September 10, 2018—Last month we released the Joel Plaskett-produced new single from Sleepless Nights and now there’s an insane green screen video set in space to accompany the song. – Watch via Pop Matters – “Canada’s Sleepless Nights offer a new single, “Kids on Drugs”, that could be the easy-to-sing hit of the late summer.” – Pop Matters The band will perform one lone show this fall: October 13…
September 3, 2018—Plurality Trip, the sophomore LP from Nova Scotia’s JOYFULTALK, is now out via Constellation Records and has been getting a VERY warm reception. “The richness of ideas, and the unique sounds that Joyfultalk awaken with their music displays the extensive capabilities of Crocker and Dicey. Through Plurality Trip the duo manages to create an album that stretches between genres, creating connective tissue to build its own distinct…
August 27, 2018—Celebrated radio host Laurie Brown will bring her Pondercast podcast to Nova Scotia for three live tapings this fall. After 10 years of hosting the much-loved late night radio show The Signal on CBC Radio 2, Laurie embarked into the podcast. Still telling stories of the night, of our secret hopes and fears, Laurie ponders what it means to stay human…
August 24, 2018—JOYFULTALK is excited to share a new video for the track “Kill Scene” via The Quietus. Crafted by visual artist Paul Henderson, it explores themes of memory, violence, and social authority through a hazy array of lo-res footage sourced from the depths of the open source internet archives. Henderson’s video collage proves to be an ideal match for the track’s woozy synths…
August 1, 2018—Goddamit. The more things change, the more they stay the same. For nearly fifteen years A.A. Wallace has been releasing music with an outfit called Sleepless Nights. Approaching the ten-year anniversary of their breakout EP, Hang Up, Sleepless Nights reconvened for the release of Keith Hamilton in 2017 – a brand new recording that captured a set of songs from the…
July 27, 2018—This summer Paper Beat Scissors has been back and forth across Canada performing at festivals, in cemeteries, and as Freddie Mercury. It was while touring around Europe this spring that Tim Crabtree got into the habit of playing an old Annie Lennox song, and while in Utrecht he caught up with the folks at Here on…
June 26, 2018—The second single from JOYFULTALK‘s new album Plurality Trip, ‘Kill Scene’ combines layers of modded synths and homemade electronics into a gem of a track that’s equal parts new age bliss and forward-thinking experimentation. Starting with a subtle, pulsating beat that builds into a rich landscape of drifting rhythms and insistent melodies, it’s a deeply immersive and…
June 26, 2018—It’s been over 5 years since The Olympic Symphonium performed proper shows in Newfoundland, then as part of the Lawnya Vawnya festival, and we’re very pleased to announce their return in late July. The quartet will perform three shows on the East Coast of the island – in Mount Pearl as part of a free…
May 25, 2018—There is a clichéd way to say anything worth saying, so Michael Feuerstack simply looks for the scenic route and tries to enjoy the journey at the same time. On his latest full-length album, Natural Weather, the songwriter wanted to make something gentle and complex: a recording that celebrates music as a refuge from binary…
May 17, 2018—The sonic landscapes conjured by JOYFULTALK reflect a curiosity; a tinkered lightfield of forward motion, a maniac’s grove. The brainchild of composer and instrument builder Jay Crocker, JOYFULTALK is without a doubt the most forward-thinking musical act to emerge from the rural outpost of Crousetown, Nova Scotia. Along with fellow Calgary transplant and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Dicey (Ox, Lab Coast), JOYFULTALK…
May 17, 2018—The third single from Michael Feuerstack‘s upcoming fourth LP Natural Weather (out May 25) comes to us with an absolutely stunning animation by artist Jon Claytor. CBC Music premiered the video earlier this week and had this to say about the song: “Michael Feuerstack’s songwriting has a horoscope-like quality, crafting minute observations on love, death and living that are opaque…
May 17, 2018—“A lot of recent synth-based artists opt for maximalism, throwing as many sounds and textures into the mix as they can for both variety’s sake and to show off their gear a bit. Montreal-based artist Nick Schofield took the opposite route on his forthcoming album, using only one synthesizer, one effects pedal and a batch of field recordings he…
April 11, 2018—We’re so pleased to announce that JOYFULTALK has joined the incredible roster of artists at Constellation Records, who will release the band’s sophomore album later this year. The brainchild of instrument builder and jazz-fried alchemist Jay Crocker, JOYFULTALK offer up new concepts on regionalism and conjure micro-climate trance music. Admittedly influenced by the craggy treelines and flowing…
April 11, 2018—The Olympic Symphonium have shared the video of their performance of “Choral Voices” from the Shivering Songs festival, which premiered earlier this week via Spill Magazine. “That room was built for choral music and all though we aren’t a choir, we sure felt like it in such a grand, hollow space,” says member Graeme Walker. – Watch the…
March 29, 2018—Celebrated songwriter Michael Feuerstack releases his new album, Natural Weather, on May 25, 2018. Watch a video for the debut single, “Nobody Knows,” premiering exclusively via German outlet Intro Magazin by clicking HERE. Recorded at home, Natural Weather offers a deceptively rich palette. Most of the instrumentation is provided by Feuerstack, with Jeremy Gara (Arcade…
March 9, 2018—Paper Beat Scissors’ new release features arrangements that bandleader Tim Crabtree wrote during a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada’s Rocky Mountains in the winter of 2016. The album tracks span the whole 10-year catalogue and include 3 brand new songs. As Crabtree explains: “Live at La Sala Rossa is a very very quiet record in places,…
February 9, 2018—Last winter, the four members of The Olympic Symphonium travelled to the Old Confidence Lodge studio in Riverport, Nova Scotia to focus on capturing 13 new compositions. Working long days with the help and stamina of engineer Diego Medina, the band laid down this batch of songs and enlisted the help of several friends to sing harmony, play drums, strings, and…
January 31, 2018—We’re very happy to welcome Motherhood into the Forward Music Group management roster. After a standout year that saw them perform at festivals across Canada, with an orchestra, with a middle-school kids choir, and alongside both The Sadies and Timber Timbre, the New Brunswick trio have just announced a month-long North American tour that includes their first…
January 23, 2018—“beautiful, smooth…CBC can playlist this now.” – Eric Alper Come cry with The Olympic Symphonium in their official video for “Comedy”, the third single from their forthcoming album, Beauty In The Tension, out February 9. The song revolves around the idea of political correctness. What is acceptable to say to someone? What’s not? Is that…