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New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Drake & PartyNextDoor Team Up, Alessia Cara Returns with 'Love & Hyperbole'

Drake & Party have the blockbuster album of the week, but there's a diverse grouping of new releases including an archive offering from Neil Young and an adventurous project by July Talk frontman Peter Dreams with MOONRIIVR.

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Alessia Cara

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It's Valentine's Day, this week, and there are plenty of new albums to romance your ears. The biggest is definitely the new album from Drake & PartyNextDoor, first teased at a concert in Toronto last summer and now released during renewed chatter over Drake's beef with Kendrick Lamar after the rival rapper's Super Bowl performance.

This week, Neil Young releases a gem from the vaults, the "lost" album Oceanside Countryside. Peter Dreams (from July Talk) and acclaimed duo MOONRIIVR team up for a self-titled album on Six Shooter records, pop princess Alessia Cara releases Love & Hyperbole, Montreal R&B prospect Fernie has the new EP Hopeless Dreams, and Juno-nominated Toronto jazz singer Denielle Bassels, glam rocker Art d'Ecco and Indian fusion artist Raj Ramayya all have new projects.


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All of these albums have been added to our ongoing calendar of new Canadian albums, which you can find in full below.

Notable acts recently announcing upcoming album release dates include indie rock heroes Born Ruffians (their ninth full-length), Stars vocalist Amy Millan (her first solo album in 15 years), veteran singer-songwriter Blair Packham and rock duo Cleopatrick.

Here is the full calendar of new and upcoming Canadian music releases:

February

6: Busty and the Bass, The Mannequin

7: Gino Vannelli, THE LIFE I GOT (TO MY MOST BELOVED)(COA Productions)

7: Naya Ali, We Did The Damn Thing (Bonsound)

7: We Found a Lovebird, With Friends Like These

7: AHI, The Light Behind the Sun

11: Errol Eats Everything, S/T

11; Helena Deland, Altogether Unaccompanied, Vol. 5 (Chivi Chivi)

14: Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR, S/T (Six Shooter)

14: Drake and PartyNextDoor, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U

14: Customer Service, to you, after 2000 years (Royal Mountain)

14: Fernie, Hopeless Dreams

14: Raj Ramayya, Love Thy Brown Brother

14: Alessia Cara, Love & Hyperbole

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14: Neil Young, Oceanside Countryside (Reprise)

14: Art d’Ecco, Serene Demon (Paper Bag Records)

14: Denielle Bassels, It Goes Like This

14: Moka Only - Do U A Solid ((Urbnet)

14: Henry Canyons & Fresh Kils - Educated Guesses (Urbnet)

18: Mark McLaughlin, All I Can Say

21: Basia Bulat, Basia’s Palace (Secret City Records)

21: Ariane Racicot, Danser avec le feu

21: Tate McRae, So Close To What (RCA Records)

21: Saya Gray, SAYA (Marion Murata Records)

21: Christina Petrowska Quilico & Jacques Israelievitch, Mozart Complete Sonatas & Variations For Piano & Violin(Parma Recordings)

21: Silverstein, Antibloom (UNFD)

21: ENDRUN - All Pain 4 Me (Urbnet)

21: Laurie Torres, Après coup (Tonal Union)

21: Men Without Hats, Live (Shocore)

26: Pierre Kwenders, Tears On The Dancefloor (Moonshine / ADA Warner)

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer

28: CJ Wiley, So Brand New (Tiny Kingdom)

28: Naomi SV, Timescape

28: Filmmaker, An Invitation to an Accident (Record Record Label)

28: Killing Daisies, Echoes Of Tomorrow

28: Brett Kissel, Let Your Horses Run

28: Sacred Wolf Singers X Simon Walls, L’nu’k Mawiejik (The People Gather Together).

28: The Hylozoists, La Fin Du Monde (Record Record Label)

28: Moka Only, Arbutus Canyon (Urbnet)

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28: hHead, Jerk/Fireman (Record Record Label)

28: Ron Ledoux, Views, Visions & Destinations

28: Don Amero, Broken Record: Part 1 - Heart

March

4: 4: Blair Packham, The Impossible Dream

6: The Shuffle Demons, Are You Really Real (ALMA Records)

7: No Frills, Sad Clown(We Are Busy Bodies)

7: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea, (Pale Chord /Rise Records)

7: Morgan Toney, Heal The Divide (Ishkode)

7: The Burning Hell, Ghost Palace ( You've Changed Records)

7: Housewife, EP Girl Of The Hour

7: Frog Eyes, The Open Up

14: cleopatrick Fake Moon, (Nowhere Special Recordings/Thirty Tigers)

14: Shiv and The Carvers, Tell Me You Love Me Again

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14: Real Sickies, Under a Plastic Bag

18: Brock Geiger, Some Nights

21: RUSH, RUSH 50 (UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records)

21: Thea May, Brought to You by Tragedy (Ishkōdé Records)

.28: Salin, Rammana

28: Destroyer, Dan’s Boogie (Merge)

28: Bria Salmena, Big Dog (Royal Mountain)

28: The Blue Stones, Metro (Thirty Tigers)

28: Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry) (Mothland)

April

4: Sister Ray, Believer (Royal Mountain Records)

4: young friend, motorcycle sound effects (Nettwerk)

4: Endray, S/T

8: Terry Gomes, Some Chunes

9: Cold Specks, Light for the Midnight (Secret City Records)

11: Amanda Rheaume, The Truth We Hold (Ishkōdé Records)

11: Captain Tractor, East of Edson (Revisited), 30th Anniversary Edition

11:Mona Lissa Chanda, Queen of Games

11: Casper Skulls, Kit-Cat ( Next Door Records)

11: Ostara, The Roots

18: Drew Smith, Leaf by Leaf

25: Digawolf, Trapline

25: Rachella Wred, Leave The Light On

25: Braden Lam, The Cloudmaker's Cry

25: Bells Larsen, Blurring Time (Royal Mountain)

25: Matt Andersen, The Hammer & The Rose (Sonic Records)

25: Kyle McKearney, To The River

25: METÒ, Wed To The Moment

May

9: Hanorah, Closer Than Hell (Ensoul Records)

30: Amy Millan, I Went To Find You (Last Gang Records)

30: SamWoy, Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun (Hidden Ship)

June

6: Born Ruffians, Beauty’s Pride (Wavy Haze Records)

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New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: Aysanabee Announces New Album, Rush Deliver Career Anthology

Here is the full calendar of new and upcoming Canadian album releases.

Rush are no longer touring after the death of drummer Neil Peart, but they're keeping their legacy alive.

This week, the beloved Canadian prog-rock trio release Rush 50, a 50-track anthology spanning their legendary career. The presence of unreleased tracks on this first-ever full retrospective box set will excite the super-fans.

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