Tagged: Canada

Fresh Picks: Scenic Route To Alaska.

Scenic Route To Alaska – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Scenic Route To Alaska are a band creating what essentially equates to Pop and Indie music with substance and that isn’t something easy to achieve in these auto-tuned times. The band take Country-esque vocals and guitar-tones but add...

Apostoloi! – ‘Spread Terror’.

Apostoloi – Montreal, Quebec, Canada. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. A short fast Punk album with little-to-no messing around is sometimes what you need and with Montreal natives Apostoloi returning with their third effort, that is primarily what you are getting. The band combine British...

Thumbhole Records Return With ‘Tracks You Might Have Missed V2’.

Thumbhole Records – Your Ears, Right Now. For our previous work on the compilation – Click Here. Above can can find our article on the stellar UK underground Punk and Alternative label Thumbhole Records and their twenty track international compilation more than doing its best to showcase some of the...

Low Sun – ‘Reservoir Of Impermanent Bliss’.

Low Sun – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada is not the warmest of places a lot of the time and that is something that Toronto two-piece Low Sun a know all to well. What was supposed to be a idyllic winter retreat in a family cottage to record their first full-length...

Ghostly Beard and The ‘Infinite’ EP.

Ghostly Beard – Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal based and enigmatic Ghostly Beard gains brownie points for his name alone and the known but unknown way in which he operates. Patrick Talbot has taken to music later on life in lieu of regret at not doing such earlier. Mr. Talbot...

Trashed Ambulance and The ‘A Dime For Every Time’ EP.

Trashed Ambulance – Red Dear, Alberta, Canada. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. Thousand Islands Records have been steadily growing their roster since we reviewed their very first release in March 2016. You can find it – Here – and since then MF has featured more...

Elder Abuse – ‘Burnt’.

Elder Abuse – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. With perhaps some of my favourite and chaotic album artwork of the year, we have Burnt by Winnipeg four-piece Elder Abuse. My own and MF’s discovery of the record is two-fold as before I received an official email request, I was quite literally drunk and ordering...

Sage and The Debut ‘Procrastinate’ EP.

Sage – Cochrane, Ontario, Canada. As a herb, there is no apparent “good evidence’” that Sage has a beneficial impact on the brain. However, the best thing about this Sage, is that as a band, they’re from the same town as Tim Hortons. Now gee isn’t that a wonderful coincidence....

The Elusive and Abstract Cares and The ‘Coping Strategies’ EP.

Cares – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic Music, from it’s earliest beginnings to the present day, comes in a bewildering variety of forms, with sampling and synthesis opening up pathways for musicians that often simply aren’t possible in the analogue realm. What sets apart Cares latest EP, Coping Strategies, however, is it’s...

Midday Swim and The ‘Climbing Out Of Caves’ EP.

Midday Swim – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cover photo credit: Aboyning Photography – Click Here. Canada in my own opinion is an absolute Well of vibrant and diverse musical talent. You can find a link to all we have covered from the absolute expanse of a country – Here – but...