50 miles off the coast of mainland British Columbia, you’ll find Haida Gwaii. This collection of islands serves as home to just shy of 5,000 residents who all contribute to its quiet magic. Seemingly removed from the rest of the world yet intrinsically connected to its rawest essence, Carsen Gray calls this place home.  Born…

Few album themes are as universal as heartbreak, but Montreal goth-folk singer/songwriter Flower Face (Ruby McKinnon) has reinvented the form on her utterly raw, beautifully bittersweet new project, Girl Prometheus. Even better, heartbreak has propelled Ruby into a new, prolific phase of creativity; Girl Prometheus is only the beginning.   Following 2022’s critically acclaimed The…

Part of growing into adulthood means tearing down and reconstructing your narrative. This is what the Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based performer Abby Sage has done on her striking, intensely personal debut album, The Rot, via Nettwerk. It’s a lush, layered alternative pop gem where Abby’s silky vocals kaleidoscopically twirl overtop dreamy synth-and-guitar melodies. Plunging new emotional depths, Abby uses The Rot as a…

Foreign Air broke onto the scene with their glitchy, spectral single “Free Animal,” which became an immediate hit and sync darling with Nike, Samsung, Vodafone, Microsoft,  Showtime, ABC, and Vice all using the track. In October 2020, they released their debut album, Good Morning Stranger, followed by their 2022 sophomore album, Hello Sunshine, which featured…

Veterans of the New York underground scene, the four members of altopalo – lead singer Rahm Silverglade, guitarist Mike Haldeman, bassist Jesse Bielenberg and drummer Dillon Treacy – disintegrate the boundaries of genre, folding in elements of R&B, electronica, ambient and jazz through their deconstructionist approach to guitar-driven music reminiscent of artists such as Bon Iver, Moses Sumney and Black Midi. altopalo have come a long way…

Fallen Roses is a platinum Latin duo of music producers Donovan Ferra aka Donovan’s Playground (from Puebla, Mexico) & Ruben Reinoso aka B dom (from Santiago, Chile). Donovan & Ruben take influences from jazz, RNB, hip hop, classical music, IDM, future garage, ambient, lo-fi, house and many other genres to craft their unique beats, pushing…

Fletcher Reed, the nom de plume of American music producer Andrew Smith, grew up learning various instruments and playing in different bands at an early age. A few years back, he and a friend took off for Zimbabwe, their first destination on what would become a mostly non-stop journey across several continents for two years. While…

Since releasing his 2022 debut album, Ritual, Bay Ledges has garnered over 100 million streams worldwide and received praise from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Under The Radar, and Flood. Partly written in response to the death of several family members of singer/songwriter/producer Zach Hurd, his latest album, Rivers, is an enthralling reflection on love, loss, and change.  Referring to two distinct…

A performance pseudonym of experimental musician Roger Sellers, Bayonne incorporates voice, synths, looping, effects, acoustic percussion, and more into his ultra-layered, textured songs. After releasing a handful of albums under his own name in the early 2010s that explored an electro-acoustic avant-folk, Sellers started going by Bayonne for his more electronics-based work.  A native of…

The all or nothing attitude is a pervasive impulse among humans. We latch onto false dichotomies to grasp the complexity that surrounds us — natural vs artificial, analog vs digital. But on his debut EP, A Beautiful Start, artist Reid Jenkins diverges from this tendency and joyfully explores the medley of emotions and influences that…