A blistering return from Becca Harvey's girlpuppy project today, alongside the announcement of a brand new LP to be released shortly, at the end of March, via the ever-excellent Capture Tracks label. 'Sweetness', released March 28th, was made with Alex Farrar, who's previously worked
"Bad News is made for that period of time between the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Stillness before movement," Magana says of her new four-song EP. "Each song is about the period of time right before a transition: the realization that change is coming
Home to the likes of US Girls, Wolf Parade, Ducks Ltd et al, Royal Mountain has always been a pillar of the Canadian indie scene and their latest release is another gem of a record, this time from Alberta songwriter Ella Coyes. Now based in Toronto, and releasing records as
It was sometime in mid 2023 when I had a BTS chat on social media with Shura, who reached out after seeing me talk about a big heap of writer's block I was trying to overcome. She was kind enough to share some resources that had helped her,
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“Patience comes to the bones before it takes root in the heart," Mary Oliver writes in her poem Patience: A poem for late summer. And it was those words that stirred something deep within Kristin Daelyn, deep enough to not only be reshaped into a new song, but to
There's something quite apt about brand new music from Florist arriving today, on the greyest, wettest day I've found outside my window of 2025 so far. Thus far, Florist's music has almost unanimously belonged to the Spring and Summer, warm gentle days where the
Hello lovely subscribers. It's a Sunday evening so I'll keep this short and sweet. For the past couple of months I've been loving curating and laying out our end-of-year coverage for 2024. We've never really cared about getting in early in terms
I first got into Destroyer via Kaputt, an all-time Top 20 album for me, and one so arrestingly brilliant it took me a while to venture away from. Perhaps it was the apparent slight mis-step in its long-awaited follow-up, 2015's Poison, but Dan Bejar has since made amends
It seems like just yesterday we had Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner on the cover of Issue 8 of our printed publication. It wasn't, of course. It was, in fact, some (and somehow) almost four years ago, the only silver lining of such swift passing of time
A little while back I wrote about discovering the music of Talons' at one of those moments where I really needed it. I was away on my own in a foreign country, all that time for people watching and wandering, smelling new smells, seeing different types of light. The
Anna B Savage is a big fan, it seems, of early-year album releases. Her debut album, A Common Turn, was released in January of 2021, its follow-up arrived in February of 2023, and she continues the pattern with You and i are Earth, the forthcoming ten-song set which will greet