A private journey through hidden textures and strange syncopations, “Underneath My Toe” is the softly-adventurous, delicately-bold newest single from Toronto’s Bernice. The band’s Cruisin’ LP will be released by their hometown’s Telephone Explosion Records on April 23rd, and you can pre-order coke-bottle-blue-vinyl, black-vinyl and digital versions from Bandcamp today.
Associative, honest and autobiographical, “Yards” is the electric, elegiac brand-new single from Toronto’s Casper Skulls. Out care of their hometown’s Next Door Records, you can stream it now, and it’s also available from Bandcamp.
A riverside reverie, “La cascade” is the lucid, gently-picked and richly-sung new single from Toronto’s Abigail Lapell. You can find streaming links for it right here, and it is also on Bandcamp along with physical versions of the Stolen Time LP that she released in April through Outside Music.
Floating Through The Wonderwave is the psychedelic title of the forthcoming album from Toronto’s Maddy Wilde and her band Rapport, and from it you can hear “Going Nowhere” — curved in chrome, Olivia Newton-John inspired and sleek. The six-track release is out on July 8th, and you can pre-order digital versions both from Arbutus Records and Bandcamp today.
Understated but as strong as iron, it’s made, sung and played with respect, toughness and a tangible, resonating love. Toronto’s Bria has covered Waylon’s eternal “Dreaming My Dreams With You”, it sounds incredible, and it’s taken from the forthcoming Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 EP. Out from September 24th, you can pre-order vinyl, CD, cassette and digital editions of it both from Bandcamp and Sub Pop right now.
Ardent in lambent light, “Save My Heart” concludes with a sympathetic drama Save Our Hearts, the latest LP from Toronto’s Madisyn Whajne. Its grand, just-released video underscores the track’s impressive panoramas. You can buy vinyl and digital versions of the album right now from her Bandcamp page.
Toronto’s Madisyn Whajne is a member of the Whitefish River First Nation, and “Killing Desire” with its surging, chiming retro-charm is taken from her brand-new LP Save Our Hearts. You can buy digital and vinyl editions of it now from her Bandcamp page.
The Autumn Roses 