Japandroids Go Out on Their Own Terms on 'Fate & Alcohol': New & Upcoming Canadian Albums

There's an eclectic group of new releases from Canadian artists this week, headlined by a band delivering their final album.

That includes Toronto jazz singers Genevieve Marentette and Sam Broverman, Indigenous rapper/producer Wolf Castle and soul vocalist and playwright-actor Nicky Lawrence.

Indie rock mavericks Nap Eyes are also releasing a fifth full-length today (Oct. 18). It's lyrically idiosyncratic, with the bio promising "an uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality and video games."

Meanwhile, veteran Ontario punk outfit Silverstein have announced they will release a double album early next year. Antibloom / Pink Moon will come out on Feb. 21, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the band. An international 25 Years Of Noise Tour will celebrate that milestone, kicking off in North America on January 10. Itinerary and info here.

Also this week, a pioneering Canadian punk band, D.O.A., revealed the artists featured on No Escape From What You Are, a tribute album featuring some top names covering D.O.A. songs. That impressive list includes Rancid, Descendents, Duff McKagan, Circle Jerks, Propagandhi, Voivod and Slime. It comes out on Oct. 25.

Album of The Week: Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol

Some 18 years after starting in Vancouver, the indie rock duo of Brian King and David Prowse recently announced that their new and fourth album as Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol, would be their final one.

Over the course of their career, Japandroids earned both critical acclaim and a loyal fan base for a high-energy sound based around aggressive guitar, drums and vocals. On Fate & Alcohol, the sonic fury remains, but there is a certain lyrical maturity in evidence, as in “Upon Sober Reflection” and "Positively 34th St."

The album was co-produced by Japandroids and Jesse Gander, who also engineered and mixed. The Juno-winning Gander (Anciients, White Lung, The Pack A.D.) was also at the helm for the Polaris Prize-shortlisted Celebration Rock, which is now remembered as one of the best rock albums of the 2010s.

The duo has nixed the idea of a farewell show or tour. Prowse told The Vancouver Sun recently that "I think Brian and I have both kind of intellectually processed that we’re not touring. But on an emotional level, I’m still kind of fully coming to understand that it’s over."

See the full release calendar below.

October

9: Meko Brain, Wonderment (Victory Pool Records)

9: Busty and the Bass, Deluxe Version of Forever Never Cares

10: Chromeo, Adult Contemporary - deluxe edition

11: Klô Pelgag, Abracadabra (Secret City Records)

11: 54•40, Live At El Mocambo

11: The Dears, No Cities Left: The Definitive 20th Anniversary Edition Vinyl

11: Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked For The Holidays (Reissue)

11: Eldritch Priest, Dormitive Virtue (Halocline Trance)

11: Jadea Kelly, Weather Girl

14: Justine Giles,Another Chance

16: Genevieve Marentette, Songs of '69, Vol 1 (Vesuvius Music)

16: Taima, S/T - 20th anniversary reissue) (Bonsound)

16: Jane's Party, The Best of Wild in the Woods Vol. 2

17: Sam Broverman, Memories of You(Bandcamp)

18: Twin Flames, Hugging the Cactus

18: The Free Label, Songs for Sienna (Westwood Recordings)

18: Nicky Lawrence, Ugly Black Woman (Gypsy Soul Records)

18: YASSiN & Sean Terrio, Just Try (Believe Digital)

18: Andrea Cormier, S/T

18: Wolf Castle, Waiting For The Dawn (Forward Music)

18: Sean Davis Newton, Bird Brain

18: Nap Eyes, The Neon Gate (Paper Bag Records)

18: Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol

18: Hildegard, Jour 1596 (Chivi Chivi)

18: The Lookout, I Know The Future

18: Wild Rivers, Better Now (Nettwerk Music Group)

18: NADJIWAN, The Mission (Heading North Music)

22: Léolo, Mainland

25: Simbo, SOUNDSORCERER VOL.2

25: Victime, En conversation avec (Mothland)

25: Ron Sexsmith, Cobblestone Runway & Retriever (limited edition vinyl & Cd reissues)

25: Good Lovelies, We Will Never Be The Same (anniversary reissue) (Outside Music)

25: D.O.A. & Guests, No Escape From What You Are (Sudden Death Records)

25: The Discarded, The Green Door

25: Ollee Owens, Nowhere To Hide

25: Maddee Ritter, Songs about Love & Death (Best Breakfast/Majesticsilk)

25: MICO, Internet hometown hero (Wasted Years Ltd.)

25: Duane “D.O.” Gibson, The Story of How Young Duane Gibson Stayed Driven ( Believe Digital)

25: Lindsay Ell,love myself (Universal Music Canada)

25: Brittany Kennell, Pink Collar - Deluxe edition ( Symphonic Distribution)

25: Leahy, Live In Concert

25: T. Thomason, Tenderness (Six Shooter Records)

25: Billie Zizi,Levitate

25: Diana Panton, soft winds and roses

25: Lia Kuri, Motherland

30: Frank Mighty Nexterday

31: Maya Malkin, it's a me thing

November

1: Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun ( Good People Record Co./Easy Eye Sound)

1: Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon, First Sounds (One Little Independent/Envision Records)

1: Flower Face, Girl Prometheus (Nettwerk)

1: Jennifer Castle, Camelot (Solstice Radio)

1: Ilya Osachuk, The Answer

1: No Codes - Usual Suspects

1: OMBIIGIZI, Shame (Arts & Crafts)

1: SHEBAD, Music is the Answer

1: The Henrys, Secular Hymns and Border Songs (Bandcamp)

11: Lenka Lichtenberg, Feel With Blood (Six Degrees)

1: Alfie Smith, Every Rome Needs A Nero (Gilded Tooth)

1: Laila Biali, Wintersongs

1: Christopher Whitley, Almost As Soft As Silence

1: Astrocolor, Stargazing – AstroJazz Vol. 2

1: Skye Wallace, The Act of Living ( Tiny Kingdom)

1: Owen Riegling, Bruce County - deluxe version(UMC)

1: Sandy Bell, Break of Day: Songs for Colin

1: Carn Davidson 9, Reverence

1: The Matinee, End of Scene - B-Sides EP

6: Tamar Ilana & Ventanas, Azadi (Lulaworld)

8: Les Dales Hawerchuk,Attaque à cinq (Bravo)

8: Les Breastfeeders , La ville engloutie (Bonsound)

8: ROSIER, elle veille encore l

8: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here (box set)

8: Pamela Morgan, White Fleet Suite

8: Dan Fortin, Cannon (Elastic Recordings)

8: Louie Sanchez, S/T (Next Door Records)

8: We Are Wolves, title TBA

8: Yoo Doo Right, From the Heights of Our Pastureland (Mothland)

8: Angell & Crane, S/T (For The Living And The Dead)

8: Homeshake, Horsie (Deluxe) (Dine Alone Records)

8: Les Dales Hawerchuk,Attaque à cinq ( Bravo)

14: King Cruff, WHAT HAVE I ‘DON (Tuff Gong Collective/Universal Music Canada)

15: Alvvays, S/T -10th anniversary vinyl only reissue

15: Marcus Trummer,From The Start (Gypsy Soul Records)

15: Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties (Earshift Music)

15: Shawn Mendes, Shawn

15: Ryland Moranz , Better/Worse

15: Ghost Orchid, S/T

15: Stefan Gnyś, Horizoning (We Are Busy Bodies)

15: His His, Good Gold Cassette (Victory Pool Records)

15: Kylie V, Crash Test Plane(Royal Mountain Records)

15: Sunnsetter -Heaven Hang Over Me (Paper Bag Records)

15: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light

20: MOONRIIVR, Tascam Series EPs (Victory Pool Records)

28: Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks, Another Christmas Day

29: Ruby Singh, Vox. Infold 11

December

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light

6: Lubalin, haha, no worries (Cult Nation)

6: Cory Marks, Sorry For Nothing (Better Noise Music)

13: Menno Versteeg, Why We Run ( Royal Mountain Records)

January

17: Marlaena Moore, Because You Love Everything (Session/Bonsound)

17: The Weather Station, Humanhood ( Next Door Records)

17: Ken Presse, Someday

24: Motherhood, Thunder Perfect Mind (Forward Music)

24: Sarah Page & Patrick Graham, Littoral States

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)

31: N NAO, Nouveau Langage ( Mothland)

31: Featurette, Panic Pills (via Division11).

February

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

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

21: Silverstein, Antibloom I Pink Moon (UNFD)

27: JJ Miller, Hometown Believer