Shout out to Nyck + Mich for the heads up on Flore Laurentienne, the new orchestral synth project of Quebec's Mathieu David Gagnon, accompanied on his stunning debut Volume 1 by a cast of talented Montreal musicians on strings. That dope pseudonym was seemingly taken from an important 1935 botanical record that took inventory for the first time of southern Quebec’s diverse flora, and it was an ins
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
MUNYA follows up her stellar and eminently charming EP compilation from earlier this spring, as she ushers in a welcome summer breeze with her lovely new single "Dove". Josie wrote the warmly lilting gem for a mama dove that was nesting just outside her window, and it's a sweet serenade of classic French-language pop bathed in MUNYA's signature, dreamy soft-psych vibes...
Men I Trust continue to get us psyched for their forthcoming LP Oncle Jazz with this dreamily warped and woozy new one, "Norton Commander (All We Need)". Watch the video, starring Emma and the group's friend Lawrence Dickerson as they cruise around southern California in a dope old LeBaron convertible, below: