New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: Wine Lips, poolblood, Dana Gavanski & More
The fourth full-length from Toronto garage punks Wine Lips is our album of the week, while fellow rockers The Dirty Nil and Honeymoon Suite also have new releases. It's a new month, and we have a full calendar of new and upcoming releases.
Wine Lips
It's a very busy week for new releases from Canadian artists. Hamilton rockers The Dirty Nil have a deluxe edition of their album featuring a new "Total Eclipse of the Heart" cover, while Crash Kelly, Kiran Ahluwalia, Carson Janik, Sam Wilson, Tara Kannangara, and Hugh Christopher Brown are all releasing new albums.
Those announcing upcoming album release dates include The Anti-Queens, Northern Ranger and Electric Religious.
Check out the full schedule after our album of the week.
Album of The Week: Wine Lips, Super Mega Ultra
Since forming in 2015 with core members guitarist/songwriter Cam Hilborn and drummer Aurora Evans, this Toronto-based band has won fans internationally with a fiery sound they call “garage punk psych rock.” New album Super Mega Ultra is released on April 5, and advance cuts “Stimulation” and “Derailer” have already grabbed attention. Recorded by Simon Larochette at Ontario studio The Sugar Shack in Ontario, SMU features the band somewhat stretching out musically, as on the angular post-punk of "Serotonin," but never at the expense of its signature high-energy and hookability. Wine Lips’ third full-length, 2021’s Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party, really broke the band, generating almost 20 million Spotify spins and scoring major film and TV placements. Iggy Pop is a fan, which is just about all you need to know.
The band plays Montreal on April 23 and Toronto's Massey Hall on April 25, followed by a North American tour closing out in Detroit on June 1. A Vancouver date is on May 17. Itinerary here.
March
28: Emily Triggs, The Great Escape
29: Sum 41, Heaven :x: Hell (Rise Records)
29: Sykamore, Through the Static ( CMDSHFT)
29: Sue Foley, One Guitar Woman ( Stony Plain Records)
29: Family Man, ICONOCLAST (Indica Records)
29: Aimee-Jo Benoit, Horns of Hope (Chronograph Records)
29: Shawn Kellerman, Kell’s Kitchen
29: 027, You're Not Supposed to Know (Bandcamp)
29: Matthew Chaffey, Hotel Texas (Gypsy Soul Records)
April
1: George Crotty, Inner Nature
1: Hugh Christopher Brown, Pacem 2 - Music from the original motion picture soundtrack 1968.
4: The Dirty Nil,Free Rein to Passions deluxe edition(Dine Alone Records)
4: Crash Kelly, Mïxx Täpe
5: Dana Gavanski, Late Slap (Full Time Hobby)
5: Kiran Ahluwalia, Comfort Food
5: Carson Janik,Neon to Lean On
5: Sam Wilson, Wintertides
5: Wine Lips, Super Mega Ultra ( Stomp Records)
5: Tara Kannangara, Extraordinary People
5 :Ballsy, Bisou
5: Julie Aubé, Boiling Over
5: Annie-Claude Deschênes, LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE (Bonsound)
5: Honeymoon Suite, Alive (BCMG)
5: poolblood, theres_plenty_of_music_to_go_around.zip (Next Door Records)
5: Chief State, The Acoustic EP (Mutant League Records)
5: The Way Back Whens, Live at the Yardbird Suite (Chronograph Records)
10: Mawzy, Long View
11: Scenic Route to Alaska, Lasts Forever
12: Classified, Luke's View (HalfLife Records & Big Story Entertainment)
12: iskwē, nīna
12: Temporal Waves, S/T (People Places Records / Linear Fade Records)
12: Sarah Jerrom, Magpie (TPR Records)
12: Gillian Hay, Magnolia Baby
12: METZ, Up On Gravity Hill
19: Michael Feuerstack, Eternity Mongers ( Forward Music)
19: Cadence Weapon, ROLLERCOASTER (MNRK Music)
19: Nice Horse, S/T (Sakamoto Music/Warner Music Canada)
19: The Brenan Brothers, Valley of Silence
19: Leaf Rapids, Velvet Paintings
19: Kellie Loder, Transitions
19: Ndidi O, Simple Songs for Complicated Times
19: Daniel Janke's Winter Trio, Available Light ( Chronograph Records)
20: Coney Hatch, Postcard from Germany (vinyl)
24: Thunder Queens, Strike One (Victory Pool Records)
26: Northern Ranger, Taken By Violet
26: Trashed Ambulance, Trashed At The Vat
26: Ellis, No Place That Feels Like
26: Corridor, Mimi (Bonsound)
26: MacKenzie Porter, Nobody's Born With A Broken Heart (Big Loud)
26: Anthony D’Alessandro, Searchin’
26: ambroise: la première caresse goûte toujours la neige
26: Joshua Hyslop, Evergold
26: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, FU###IN' UP
26: Colour Film, Half An Hour
26: Kyp Harness, Kick The Dust
26: PartyNextDoor, PartyNextDoor4 (OVO Sound)
26: Alex Henry Foster, Kimiyo
26: Lee Aaron, Tattoo Me
29: Lemon Bucket Orchestra, Cuckoo
May
1: Deep Dark Woods, Broadside Ballads Vol. III. (Victory Pool)
3: Clever Hopes, New Kind of Familiar
3: Charlotte Day Wilson, Cyan Blue
3: Dun-Dun Band, Pita Parka Pt. 1 — Xam Egdub (Ansible Editions)
3: Laraw, Quarter Life Crisis (Bravo Musique)
6: Stephen Hamm, Songs of the Future
9: Roddy Ellias, Moon Over Lake
10: Xana, The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn’t
10: Abigail Lapell, Anniversary (Outside Music)
10: Potatohead People, Eat Your Heart Out (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
10: Bibi Club, Feu de garde (Secret City Records)
17: Alana Yorke, Destroyer (Paper Bag Records)
17: Major Love, Live, Laugh, Major Love (Slow Weather)
17: Maple Mountain Sunburst, Ecstatic
17: Telehorn, The Gravity Of See You Later (Touch in Motion)
17: Kaïa Kater, Strange Magic (Acronym)
17: Ruth Moody, Wanderer (Blue Muse Records/True North Records)
17: The Anti-Queens, Disenchanted ( Stomp Records)
17: Ghostly Kisses, Darkroom
24: David Myles, Devil Talking (Little Tiny Records / turtlemusik)
24: Priori, This But More (NAFF)
24: Kiesza, Dancing and Crying: Vol. 1
24: Old Man Luedecke, She Told Me Where to Go
24: Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler (Royal Mountain Records)
24: Lynne Hanson, Just A Poet
31: Unessential Oils, S/T (Secret City Records)
31: Kym Gouchie, Shun beh nats’ujeh
June
7: Maggie Andrew, Day Job
14: The Hi Tops,Lips, Hips, and Counterfeits
21: Belfountain, Some Hearts
21 - Celeigh Cardinal, Boundless Possibilities
July
12: Donovan Woods, Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now (End Times Music)
19: Oleyada, Late Night Jam
26: Electric Religious, The Taste (Red Music Rising)
