New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: OMBIIGIZI, Flore Laurentienne, AP Dhillon, The Sheepdogs & More

Canadian artists were busy this week.

The list of new Canadian albums features Punjabi Wave star AP Dhillon (his first on a new major label deal after already charting with its first single), a surprise new independent EP from Saskatoon rockers The Sheepdogs, and a new offering from veteran blues-rock star Colin James.

A number of artists have also announced new releases to look forward to in coming months.

OMBIIGIZI's second album, Shame, will come out on Nov. 1, on noted independent imprint Arts & Crafts. Through their work in OMBIIGIZI and their other projects, Zoon and Status/Non-Status, Daniel Monkman and Adam Sturgeon are at the forefront of the Anishinaabe revival, and following their journey is an exciting exercise.

The group’s 2022 debut Sewn Back Together was a Polaris Music Prize finalist and Juno nominee, and this follow-up has been keenly awaited. Built around singer-songwriter-guitarists Sturgeon (of Status/Non-Status) and Monkman (of Zoon), the band’s sound is described as “Indigenous futurism with a heavy dose of '90s alt, psych rock, and shoegaze.”

Returning to the producer’s chair for Shame is Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, a man who knows his way around atmospheric soundscapes, OMBIIGIZI’s signature. Recording took place at The Tragically Hip's Bathouse Studio in Kingston.

Another announcement this week shares the news that Flore Laurentienne, the experimental electronic classical project by Mathieu David Gagnon, will release an expanded edition of the outfit’s 2024 album, 8 tableaux, on September 13, via Secret City Records. The deluxe editionfeatures four new songs inspired by Quebecois painter and sculptor, Jean Paul Riopelle.

Coinciding with the release date is the kick-off of a string of fall tour dates supporting the legendary avant-garde composer William Basinski as well as one show with saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles. See the tour dates here. Stream the new track "Les oies III" here.

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

August

16: KROY, Militia

16: Dee Holt, loving in the dark

16: Tara MacLean, Live In My Hometown (turtlemusik)

16: Lexxicon, Pink Fraternity

20: Rory Taillon, Now It's Quiet

20:Tara MacLean, Live in My Hometown

22: The Sheepdogs, Paradise Alone (Right On Records)

23: The Secret Beach, We Were Born Here, What's Your Excuse? (Victory Pool)

23: Falcon Jane, Legacy

23: Colin James, Chasing The Sun (Stony Plain)

23: AP Dhillon, The Brownprint

23: Hillsboro, White Trash

23: Sam Weber, Clear + Plain

23: Mike Evin, Something Stirs When You Sing

23: Michael Cloud Duguay, Succeeder (Watch That Ends The Night)

28: Ghostkeeper, Cipayak Joy (Victory Pool Records)

28: Quatuor Bozzini / junctQín keyboard collective4 / Rebecca Bruton / Jason Doell, a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together (Collection QB)

30: The Sound of Eddy, Ladders (Ensoul Records)

30: Greg Amirault, A Change of Pace

30: Dan Mangan, Being Elsewhere Mix CD

September

6: Hansom Ēli, Sip (The Vault)

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

6: Michael Scott Dawson, The Tinnitus Chorus (We Are Busy Bodies)

6: D.D. Jackson, Poetry Project

6: Terry Donaghue, Looking For Redemption

6: Mojo Minefield, Watch Your Step

6: Thélonius García, Marche Nocturne (night walk)

6: SUUNS, The Breaks (Secret City)

6: Bob Sumner, Some Place To Rest Easy

6: Devin Cooper, Good Things: Deluxe Edition

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 Fretless, Glasswing (Birthday Cake)

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

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

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

16: The Meringues, Pavlova's Dog

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: 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: 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: Tea Fannie, It's All Love

27: Andy Colonico, Daytime Broker

27: Mustafa, Dunya(Arts & Crafts)

27: Contrived, Addicted to Sadness (LHM Records)

27: Eddy Ruyter, Waves (Heart Dance Records)

27: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Horizon Lines

October

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: 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

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: Sean Davis Newton, Bird Brain

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

18: Shawn Mendes, Shawn

25: Victime, En conversation avec (Mothland)

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: OMBIIGIZI, Shame (Arts & Crafts)

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

8: We Are Wolves, title TBA

8: Yoo Doo Right (Mothland)

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

December

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light

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