“After This” by July Talk

The new July Talk album is almost here. For what seems like months, the band has been teasing us on social media, culminating at a show last week at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, where they played the full album front-to-back. The next day they released not one, not two, but three brand new songs from the upcoming album, Remember Never Before.

“After This” opens the album, and the Kevin Drew-produced song is exactly the banger you would expect from the band.

Check out the video for it song below, and click here for the other two songs, “Certain Father” (which features Spencer Krug!) and “Hold”.

Kirk

“Lighthouse in Little Lorraine” by Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin is one of my favourite songwriters particularly because of his ability to tell a story with his music.
”Lighthouse in Little Lorraine” from his newly released album Concertos & Serenades, is another brilliant example of his talent.
The song is about out of work fishermen and what they turned to in desperate times. I’ll leave the description at that, because the music video that was directed by award-winner Andy Hines, does a beautiful job to match the song. Oh, and I did a double take when I realized Greg Thomey of This Hour Has 22 Minutes fame is in it!

Baldwin will be in Vancouver at the Fox Cabaret on November 8th.

Christine

“My People” by The Beaches

The Beaches have been coming out with banger after banger this year, and the new track “My People” is another one.
About being young and broke in Toronto, and what they do to scrape by, the new track has driving drums and a killer bass line.
Accompanying the song is a live video from their hometown show at History in Toronto - which is full of the energy The Beaches are known for. Oh, and for something totally random but fun, the band is going to appear on this season of Top Chef Canada!

Christine

“All Roads” by Dan Mangan

I know what you’re thinking, and no; the new Dan Mangan song is not a cover of the Arkells hit “All Roads”. And not only is it not a cover, but Dan even joked that the two songs are about as tonally opposite as you can get.

Dan’s “All Roads” is a floaty indie-rock track about Mangan’s philosophical reflection ‘the thing I thought that was in the way, well it was the way’. He goes on to explain: “It’s absurd and beautiful how much consideration and yearning we place into a life so fleeting. In a billion years, it’s all just space dust. No John Lennon, no Oprah. Relativity is infinite, and we are infinitesimal. And yet, in the here and now, how could anything matter more? This song is about being emancipated by the beautiful humility of littleness.”

“All Roads” is the fourth song released off his upcoming album, Being Somewhere, which you can pick up at the end of the month, October 28th. Or if you want even more Dan Mangan Content, you can subscribe to his recently launched substack called Reality Shield, where you can find demos, AMAs, essays, and live show recordings.

Kirk