At the risk of sounding extremely biased, which, as a blog, I definitely am: if we're being honest, the 9 songs that make up the four collective volumes of Helena Deland's From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied”, while not technically intended to exist as a cohesive full-length album, is easily one of the best records of the year...
Saguenay, Quebec's Josianne Boivin aka MUNYA continues to regale us with her endlessly charming and dreamy "new synth folk" on "If I'm Gone Tomorrow (It's Because of Aliens)", her first release sung in English...
Men I Trust is back to ease us into the hazy shade of fall with some glowing end-of-summer nostalgia -- courtesy of Emma's soothing dulcet voice, another understated but irresistibly groovy bassline, and that shredding guitar solo -- on their lovely and timeless new Laurel Canyon-meets-Montreal smooth jam "Seven"...
After winning our hearts forever with their irresistible debut EP and a handful of unforgettable live performances earlier this year at SXSW, Montreal's Anemone return with a soaring new single. The group's dreamily sweeping psych-pop billows skyward like a wave of sunshine on their empowering anthem "Daffodils"; listen + check out the beautiful cover art that the band shot during a recent stop in White Sands, New Mexico, below:
Saguenay, Quebec's Josianne Boivin, aka MUNYA, follows up her absolutely perfect North Hatley mini-EP with another, perhaps even more enchanting 3-song EP, coming very soon on Luminelle Recordings...
