November 3rd, 2017 | by Braeden Halverson | published in Features, Local Releases
On their debut full length album Prey, Ottawa’s own Greathunter strikes a wonderful balance between ambition and subtly. The seven tracks on this album all have wonderfully nuanced production and dense compositions, but they are definitely not making noise for the sake of being heard. Every added layer of instrumentation feels so purposeful and vibrant […]
September 27th, 2017 | by Scott Martin | published in Local Releases
Nothing but Time is the latest release from Ty Hall. I’ve been listening to it often over the last month or so. Ty has been making music for a long time. Nothing But Time is my favourite release to date. It’s a great mesh of the musical influences he has built up over the years, […]
June 15th, 2017 | by Michael Holuj | published in Local Releases
Onionface, a three-piece band from Ottawa, is a tour de force. That phrase isn’t meant to be taken lightly. Go to one of their shows. You’ll see them battling it out on stage and giving it everything they’ve got to put on an entertaining show. They keep the energy high live, and they bring that […]
April 5th, 2017 | by Michael Holuj | published in Local Releases
All Day Breakfast is a small band with a big sound. Guitarist Stefan Jurewicz and drummer Alan Tweedley both share vocal responsibilities in this garage rock ball of energy that’s had a shave and a shower. Their debut EP All The Rage mashes heavy fuzz and brow-beating drums with catchy and never-a-dull-moment songwriting. The EP […]
November 24th, 2016 | by Scott Martin | published in Local Releases
Inire recently dropped Cauchemar, their followup to 2009’s debut Born The Wicked, The Fallen, The Damned. Cauchemar opens with a mellow and melodic instrumental, reminiscent of some of the tracks from Corrosion of Conformity’s Deliverance album. Similarly, Into the Labyrinth is one other such track. When it comes to the rest of the album, your […]
August 29th, 2016 | by Dave Manning | published in Local Releases
In two and a half years The Haig have released two albums, the enigmatic Template For Disaster and its equally cryptic sibling, Tales of Wisdom and Might. Then, they tempted us recently with Turnbull Suit 7″, a prelude their new creation, Ghost of Nuclear Future, due to be released September 24th. In light of this […]
June 24th, 2016 | by Dave Manning | published in Local Releases, New Music
Self-described “choir-rock” band Prayer Wheels increases their presence on the Ottawa music scene with Spring, their four-song debut EP to be released by Ringbill Records on June 27, 2016. Featuring four vocalists in harmony, this quintet has the potential to carve an impressive niche locally and beyond. Selected from songs Pierce McKennirey (bass/guitar/vocals) had been […]
June 15th, 2016 | by Dave Manning | published in Local Releases
A single deep resounding tom-strike introduces Boundaries, the latest composition by The Night Watch, entering it into the annals of Progressive Rock/Metal with an intensity and ferocity that borders the realms of Symphonic Rock by its sheer lyrical imagination and impassioned dramatic scope which pulsates through an ardent spectrum from the perilously grim to the […]
June 2nd, 2016 | by Dave Manning | published in Local Releases
The rare poetic orchids of Smoke Lake, conceived of memory and dream, birthed in solitude and sanctuary, nurtured by bone and breath and blood and soul surrounded by nature and ancestry, are set before us by Kaleigh Watts as gentle dona spiritus naturae to breathe in and …to savour. Having been taken in by Kaleigh’s […]
May 25th, 2016 | by Dave Manning | published in Local Releases
In 1920, Robert Frost wrote The Road Less Travelled whose last two lines are… I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The truth is that we all, every single one of us, walk a ‘road less travelled’ because every road/path is singular. We are the only ones travelling […]