“Gordon In The Willows” by Patrick Watson ft Charlotte Cardin

The piano on this track alone is amazing, but with the addition of Charlotte’s vocals - I got goosebumps!

Patrick Watson returns with another collaboration, this time with Charlotte Cardin, with whom he previously co-wrote a song with for her 2023 album.

His new album will be composed of song with different artists and I’m eagerly awaiting the news of it’s release date and who else will appear on it.

“Gordon In The Willows” is hauntingly beautiful with both the vocals and piano gradually building and it feels like it was written for a movie. Speaking of, the pair did a rendition of it on top of snowy Mont-Royal - which you can see a clip of by clicking here.

Christine

“On The Spot” by Two Hours Traffic

Earlier this year, Two Hours Traffic surprised everyone with a brand new song, and this week they’ve announced a new EP!

I Never See You Anymore comes over a decade after the Charlottetown group’s last album, Foolish Blood, and the announcement comes with another new single, “On The Spot”

The song is a slow burn, that singer Liam Corcoran says “was one of the first songs we started to work on once we decided that we'd write some new material. I wanted to go back to basics and write a high-energy song that would have fit into our sets back in the early 2000s. The acoustic guitar off the top, the driving rhythm section, lots of electric guitar hooks...as the song started to come together, it reminded us of the old days in an exciting way.”

Andy MacDonald adds, “Liam and I routinely exchange demos of songs we are working on, and when I first heard his demo for 'On The Spot' it reminded me, in a great way, of something that could have fit on the first Two Hours Traffic (self-titled) album. Once the full band started playing around with the song and Nick added the main guitar riff, it came together really quickly, which is often the sign of something special.”

Have a listen to the new tune below, and mark May 23rd for the release of I Never See You Anymore!

Kirk

“Get Paid” by CJ Wiley

This past Friday, CJ Wiley released their debut LP, So Brand New, and to celebrate shared the new single “Get Paid”,

Co-written with Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club) Wiley says the song takes “a tongue-in-cheek look at how expensive it is to be alive, reflecting my frustration with the relentless grind of life. It captures the feeling of being stuck in a society we’re sick of, enduring it for the sake of our loved ones, while knowing full well that we all deserve something much more meaningful.”

Check out the video, from Doran Brooks, and you can grab So Brand New now via Tiny Kingdom!

Kirk

“Silarjuaq” by Maya Cook

Multidisciplinary artist Maya Cook recently announced her debut album salt, and last week released the album’s second single, “Silarjuaq”.

The energetic song is a total earworm, and Maya explains the song was written “for a friend in Igloolik who was going through a hard time. It’s a song about how despite all the bad things that happen, and the harmful things we do to others and ourselves, the world is an incredibly beautiful place-because we are alive and get to exist in it together. Silarjuaq, meaning ‘the universe’ or ‘the world’ in Inuktitut, is a declaration of that, an ode to the heartbreaking beauty of being in this world.”

salt is set for release March 21 via Aakuluk Music, and you can have a listen to “Silarjuaq” below!

Kirk