Joseph Shabason

Incredible day all around for outstanding new releases, but I'd be remiss if I didn't call special attention to my favorite release of the week and one of my most cherished albums of 2022: My Dread, the stunning new record from Ontario's Caylie Runciman, aka Boyhood...

Toronto's Sophia Ruby Katz, aka Shirley Hurt, shares another gem from her beautiful self-titled debut album, coming next month on Telephone Explosion...

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:

DIANA's beautiful, basically flawless soft-focus dance-pop dream "Born Again" finally gets some appropriate visuals, directed by Geoffrey Pugen, and starring Carmen Elle and other assorted psychedelic jungle dwellers. In other exciting news, DIANA's exceedingly lovely and timeless self-titled debut -- without question one of the year's best -- is out August 20 on Jagjaguwar + on Paper Ba