Al Lerman – Northern Bayou (indie)
Bleu Nuit – Le jardin des mémoires (Michel Records)
Broken Social Scene – Let’s Try The After,Vol 2 (Arts & Crafts)
On April 13, the band will release special physical editions of both Let’s Try The After EPs, packaged together for Record Store Day. Broken Social Scene are touring through August, with dates across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. (SPIN)
CJ Flemings – Mascara Tears (indie)
Emily Rowed – April
Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys – DREAMLAND (indie)
My Son the Hurricane – Ride The Bullet (indie)
Odonis Odonis – Reaction
While Post Plague delivered prime goth-club dance floor material, No Pop scoffed at convention, as more experimental, metallic thrash shifted between disquieting and hypnotic dread. Reaction melds the strengths of these two releases. The minimalist approach to industrial here is slow-paced, with the fattest of steady beats hitting hard as blasts of static swell and sputter between them.(Exclaim!)
Sara Dufour – Sara Dufour (Let Artists Be)
Saxsyndrum – Second Nature (So Sorry Records)
Montreal electro experimenters Saxsyndrum are best known for exactly what their name implies — blending sax, synth and drums — but on their latest album, Second Nature, they’re leaning into a pop sound.(Exclaim!)
Hello
I am thinking of dropping the reviews part, because they are often the most difficult section to find, and just posting streams and videos.
What do you think?
@Morgana, stay away from the last entry on that list, you will not like it
Sara Dufour sounds as if she’s from New Brunswick.
And good morning…
according to her facebook page she is from Dolbeau-Mistassini in northern Quebec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbeau-Mistassini
it looks like the plugin that auto-refreshes the comments stops the easy edit plugin working on all but the first comment
Good Morning,
Lots to listen to this morning, Thank-you
you are welcome Scott
I see Julian Assange has been arrested in London
Dolbeau-Mistassini: Ah, thanks, makes sense. Just as N-B was somewhat distant from the main Québec cities, and retained its own accent and slang, Dolbeau etc. is in a similar situation, being just Northwest of lac St-Jean, the source of the Saguenay. Meaning, as you get to the North of the lake, it’s where Wild Québec starts. Unsurprising, then, that Sara Dufour should have a similar accent to NB’s ‘chiaque’, and wordages that I mistook for chiaque slang.
Chiaque Slang, the name of my new NB band.
not the name for a Francophone NB rapper?
Chiaque Slang Slinger
Good morning.
I will have to come back to do listening later today. My first stop of the day is at the Dr’s.
Hmmm, in the 90’s I dated a fellow in a band called Second Nature. Saxsyndrum seems to have thought that was a cool word combo too.
Could be, just as easily.
I’m back out to do and get things. It’s beautifully sunny. Fun thing, all that despised snow we got two days ago had melted, yesterday, on my front lawn. Nice! And there are bulby spring plants (daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths) that have been poking and growing in the front, too. They don’t wait!
I was watching the GCN Tech show and as they were going through some photos of viewers cycles when someone who had sent in an image of their bike from Canada with snow on the ground and commenting how it was Spring in Canada. The hosts thought that amount of snow (less than an inch) would bring England to a standstill, but then again they are southern softies.
Tea break time!
when you decide to clean your TV screen while watching a recent endurance race on youtube and you wonder why something won’t shift before you realize it is on the windscreen of the car they are taking an on-board feed from. :facepalm:
Back from getting a talking to from my GP for not coming in when things in the body are not working. Also, a prescription of antibiotics to deal with the dog bite wound.
In brighter news; we leave for Calgary tomorrow to see Hawksley Workman! The down side is this will means I will not be here tomorrow however. Monday I will be at an allergy specialist in Kelowna then on the road home so also won’t be here.
Lastly, the food is growing in the garden, the Witch Hazel is in full bloom and smells amazing and the bulbs are up. Happy times!
@GarfieldUK but reading the reviews is so entertaining. Sometimes they are spot on but a lot of the time the pile of descriptive words seems so random and over the top that they make next to know sense. Perhaps I’m just not cool enough to understand a number of the references. Why I find this entertaining is unclear.
Half way through skimming the releases; BSS is the only thing that I have enjoyed:(
I’m going to go enjoy some outdoors for a spell.
@Morgana, I will try to find more sources for the reviews in the future
The UK’s most-streamed songs may surprise you
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47881992
@GarfieldUK only if you find inspiration. Far be it from me to write your job description.
If I only did what inspired me at the moment I would be asleep all day every day
I need to work on having more releases, not only for these posts, but also for the radio show
I am thinking of contacting factor to see if they can help me tracking Canadian Indie releases
@GarfieldUK
Those sound like worthwhile endeavours.
Have fun getting the ball rolling on them.
Is there any way the timer on the comment box can be made to run longer? Maybe it is just me but I continually get kicked out of it while I am brewing my next brilliant thought.
I think the comment box keeps pausing when ever you stop typing due to the refreshing of the posted comments (it gets me too)
I just emailed Factor, I am expecting a polite “go away” but you never know
It never hurts to ask, sometimes it needs to be repeatedly however. Something about testing a person’s tenacity/commitment.
I have often been told that I should be committed
committed hey … a few different ways that word could be used indeed.
I have to check out for the day. Packing and such is calling.
See you next week.
safe travels Morgana