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Toronto band DIANA share the new visuals for "Moment of Silence", a highlight from one of the best records of last year. The short film by director Kevan Funk is a cathartic, beautifully shot "portrait of one fish processing worker and her escape from reality". Watch below + pick up the group's sublime Familiar Touch LP here:

Here's the most calming, dreamlike track you'll hear today: saxophonist Joseph Shabason, who you know from his work in Destroyer and as part of brilliant Toronto band DIANA, shares the first single from his beautiful new solo record Aytche, out this summer on esteemed Austin label Western Vinyl...

DIANA's beautifully sumptous and healing new full-length is out this Friday, but you can stream the whole thing now, courtesy of Hype Machine. Listen to Familiar Touch below, and pre-order the record on 12" here.

Toronto's DIANA shares another classy-as-fuck jam from their forthcoming sophomore LP. Listen to "Confession" -- which the group describes as sounding like an imaginary Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Annie Lennox collab -- and look for the new record Familiar Touch to drop in November:

"here comes the light that i've desired drowning the dark why do i feel so terrified"

Thanks to our friend Kieran Adams of Toronto band DIANA for the heads up on this glowing new track that he produced for his Toronto homie Ivy Mairi. "All Around Me" is an airy, soft-focus gem that Ivy says is "a bit of a departure" from her folkier material, and she arrives at a very sweet spot on the pop spectrum, landing somewhere amid the silky, elegantly floating vocals of

Forest Family + GvsB are taking over Brooklyn Night Bazaar this coming weekend: it goes down Friday + Saturday night (June 6 + 7) at 165 Banker Street in BK, starring Ejecta, DIANA, Lee Bannon, Dent May, Las Rosas + a lot more, including a special surprise guest on Saturday night...

Two of Toronto's finest team up on the new single from Beta Frontiers: the wistful, just-buoyant-enough-for-the-dancefloor electro-pop jam "So Cold", which features the signature lovely, yearning vocals of Carmen Elle from DIANA, will be available for download tomorrow via Buzz Records:

Four Tet drops a throbbing extended rework of the title track from the forthcoming debut album by our beloved DIANA, as premiered by the great Rookie Mag. Download the track here. Perpetual Surrender is out August 20; pre-order here.