Bit Lip, the newest punk band out of Moncton, may have made a quiet debut at the end of August, but their album is anything but. The self-titled release came out August 31st, 2017 and we’ve been dancing to it ever since. Continue reading New Music: Bit Lip Self-Titled Release
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New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’
Talk about hooks. Mo Kenney’s third album, The Details, grabs us with the tragic tale of woe and heartbreak and the impending doom of a cat. “I know you’ll try/ to take the bigger side/ but a cat’s not a cake.” Inside the first 35 seconds of the album we’re taken through this whirlwind of emotion, across what is essentially a sweet song, subjected to atrocities, and left in tears by our own tragic appreciation of dark humour. Just like that, we are hooked for whatever Mo Kenney wants us to hear for the next half hour. Continue reading New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’
New Music: Julie & The Wrong Guys Release Self-Titled Album
Julie & The Wrong Guys is east coast legend Julie Doiron’s most recent project. The Eric’s Trip alumna has teamed up with indie folk rocker Eamon McGrath, and Mike Peters and Jaye Schwarzer of Toronto-based hardcore band, Cancerbats, to form Julie & The Wrong Guys. On September 9th, they released their first full album: the self-titled Julie & The Wrong Guys. Continue reading New Music: Julie & The Wrong Guys Release Self-Titled Album
New Music: Scott Royle Releases ‘Tennis Elbow’
It’s been two years since Scott Royle’s first two releases, Sweet Shop Crop Top and How To Break The Horse. Both releases came out within two months of each other in the first half of 2015, the former a beefy EP, and the latter something of a coda. How To Break The Horse feels like an afterthought, a post script on just a few more things worth mentioning by-the-way. Comparitively, Royle’s new full-length album, Tennis Elbow, shows the difference two years can make. Continue reading New Music: Scott Royle Releases ‘Tennis Elbow’
New Music: Botfly Releases Self-Titled Album
Heavy, droning and seeded with aggressive, gravelly growls, Botfly has a deceptively metal flavour. Hailing from Halifax, the noise-rock trio consisting of Keegan Goodspeed (vocals/guitar), Sean McInnis (bass) and Dewayne Shanks (drums) started out in 2013 and released a series of singles/EPs before unleashing their self-titled, debut LP. A cliche headbanger/mosh pit-inducing anti-melody, this album is not. More akin — on an emotional level — to shoegaze, this is an atmospheric soundscape that requests an investment of time from its listeners. Continue reading New Music: Botfly Releases Self-Titled Album