London-based artist Francesca Belcourt shares their beautiful debut release under new moniker Tiberius b. Tiberius b says via instagram that "No Smoke" is "a teaching mechanism, talking to oneself and sharing those conversations with the air and with you," and the song has a poignant, bittersweet vibe that feels almost hopeful and comfortingly nostalgic, like a wistfully familiar recurring dream...
Montreal producer + composer Michael Silver aka CFCF drops the long-awaited 4th installment in his legendary Night Bus mix series. This one was over 3 years in the making, and Silver says that it is, in many ways, "the most personal thing I've ever made". Listen to the mix, which features amazing new night bus remixes of a few classics, and check the tracklist below:
The band hooks up with their fellow Montreal luminaries Ouri + Antony Carle in the sweet new self-directed video for the breezy Oncle Jazz instrumental deep cut "Alright":
Montreal's TOPS announce the launch of their brand new label Musique TOPS with the release of a sweet new double A-side 7", featuring the beautifully tender love song "Echo of Dawn" and the infectious groove of self-described "imposter syndrome anthem" "Seven Minutes. Listen to both songs below, and look out for more from TOPS coming in 2020 (including a U.S. tour!):
It was a bittersweet day when beloved Montreal duo She-Devils said goodnight earlier this year, as the group's Audrey Ann Boucher left us with the promise of new music from each member's respective solo projects in the near future...
Men I Trust has been one of our favorite bands in the world since they dropped the song of the year two years ago, and tonight they finally grace us with one of our most anticipated albums of 2019: listen to the group's 24-song double LP Oncle Jazz in its entirety below, and pre-order the record's second pressing on clear vinyl (the black vinyl first-pressing is already sold out) here.
If you've somehow managed to escape the charms of Quebec's Josie Boivin aka MUNYA up to this point, her dreamy new session with BALCONY is now here to change all that. One youtube commenter says that "Hotel Delmano" reminds them of the music from Little Big Planet, which is not necessarily a comparison we would have drawn, but that game is sweet and MUNYA should definitely be featured in the next installment...
Montreal duo Blue Hawaii return with a dreamy deep house anthem, taken from their new album Open Reduction Internal Fixation, coming this fall on Arbutus. "All That Blue" has a heavy late '80s / early '90s vibe, as Ra Standell-Preston takes a glorious house-diva turn over the track's pulsing beat, with that smoky sax and haunting vocoder accoutrement lifting the track into the rafters of the club...
Taken from Sorry Girls' debut LP Deborah, coming 10/18 on Arbutus. Video directed by the group's Heather Foster Kirkpatrick with Lara Olanick, "shot on an iPhone6 and inspired by the Magritte painting Les Amants":