Happy Tuesday music lovers! As colder weather continues to settle in to cities and towns across the country, the music scene is starting to heat things up with new albums and new sounds galore.
Starting off today’s soundcheck is Great Lake Swimmers lead singer Tony Dekker and his solo album Prayer Of The Woods. Released today, October 8, the album is inherently intimate and features songs pulled together like some kind of love letter to the rustic Canadian geography. You can catch Dekker and The Great Lake Swimmer playing at the Halifax Pop Explosion. Check out the video below for Dekker’s song, “Prayer Of The Woods.”
Also released yesterday is a new digital EP from Jenn Grant’s sideproject Aqua Alta. The album, simply called 2, is a slight departure from Grant’s typical folksy, singer/songwriter sound and adds synths and more electronic sounds into the soundscape. Aqua Alta is expected to release a full length album sometime next year, but has promised to release a series of digital EPs while you wait. The band will also be making their live performance debut at the Halifax Pop Explosion later this month.
Last week, we told how Saskatoon folk band The Deep Dark Woods released a new album called Jubilee. Here’s a new video they are promoting, featuring the first single from that album, “Red, Red, Rose.”
Also, last week Sam Roberts let this little single slip from his upcoming album, Lo-Fantasy, set to release in 2014. The alt-pop tune features catchy guitar riffs, accentuated with a zesty rhythm section. Check out the single below.
Vancouver indie rocker Destroyer is set to release an EP called Five Spanish Songs on December 2. In an effort to give fans a taste of the Spanish guitar style inspired album, the first single “El Rito” was dropped yesterday.