On Est La!: Returning to Live Music in Northern Quebec with FME 2021
The 2021 lineup of Quebec’s Festival de Musique Emergente was simply dazzling, reflecting the breadth and quality of post-millennial Canadian music.
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Laser: Night Driver
Lisa Lobsinger has logged many hours with Broken Social Scene and is an excellent performer. Unfortunately, this collection doesn't find her living up to her full potential.
Those Gulls: Forevermore
Music worth hearing forevermore? Perhaps, perhaps.
The Gallop: Tall Tale Tellers EP
The alliterative Tall Tale Tellers EP is wall to wall with catchy, hummable songs.
STANDARDS: KID EP
You're not going to believe this, but a group of Canadian teenagers just made a confident and mature EP of '80s style alterna punk rock.
The Dirty Sheep: Sleep Under the Lights
While Sleep Under the Lights may not be the end all and be all of roots music, fans of this sort of thing should like it immensely.
wotts: a EP
This EP is perfect for anyone who wants to hear the style of ‘80s rap mixed with the thematic concerns of the present.
The BCASA: ‘Tis the Season to Praise Satan EP
I’ll bet you’ve never heard a Christmas album quite like this.
Blake Bliss: Friend, Enemy, Stranger
This album is so distraught and, I hate to say it, silly in its studied seriousness, that it’s what people might kick around as the punchline to a perverse joke.
Flying Fortress: Dirty Rain
If you like Japandroids but wish they played louder, harder and faster, Flying Fortress will certainly be the kind of thing to fix you up.
The Rickaneers: Ghost Town EP
From ‘60s garage to ‘70s glam to ‘90s grunge, the band distinctly has its own sound, and that can be heard on their sophomore EP, Ghost Town.
Just Poets: Painting Pictures in the Darkness
This Canadian rap album is stupendous, not just lyrically and stylistically in the vocal delivery, but in terms of what Just Poets do with their sampled material.