If it’s taken you this long to fully digest Joel Plaskett’s latest offering, you’d be excused. 44 is Plaskett’s most ambitious project to date, a collection of four full albums released just before his 45th birthday – Carried Away, Just Passing Through, If There’s Another Road, and The Window Inn. The project serves as a spiritual successor to Three, a similar release by Plaskett in 2009 which consisted of three albums. Continue reading New Music: Joel Plaskett Releases Four-Album Mega Project with ’44’
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Single: Joel Plaskett Kicks Off New Quadruple Album Release With ‘Head Over Heels Into Heaven’
With the sort of news you have re-read a few times to make sure you’ve got it right, Joel Plaskett announced today that he’d be releasing the conceptual follow-up to his JUNO-award triple record, Three, with 44, a quadruple record consisting of 11 songs each, recorded in 4 cities (Dartmouth, Memphis, Nashville and Toronto), crafted over the last 4 years with 33 musicians. Along with the news came the release of the first single, “Head Over Heels Into Heaven.” Continue reading Single: Joel Plaskett Kicks Off New Quadruple Album Release With ‘Head Over Heels Into Heaven’
Thrush Hermit: Joel Plaskett Reflects on 20 Years of ‘Clayton Park’
In 1999 three things happened that would shake the foundations of my world: my own personal (and, admittedly, late) discovery of Thrush Hermit, the release of their album Clayton Park, followed almost immediately by the near-simultaneous and heartbreaking announcement of the band’s dissolution.
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Jont Openheart Releases Single In Advance Of ‘An Old Innocence’
Despite the amount of music that passes across my desk, dance parties are few and far between around here. It’s just not the sort of thing we go in for all that often, and when they do happen it’s strictly an involuntary flailing of limbs. Jont & The Infinite Possibility have that quality of being infectiously dancy, and their new single is the stuff radio play dreams are made of. Continue reading Jont Openheart Releases Single In Advance Of ‘An Old Innocence’
New Music: Shotgun Jimmie’s ‘Field of Trampolines’
‘Field of Trampolines’ is Shotgun Jimmie’s summer anthem for the adventures of young twenty-somethings. Written on the tail-end of a summer-long Canadian tour and produced in a four-day recording stint by Nova Scotia’s own star, Joel Plaskett, the album echoes late night campfires, beach days, and road trips. Continue reading New Music: Shotgun Jimmie’s ‘Field of Trampolines’