Indigenous Hip-Hop Duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids Make Major Label Debut with 'Red Future': New Canadian Albums

The summerlull in releases is definitely over now. This week brings a big crop of new Canadian releases to market.

That list includes such notables as Polaris Prize winning saxophonist Colin Stetson, acclaimed singer-songwriters Geoffroy, Owen Marchildon and Sarah Davachi, reunited hard rockers Sven Gali, pop-rock hitmakers Dear Rouge, Quebec favourite Flore Laurentienne, Juno-winning folk combo The Fretless, Vancouver rapper Teon Gibbs and East Coast CanCon hero Joel Plaskett.

Find a full calendar of new and upcoming albums below.

Album of the Week: Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Red Future

Prime movers in Canadian Indigenous hip-hop, dynamic Haisla Nation duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids made news by jumping to a major label (Sony Music Canada) last year. As an independent act, Yung Trybez and Young D made it to the Polaris Music Prize shortlist multiple times and earned serious kudos for a vibrant, witty and high-energy sound. Their keenly-anticipated major label debut, Red Future, comes out today (Sept. 13), though a good chunk of it has already been released via advance singles, to a positive response. It sounds like a big statement befitting their new status.

The title track, featuring Australian act Electric Fields, came out in March and has scored an impressive 805K YouTube views. It is both defiant and optimistic in its theme of Indigenous empowerment (sample lyrics: "We dem ground movers, earth shakers, no saviour, While they preying on us, we bin building something greater"). Another highlight cut, "Kaleidoscope," featuring Travis Thompson and produced by Eestbound (Travis Scott, Young Thug), similarly showcases the social conscience that is a SNRK signature ("See the highway of tears that I’m passing? You know how many here gone missing?"). Just out as a single and video is "No Dogs Allowed," featuring rapid-fire rhyming over a propulsive beat. Other tracks feature such guests as Cree rapper Drezus and Rezcoast Grizz, and there's a refreshing diversity of tones, tempos and lyrical themes here.

SNRK begin an extensive North American tour in Vancouver on Sept. 21, concluding with a Dec. 6 show at Opera House in Toronto. Full itinerary here.

Check the full release calendar here

September

5: Richard Laviolette, All Wild Things Are Shy

6: Hansom Ēli, Sip (The Vault)

6: Cuff The Duke, Breaking Dawn (Cardinal Records)

6: SUUNS, The Breaks (Secret City)

6: Bob Sumner, Some Place To Rest Easy

6: Mo Kenney, From Nowhere

9: ASKO, S/T (Dine Alone)

13: Colin Stetson, The love it took to leave you (Envision Records)

13: The Dears, No Cities Left: The Definitive Anniversary Edition (Outside Music)

13: The Fretless, Glasswing (Birthday Cake)

13: Teon Gibbs, The Calm Before

13: Dear Rouge, Lonesome High (Pheromone Recordings/Cadence Music Group)

13: Brooke Stilla, k bye

13: Sarah Davachi, The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir ( Late Music)

13: Michael Sarian, Live At Cliff's Bells (Shifting Paradigm Records)

13: Sven Gali, Bombs and Battlescars

13: Flore Laurentienne, 8 tableaux, (Secret City Records)

13: Various Artists, Lakeview: Music From The Motion Picture. (LHM Records)

13: Owen Marchildon, Dangling Towards Heavy Sunlight

13: Geoffroy, Good Boy - deluxe

13: Nemahsis, Verbatim

13: Paloma Sky, Hold On To Me

13: The Devil's Sons, Now and at the Hour of Death

13: Joel Plaskett, One Real Reveal

13: Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Red Future

13: Chastity - Chastity

13: The Fringe, S/T - vinyl reissue (Axe Records)

16: The Meringues, Pavlova's Dog

18: Emmett Jerome, Rocky Mountain Son ( 604/Light Organ Records)

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

19: ASKO, S/T (Dine Alone Records)

20: Golden Feather, Release

20: Sunset Rubdown, Always Happy to Explode

20: Alex Henry Foster, A Measure of Shape and Sounds (Hopeful Tragedy)

20: Kim Beggs, Beneath Your Skin

20: Ontarians, More How It Is

20: Molly Annelle, Junebug (604 Records)

20: Virginie B, Astral 2000

20: Spitty, Motherland

20: JJ Wilde - Vices

20: Ron Korb, Global Canvas

20: Craig Robertson, Running The Other Way

20: Jesse Waldman & Marc L'Esperance, The Shimmering Divide

20: Howard Gladstone, Crazy Talk

20: Nelly Furtado, 7

27: Leif Vollebekk, Revelation (Secret City Records)

27: Goldie Boutilier, The Actress ( ONErpm)

27: Sharon, Lois & Bram, Elephant Show Stoppers! (Elephant Records Inc./Red Brick Songs)

27: Julian Taylor, Pathways (Howling Turtle, Inc.)

27: Bryn Roberts, Aloft(Elastic Recordings)

27: Tea Fannie, It's All Love

27: Andy Colonico, Daytime Broker

27: Mustafa, Dunya(Arts & Crafts)

27: Contrived, Addicted to Sadness (LHM Records)

27: Hua Li 化力, ripe fruit falls but not in your mouth -remix (Next Door Records)

27: Bryn Roberts ft Matt Penman and Quincy Davis, ALOFT (Elastic Recordings)

27: André Ethier, Cold Spaghetti

27: Tia Wood, Pretty Red Bird

27: Eddy Ruyter, Waves (Heart Dance Records)

27: Blue Moon Marquee, New Orleans Sessions

27: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Horizon Lines

October

3: Cadence Weapon,ROLLERCOASTER (Deluxe)(MNRK Music)

4: Mia Kelly, To Be Clear

4: Devarrow, Heart Shaped Rock (Paper Bag Records)

4: Christo Graham, Music For Horses (We Are Busy Bodies)

4: The Low Sixes, The Oshawa Tree ( Forge Again Records)

4: Ada Lea, notes EP (Next Door Records)

4: Emblematics, Removal

4: Caribou, Honey (City Slang)

4: Charlie A'Court, San Palarino

4: Chris Gostling, Forest City Town Country

11: Klô Pelgag, Abracadabra (Secret City Records)

11: The August Arrival, Hillsides

11: Jadea Kelly, Weather Girl

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

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

18: Sean Davis Newton, Bird Brain

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

18: Shawn Mendes, Shawn

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

25: Simbo, SOUNDSORCERER VOL.2

25: Victime, En conversation avec (Mothland)

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

25: Ollee Owens, Nowhere To Hide

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

25: LEAHY, Live In Concert

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

25: Lia Kuri, Motherland

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: Jennifer Castle, Camelot (Solstice Radio)

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)

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

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

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

8: Les Breastfeeders , La ville engloutie (Bonsound)

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

8: We Are Wolves, title TBA

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

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

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

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

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

15: Tim Baker, Full Rainbow of Light

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

December

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light

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

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

January

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

31: Gus Engelhorn, The Hornbook (Secret City)