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Snotty Nose Rez Kids
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids Make Major Label Debut with 'Red Future'
It is a busy week for new releases, with Dear Rouge, Colin Stetson, Joel Plaskett, The Dears all putting out projects.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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