Posts by Joseph Lo

Toronto-based composer Alaskan Tapes AKA Brady Kendall shares his new ambient, post-rock album, For Us Alone. The record will be his fifth outing and follows his 2019 full-length Views From Sixteen Stories. He elaborates, “’On For Us Alone’ there is a simple concept: I wanted to continue the sound I was going for on ‘Views From Sixteen Stories’ and make the…

Jaguar Jonze makes music for the moment of implosion. There’s no delay, there’s no need for it. Her music constantly occupies two spaces: one calling us in, lulling with its majestic, eternally frank beauty, the second unafraid to cut us right down to the quick, harshly slicing into our most vulnerable thoughts and feelings. The…

Ahead of his debut album release Nicotine Bunker on May 28th the Swedish-Icelandic singer-songwriter Freyr today shares his new instrumental single ”Departure.” On his debut full-length he imbues the sights, sounds and feelings of his journey into eight beautiful tracks, pre-save here. The new single ”Departure” captures one´s imagination with mesmerizing nylon-stringed guitar picking, some…

Today, internationally acclaimed folk artist Graeme James releases his Spring-themed EP, A Sea of Infinite Possibilities. Graeme says, “Following on from ‘The Weight of Many Winters,’ an intense EP exploring death and despair, my Spring EP is an exuberant celebration of life and all of its joys. As the days start to lengthen again and…

Montreal based indie collective The Franklin Electric share their latest single “Greatest Love of All.” “It’s a song about searching for the greatest love of all while swimming in a world of infinite possibilities,” say JUNO nominated frontman Jon Matte. “It seems we get lost in the ocean of options and opportunity, as that search somehow…

Australian band Vacations are going viral for the 2nd time in a year with their song “Young” from their debut EP Vibes, this time with the TikTok knock trend. This past week alone musicians like Lizzo, Rosalía, Tomorrow X Together and TikTok influencers like Noah Beck, Bella Poarch, Anna Shumate, Sienna Mae, Brooke Ashley Hall, Jackson Dean and more jumped on board along with over 120K others. The nine…

Receptive to even the most subtle internal and external stimuli, Amsterdam-based singer and songwriter Nina June leans into acute sensitivity as a lyricist and embraces expansive scope as a sonic auteur on her upcoming EP Side A – Our Garden (out June 25 via Nettwerk Records). “I’m a singer, I’m a creator, I’m an optimist, I’m highly sensitive, I’m super emotional, and…

Today, London-based artist Tom Speight releases ”Soak Up” the second single taken from his forthcoming album, Everything’s Waiting For You, which will be released on September 24, 2021 via Nettwerk Records. “Soak Up” delivers Tom’s familiar acoustic folk element, along with a bigger sonic palette with using more guitars, piano & gang vocals! On the track, Tom says – “‘Soak Up’ was written…

Today, Australian electro-folk singer-songwriter and producer Hayden Calnin shares his hymn-infused indie folk single “We Got Gods to Blame.” The accompanying video was directed by Hayden and takes the viewer through back alleys and warehouse spaces filled with choreographed modern dancers empowered by the music. Hayden explains the inspiration for the song, “If this song were an article in…

At long last, cehryl’s time machine EP arrives today via Nettwerk. Leading up to the announcement included videos for “outside the party, inside the dream” and “philadelphia.” With “paprika,” cehryl’s sentimental crooning takes on a less rose-colored view of the past. “Here I stand / There we stood” gently but firmly uproots her from the way things once were.…