★We Are Busy Bodies
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In a digital timespace stalked by the shifting and pixelating apex predator of Desire Optimization, fling ii has decided that a humble american neokrautrock n-gon of various part time participants lacks the resourcing and relevant domain knowledge to…
Double On Time
*300 copies limited edition* For the past 30 years, Toronto's Picastro has been evolving an intense and idiosyncratic variant of indie rock songcraft, embracing unique instrumentation, unsettling dissonance, and an ultra-personal approach to form and…
kitsune no yomeiri
*300 copies limited edition* Kitsune No Yomeiri, which translates to the fox’s wedding, is an endearing expression used to describe sunshowers. Dawson returned home from a recent tour of Japan with a collection of field recordings documenting the spr…
Long Slow Distance
*300 copies limited edition* Long Slow Distance is an album about finding peace, and making peace where it can’t be found. It’s inspired by change, grief, acceptance, forgiveness, love, and running. Dawson began running around the same time he starte…
Iron
Originally released in 2000, Iron grew out of Pavlov's teenage fascination with heavy metal and the underground record-exchanging community of the late Soviet era. At fourteen, inspired by Iron Maiden's “Running Free,” he picked up a six-string guita…
Winterglare
Suspended somewhere between stillness and movement, Winterglare explores the fragile moments that exist beneath the surface: frozen landscapes, distant memories, quiet isolation, and the sudden brilliance of light reflected through the cold. The albu…
You Never Were Much Of A Dancer
When I was about eight years old a pretty formative thing happened to me ... my mum bought me a cassette tape of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Being so young I'd had no real interest in music prior to that, but I did have a ‘My First Sony’ cassette player tha…
Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
Welsh musician Gwenifer Raymond’s 2018 debut album, You Never Were Much of a Dancer, introduced a new voice on acoustic guitar, receiving 5 stars in The Guardian, big spreads in MOJO and UNCUT, and airplay on multiple BBC programmes. This led to mont…
Risky
*200 copies limited edition* Toronto’s shape-shifting psych project Lammping continues its ambitious four-album series with the upcoming LP — a lush, immersive collaboration between Drew Smith (Dr. Ew, The Bicycles) and Chris Cummings (Marker Starlin…
1001 Est Cremazie
On 1001 Est Crémazie, the self‑titled orchestra of middle‑schoolers and Cégep staff capture the exuberant birth of modern Quebec: raw jazz‑rock, DIY tape lore and Quiet Revolution aftershocks pressed into one unlikely, fiercely alive school‑band arte…
Who's Gonna Buy?
Who’s Gonna Buy? by The Lemon Dips is a shadow‑streaked 1969 relic of UK library psych, where fuzz garage, freakbeat hooks and eerie cues for film and TV collide into a strangely compelling, collector‑beloved ghost of the De Wolfe catalog.
Guitar, Solo
On Guitar, Solo, Michael Scott Dawson distills his tender ambient language to its essence: frayed guitar melodies, soft tape ghosts and pastoral field recordings breathing in unison on a Japan‑toured sister album to Music For Listening.
Closed for the Festival
On Closed For The Festival, MIDI Janitor turns childhood memories of a Donegal Christian commune into warped, luminous hauntology: junkyard beats, dream‑logic electronics and uncanny “thin places” where pastoral bliss slips into quietly sinister wond…
Uchuu
On Uchuu, Oowets drifts into their most abstract work yet, blending tapped cloth boxes, reed organ warmth and bedside field recordings into a gentle, cosmic meditation where minimal rhythms and environmental sounds merge science and nature into a sin…
Live at WFMU (LP)
Gwenifer Live at WFMU was recorded on December 8th, at the tail end of Gwenifer Raymond's December North American tour dates. This session captures Gwenifer Raymond performing a stark, spellbinding selection of songs drawn from her critically acclaim…
Live at Gold Standard
Orbital Ensemble returns with Live at Gold Standard, a six-track EP recorded live off the floor at Gold Standard Recorders. The session captures the full chemistry of the ensemble’s Toronto-based lineup: Jon Catanus, May Akanuma, Racha Moukalled, Art…
Blackpool Cool
Head’s Blackpool Cool was self-released in 1977 on the band’s own Head Records, marking the Scottish group’s third and final album. Long prized by collectors, it stands as a distinctive entry in UK jazz-rock and fusion, driven by an inventive interpl…
The Birds of Marsville
The Birds of Marsville, the seventeenth album from Friendly Rich, is a whimsical and experimental sound guide to 76 imaginary birds inhabiting the fictional island of Marsville. Featuring orchestrion, chamber ensemble, and a playful mix of genres, th…
Suns of the Heart
Suns of the Heart, the sixth solo album from Colin Fisher, unfurls a suite of intricate, emotionally charged improvisations that blend treated guitar, elemental electronics, and gestural samples. Across six movements, Fisher crafts an enveloping soun…
Mirante
Mirante, the ninth album by Nick Storring, is an impressionistic, multi-instrumental homage to Brazil. Across seven movement-rich tracks, Storring weaves liquid ambient textures, intricate rhythms, and a panoply of both Brazilian and experimental inf…