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A Look at the Polaris Long List: 34. Shooting Guns – Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976
Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 by Shooting Guns I was actually really digging the dirty instrumental rock sound of Shooting Guns‘ Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 album a lot. My (semi-)contemporary rock references might not always be on point but my best guess is, if you dig Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jesus and […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 31. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness
I have it on good advice that Joel Plaskett Emergency is a staple of Canadian sub-genre of rock known as dock rock (is having a song titled “Harbour Boys” an acknowledgement of this fact, I wonder??). At various points Scrappy Happiness reminded me of J. Geils Band, Tom Petty, a mellow version of Everclear and […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 12. Cœur de Pirate – Blonde
More Francophone pop courtesy of Cœur de Pirate, the alter ego of 22 year old, super-tattooed Béatrice Martin. Think a modern take on the 60’s chanteuse-style pop like Françoise Hardy, as channeled via Adele (or something…). Stella Artois should look into maybe licensing one of her tracks for their throwback, continental style TV commercials. Just […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 4. Avec pas d’casque – Astronomie
Astronomie by Avec pas d’casque I can’t say I really can give the Francophone albums like this one a fair shake because of the language barrier, years of middle, high school and college French be damned. That being said music (and love) are truly the universal languages and you can still feel the emotion conveyed […]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 20. Fucked Up Album – David Comes to Life
This was a frustrating album to listen to for me. Prior Polaris Prize winner, Fucked Up‘s David Comes to Life is a period ‘rock opera’ set in a fictional English town called Byrdesdale Spa in the 1970s/80s. If that’s not already enough to make you say, ‘Huh?’ trying to follow along with the story by […]