Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Picture this: It’s a warm summer day, the nicest it’s been in weeks, but instead of kicking off your shoes and running through the grass you’ve locked yourself inside to complete a mundane task that somehow claims great authority over your life. You may not even have to imagine it, because it’s probably happening right now. But orchestral-pop group Patrick Watson is here to take you away from all of that.
Plants and Animals – The End of That
Don’t let the initial lethargic opening track (“Before”) of Plants and Animals’ third full-length, The End of That, fool you; their psych-rock jam band aesthetics are still intact but just more refined than ever. Rather, the trio of guitarist Nicolas Basque, drummer Matthew Woodley and singer/guitarist Warren Spicer eases the listener into the gooey centre of the record with a crescendo of tracks, light in musicality but still heavy in lyrical theme, something that successfully carries throughout the record. By the time “Lightshow” and centrepiece, “Crisis!” burst in, it’s less jarring and more of just a natural progression into familiar Plants and Animals territory; buzzing riffs, thumping rhythms and Spicer’s powerful and commanding voice.
Polica – Give You The Ghost
Channy Leaneagh’s venture into the reverberating sound of Poliça makes perfect sense. After splitting from Roma di Luna, the folk-rock outfit where she served as lead vocalist, Leaneagh embarked on a new creative path, this time channeling R&B. And while Leaneagh’s former band may have been concerned with making sense of things, Poliça’s debut album, Give You The Ghost, is more about escaping it all.
Grimes – Visions
Claire Boucher (Grimes) may describe her new album, Visions, as “the future of music,” but it’s an acute awareness of the past that’s helped shape her foresight. As the face of ‘post-internet,’ her sonic references range from gothic industrial to 90s R&B, infusing each track with a unique musicality that is all her own.
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