The Weather Station has unveiled a video for ‘Floodplain’, taken from her magnificient third album, Loyalty. Directed by Maya Bankoviche, the video was shot in Canada and also in Australia. “Instead of singing the song for the camera, I thought it”, said Tamara Lindeman, the incredibly talented singer/songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist behind The Weather Station. Here’s the video.
Loyalty is out now in the US and Europe via Paradise of Bachelors and in Canada via Outside Music.
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Esmerine share video for ‘The Neighbourhoods Rise’
Montreal’s chamber rock ensemble Esmerine have shared their new video for ‘The Neighbourhoods Rise’, the monumental opening track off their album Lost Voices, released last October. The video was made by Clyde Henry. Watch it below.
Lost Voices is out now via Constellation.
Watch Fresh Snow’s video for ‘King Twink Rides Again’
Photo: Yosh Cooper
Toronto’s four-piece Fresh Snow released their tremendous Won EP last September and we just can’t put it down. One of the EP’s strikingly spectacular tracks, ‘King Twink Rides Again’, is being offered with a video directed by Craig Orrett/Sturdy Films. Watch it now.
Won is out now via Hand Drawn Dracula.
SFJAZZ Collective’s new double album Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions arrives next week
A year on from the release of Live: SFJAZZ Center 2014, The Music of Joe Henderson and New Compositions, SFJAZZ Collective are ready to unveil a new album next week.
Each year, the collective celebrate the music of a modern jazz master with each one of its eight members arranging a composition as well as writing new pieces. Their upcoming effort, Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions, sees them paying homage to the music of the King of Pop.
Recorded live at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco last October, the upcoming 2-disc set features new arrangements of Michael Jackson classics including ‘Thriller’, ‘Smooth Criminal’, ‘Human Nature’ and ‘This Place Hotel’ amongst others, as well as eight new original compositions by the ensemble. Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions is out on March 4th exclusively through SFJAZZ. Ahead of it, and to get us in the swing of things, the band have let loose pianist/keyboardist Ed Simon’s groovy arrangement of Michael Jackson’s ‘This Place Hotel’, originally recorded with The Jacksons in 1980. Give it a listen now.
United Sounds of Joy unveil video for ‘I Hear Her Call My Name’ off forthcoming debut album
The long awaited self-titled debut album from United Sounds of Joy arrives this Friday through Bronzerat. Former Dream City Film Club collaborators Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald, who make up the outfit, first grabbed our ears last summer with the wonderful and velvety ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star’. With the album’s imminent release rapidly approaching, the pair have unveiled the beautiful and ethereal second single ‘I Hear Her Call My Name’, and they are offering it with a self-directed video. Watch it below and let your ears wrap around these sumptuous sounds.
Members of Mogwai, Slowdive and Editors form Minor Victories, announce debut album
There’s a new supergroup on the block comprising Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Editors’ Justin Lockey and his brother James. Under the name Minor Victories, the four-piece will be releasing their eponymous debut album on June 3rd via Fat Possum Records. Initially formed as the solo project of Justin “to create an extreme noise EP topped off by a delicate female vocals”, Minor Victories turned into a collaboration with the four members creating and sharing ideas and music back and forth from different places. “The freedom and immediacy in this exchanging of ideas – plus the fact that all four members have barely spent any time together recording or writing – only adds to the heart of the project”, explains the press release. “This unusual process, combined with the members’ wide spectrum of musical tastes converging, ultimately led to something beyond the original vision of any of the contributors that pushes new boundaries and new sounds into uncharted waters”.
Ahead of the album’s release, Minor Victories have shared the first single ‘A Hundred Ropes’. The track comes with a video filmed by the Lockey brothers’ Hand Held Cine Club. Here it is.
