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Natasha Roberts
OMBIIGIZI
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New & Upcoming Canadian Albums: OMBIIGIZI, Flore Laurentienne, AP Dhillon, The Sheepdogs & More
It's a busy week for new album releases and announcements of upcoming albums, including one act's major label debut and another's independent debut.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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