Happy International Women’s Day. Female artists and colleagues are the heart and soul of PoB. Their talent and hard work amaze us daily, and they keep us from dragging our knuckles and inspire us to be better humans. It’s a shit business already, dudes, let’s stop making it even shittier for women.
Mind Over Mirrors has shared “Vermillion Pink,” a new track that offers a dark, devotional take on the rhythmic drone music perfected on the upcoming double-album Bellowing Sun, along with an in-depth interview with Noisey, who call the album “so powerful, so alive, that it carries a meaning all its own.”
The Canadian artist Jennifer Castle has long been one of our favorite songwriters, and we are ecstatic to welcome her, and her haunting, transcendent new album Angels of Death, to Paradise. Today, The FADER has premiered “Crying Shame,” the devastating first single from the album they claim “everyone will fall in love with,” which is now available to preorder.
Nap Eyes are streaming their new album via NPR Music and CBC Music ahead of its March 9th release. NPR praises the band as “masters of subtlety,” evocatively describing the most transparent and personal Nap Eyes’ album to date: “I’m Bad Now slithers through 11 tracks like a phosphorescent python, its diamond-shaped scales emitting both glimmer and gloom.”
Nap Eyes have unveiled the next single from their forthcoming album, I’m Bad Now. Accompanying “I’m Bad” is a video directed by Halifax-based filmmaker Seth Smith and inspired by Renaissance portraiture, which The FADER premiered today. Also, Uncut declares the album a masterpiece on par with the Go-Betweens, Belle & Sebastian, and Television.
Mind Over Mirrors will release their massive new double album Bellowing Sun on April 6th. After premiering the first single “Matchstick Grip” with NPR Music, today the band shares their second single “Zeitgebers,” defined by an exuberant kosmische pulse, via The Quietus.
The Weather Station’s critically acclaimed self-titled album, released in October, has been nominated for a Juno Award in the category of Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Congrats to Tamara and the band!
Nap Eyes will release their third album, I’m Bad Now, on March 9th. After premiering the first single “Every Time the Feeling” with NPR Music, today the band shares the propulsive second single “Dull Me Line,” which Noisey describes as “marked by shimmering guitar chords and arguably the most instantly palatable chorus the band’s ever come up with.” Read Nigel’s reflections on songwriting in the accompanying interview.
Red River Dialect’s beautiful new album Broken Stay Open Sky is out today. Order from PoB or find these February fruits wherever fine music is sold, downloaded, or streamed. The band is currently finishing up a tour of the UK with The Weather Station.
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for its world premiere performance, Bellowing Sun is a twelve-faceted sonic inquiry into celestial cycles and the illuminating nature of darkness, the majestic culmination of composer, harmoniumist, and synthesist Jaime Fennelly’s immersive explorations of the natural world’s sensory dimensions and the dialogues between musical traditions. Hear “Matchstick Grip” via NPR.
