canada
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Preoccupations taking a chance on a shoegazier sound is a step in the right direction. Arrangements by Preoccupations
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Technical death metal outfit Gorguts is following up its fantastic 2013 album Colored Sands (review) with an EP called Pleiades’ Dust on May 13 via Season of Mist. Here’s a segment of its long, lone composition.
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Ideation Deluxe by Graham Kartna A fun little set of MIDI arrangements from Toronto composer and video maker Graham Kartna, out via Beer on the Rug.
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Ulvesang by Ulvesang The mesmerizing debut album from Canadian darkfolk trio Ulvesang.
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Here’s an official stream for Behold.Total.Rejection, the new album from Canadian war metal group Revenge, out November 13 via Underground Activists.
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Ontario singer-songwriter Nicole Dollanganger continues balancing the ethereal and the uncanny on new single “Angels of Porn II,” which you can check out above along with its video depicting a group of bikers’ ice cream get-together. The track appears on Dollanganger’s forthcoming record Natural Born Losers, out October 9
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CHORUS! CHORUS! CHORUS! by Gregory Pepper & His Problems Ontario singer-songwriter Gregory Pepper delivers a series of power pop vignettes on Chorus! Chorus! Chorus!, out now via Fake Four. You can tell from the name of his band that this is problematic stuff, so listen above at your own discretion.
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10-23 by Open Letters Vancouver’s Open Letters serves up some madcap pop punk on new album 10-23, out August 14 via Kingfisher Bluez. Listen above and enjoy!
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Toronto psych-pop singer-songwriter Slim Twig has a new album called Thank You for Stickin’ with Twig out August 7 via DFA. He recently revealed the opening track with the above video and yeah, it’s a real trip. Enjoy!
