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Just a few months after dropping the album of the year, the brilliant and impossibly prolific UK collective SAULT is back with the astonishingly powerful and emotional sequel, UNTITLED (Rise)...

Montreal's Helena Deland stopped by CBC Music's First Play Live recently to play some selections from her series of songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" Vol. I-IV, as well as a goosebump-inducing performance of her 2016 masterpiece "Baby". I'd recommend my favorite but honestly each song is exquisite and you should watch the whole thing as soon as you can...

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...

While the four volumes of Helena Deland's From the Series of Songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" do not technically constitute a full-length album -- Helena says that the songs are "to be considered as their own little things," adding, "They are part of something larger, yes, but they live on their own" -- enough time spent with the series reveals an elegance and underst

In today's edition of "Checking in with Johnny Jewel": the prolific producer is still going strong (and being very generous) over on soundcloud. Today, he drops Glass Candy's cover of Herb Alpert's famously-sampled 1979 classic "Rise", along with a sweet story about the song's creation...