As if we weren’t excited enough about Suuns‘ upcoming third album, Hold/Still, and following their excellent and driving first single ‘Translate’, the Montreal quartet have teased the album again. ‘Paralyzer’ is the second spectacular single to be let loose, and it comes with an accompanying video directed by Charles-André Coderre. The video is also the second to emerge from a trilogy of videos, with the third and final instalment set to drop ahead of the album’s release. What’s more, ‘Paralyzer’ has also been given the remix treatment by VRIL. Check out the video and the remix below and watch out for the release of Hold/Still on April 15th through Secret City in Canada and Secretly Canadian in the rest of the world.
Three Trapped Tigers unleash interactive video for new cut ‘Engrams’
With less than a month to go until the release of Three Trapped Tigers‘ highly anticipated somophore album, Silent Earthling, they’ve shared a new track, ‘Engrams’, in the form of an interactive video made by Chris Boyle. In the video, Boyle created a new dimension bringing the album’s artwork to life. Here’s what he had to say about the effort:
“The user is translocated to a sinclair-esque metavoid inspired by the seminal work of Dr. Lawrence Angelo but better encapsulated by unicode symbol U+1F611 and the theatre of the macabre, from which it takes both the dance and accent. In a technically unreal sense it holds up a mirror to the viewer to create a mute terrestrial post-simian character.”
Head over to the album’s website to experience the absolute glorious beast of a song that is ‘Engrams’ in its interactive version. And if you just can’t wait, the regular video is below. Press play already and grab Silent Earthling when it drops on April 1st via Superball Music.
Watch The Weather Station’s new video for ‘Floodplain’
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.
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.
