Labour Day playlist.
shopping
New releases for the week ending September 1st 2017 – ourBasement.ca