Speak No More of This is the new intercontinental split from Saint John, New Brunswick-based Artifiseer, and Hamburg, Germany’s I Divorced Life. Despite the distance, the collaboration is a natural one and a testament to the magical connective nature of the internet. While Artifiseer and I Divorced Life have spanned an ocean to find common ground in music, the release is like nothing else around — perhaps in either country. Continue reading Saint John’s Artifiseer Splits ‘Speak No More Of This’ EP with Hamburg’s I Divorced Life
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Cyrus R.O. Reflects on Mortality and the Inevitability of it All on ‘Defect’
You Are An Island and So Am I, the latest album from Cyrus R.O., spent a lot of time digging into the artist’s catalogue of previously unreleased music. Where included songs that were written years apart, the amount of time spanned on the release gave us a glimpse into his evolution as a musician, and in some cases, lays bare old wounds that give us a better sense of Cyrus’s personal history.
“Defect,” in particular, was inspired by a personal epiphany during a dark moment in high school, when the death of one of Cyrus’s peers brought his own mortality into sharp focus. Continue reading Cyrus R.O. Reflects on Mortality and the Inevitability of it All on ‘Defect’
The Tom Fun Orchestra Release ‘I’m Your Man’ – First Original Recording in Almost a Decade
Some things are worth the wait, and if Cape Breton’s The Tom Fun Orchestra required the last nine years to percolate their first recording of original music in all the time, then that’s exactly how long it took. It all seems to be worth it when hearing the results on “I’m Your Man.” Continue reading The Tom Fun Orchestra Release ‘I’m Your Man’ – First Original Recording in Almost a Decade
Jaclyn Reinhart Talks About ‘Rearview’ and How It Nearly Meant Leaving the Music Industry Behind
Since Jaclyn Reinhart last released any music, her life and her sound have both undergone some drastic changes. Trading in her pop-rock style from the Americana of her heroes Tom Petty and Sheryl Crowe, “Rearview” is about recognizing when the time has come to put your past behind you and move on with something new in your life.
For Reinhart, however, it proved to be a close call as to what she was putting behind her and it was very nearly her music career that got left behind. Continue reading Jaclyn Reinhart Talks About ‘Rearview’ and How It Nearly Meant Leaving the Music Industry Behind
Ursa Bright’s Isaac Marr Goes Dark on Solo Efforts ‘Funeral’ and ‘Inheritance’
Isaac Marr adds his name to the list of musicians who, over the course of the last two years, having found themselves at the receiving end of a global, industry-shifting curveball, took matters into his own hands. He has released a pair of singles—”Funeral” and “Inheritance”—that have been crafted in the depths of a lockdown, both produced and mixed by bandmate AJ Boutilier (Ursa Bright, Designosaur, Book Buddies).
Unsurprisingly, as can be guessed from their titles, these depths are pretty dark. Continue reading Ursa Bright’s Isaac Marr Goes Dark on Solo Efforts ‘Funeral’ and ‘Inheritance’