Songs of the Week: July 10 - 16, 2023
“Price You Pay” & “Hot City” by Bend Sinister
Crank the volume, because Bend Sinister is back! The band has been quiet for the last few years, but last week they released not one, but two brand new singles, “Price You Pay” and “Hot City”.
Both new songs are as soaring and high energy as you would expect from the Vancouver band, with “Price You Pay” about the highs and lows of touring, and “Hot City” feeling like a late-night-cruise summer jam.
No word yet on a new album, but if the pair of songs are any indication, I can’t wait to hear more.
Kirk
“Somebody Just Like Me”, “Second Time Around”
and “Working On My Guitar” by Bahamas
Not to upstage Bend Sinister above, but Bahamas released THREE songs this week, and not only that, but they’re from a country album!
“Somebody Just Like Me”, “Second Time Around” and “Working On My Guitar” all have Bahamas signature vocals with a little more twang, country style lyrics with some pedal steel behind them.
Bootcut will be out on September 15th and I cannot wait. Hopefully we hear a taste when he rolls through town next month for the Ambelside Music Festival.
Christine
“Just Shadows” by JEEN
There is just no stopping JEEN. The Toronto musician has put out three albums in as many years, and is already gearing up for her fourth, with the new single “Just Shadows”.
The fast-paced, grungy tune was written while JEEN was thinking “how the darker parts of everything can snuff out some of the best people's light. It’s about trying to get out from under it so we don’t just become casualties of our shittiest days. I lost all my demo projects for this upcoming album in a massive computer failure last year, so Ian suggested we just go in and jam the songs a bunch top to bottom and re-demo them before we started tracking for real. We had never done it that way for the previous albums; always just worked off my home demos as opposed to rehashing the songs prior with the full band. Anyway, it was super fun to go a little deeper on these songs at that early stage and I think the whole LP is better for it.”
The new album, Gold Control, is once again co-produced by her long-time collaborator, Canadian icon Ian Blurton, though no date yet for the upcoming album.
Kirk