Tag: Edmonton
Video: Cygnets – Day Seven
Edmonton’s DIY new-wave darlings Cygnets have put together another video for their raving fans. Exploring body-dysmorphia, obsession and various tongue-in-cheek goth-tropes. Directed and starring front-man Logan Turner, who only wears a t-shirt if it’s a v-neck with a prophetic slogan on it. Love it.
MP3: Happy Trendy – Wobbling Around (Frankie Cosmos cover)
Is this the return of Happy Trendy? That melancholy Edmonton electropper we love all too well? Really cool cover here of Frankie Cosmos, the original of which you can listen to here.
Remix: Jay Arner x Renny Wilson
Lady Pain (Jay Arner Remix)This day was bound to come. Possibly our two favourite artists from Western Canada, Jay Arner and Renny Wilson, combined into one glorious bit of sunny arpeggiation. Shouldn’t be a surprise though since both lads find themselves recently signed to Mint Records. Jay’s debut is coming out June 25 and the world is waiting!
MP3: Doug Hoyer – One Foot
Doug Hoyer – One Foot
Afro-beat synthy soul? Edmonton’s Doug Hoyer got some damn good shit! This is the first single released from his upcoming debut (?) album To Be a River, coming out at the end of the May 2013.
MP3: Shout Out Out Out Out – I Hope I Don’t Find Out
Edmonton synthesizer-rock behemoths Shout-Out-Out-Out-Out are releasing an EP of songs produced at the National Music Centre in Calgary. SO4 did an exclusive residency at the synthesizer museum, recording exclusively using instruments from their collection. Here’s a sneak peek of that output.
New Release: Various Artists – Taste of Savage
Majical Cloudz – Kisses Like A Girl (Sean Nicholas Savage cover)
Mozart’s Sister – Standing In A Line (Sean Nicholas Savage cover)
Everyone in the Canadian music community is aware of Sean Nicholas Savage‘s reputation as an incredible songwriter. He’s released ten-odd albums, each of which contains countless treasures, so it’s no surprise to see such luminaries as Doldrums, Majical Cloudz, Mac DeMarco, Pat Jordache, and so many more covering his tunes on this brand new compilation, available for free from Arbutus Records. Sean is set to release an important full-length in 2013, one that he’s been working on for over a year (a long time for him).
Silent Shout is presenting Sean’s performance at Double Double Land in Toronto on Feb 15, with performances from AGOR of Blue Hawaii and Sexy Merlin, and Cadence Weapon and Doldrums DJing.
This post also appeared on Berlin’s No Fear of Pop.
New Release: Ghibli – Clubs
Ghibli‘s new record is out today! The Edmonton artist has put together a compelling combination of sounds, a successful experiment combining Paradise Garage-era disco with Gustav Mahler. The results are a very inventive and immersive record: give Clubs a listen, streaming on Soundcloud.
MP3: Ghibli – Vespers
Edmonton producer GHIBLI is hard at work learning Chinese and putting together his new full length titled CLUBS. Keep an ear out for his upcoming tunes, his style has developed from interesting oddity to pure bliss in a very short time.
Top Songs of 2012: 75-51
2012 has been the strongest year in memory for Canadian electronic pop. Established artists started new electronic projects, amazing new talents appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and one of our shining stars became a superstar recognized the world over. Canada is clearly at the epicenter of the zeitgeist – it’s a testament to the unbelievable talent in this country that we have 100 songs to present to you as the best of the year, and STILL had to exclude so many excellent tracks.
Montreal and Toronto may still have the most representatives of any Canadian city, but dark electro is thriving everywhere, from Halifax to Calgary, Ottawa to Vancouver, and exciting new hotbeds appearing in London, Ontario, and Grande Prairie, Alberta. We’re not too exclusively nationalist here at Silent Shout, so border states (minus NYC) appear too, with artists from Minneapolis, Seattle, and Brattleboro, Vermont making our list.
A huge thank you to all our readers, the folks who attend our events, and the bands that make brilliant music across this land for making 2012 an unforgettable year for us. Here’s to an even bigger 2013 for Canadian electronic music.
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
75. Electric Youth – The Best Thing
74. Elrichman – The Shah and I
73. Grapes Godly – No Storm
72. Le Roi Crocodile – Battles
70. Matthew A. Wilkinson – Skyscrapers in Paris
69. Purity Ring – Bellispeak II feat Danny Brown
67. Blanche Blanche Blanche – Fireworks
66. Renny Wilson – Could’ve it Been Me?
65. Moon King – Only Child
64. The Luyas – Fifty Fifty
63. Shadow Folk – Heaven’s Gate
62. Sally Dige – Doppleganger
61. Chairs – Indestructible Machine
60. New Zebra Kid – Go the Extra Mile
59. How Sad (formerly Goose Hut)- Stockholm Syndrome
57. Desire – Tears From Heaven
56. Rob Crooks – Hey! Hey!
55. Blanche Blanche Blanche – She’s Adopted
53. Grimes – Circumambient
52. Essaie Pas – 514 376-9230
51. Maylee Todd – Baby’s Got It
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
Previously: Top 20 Albums /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
Video: Cygnets – Indoctrinate Me
Edmonton’s Cygnets have released a new video for their song ‘Indoctrinate Me’. They have been on a bit of a video kick recently, this being their 7th music video released in 2012. I think their music really lends it’s self to music videos, even one as awkward as this.
