“Corydon Ave (To Meet You)” by sundayclub

Winnipeg’s sundayclub have just released their debut album SUNDAYCLUB and after hearing the previous singles (especially “Sad Summer”) I’m excited to take the whole album for a spin.

At the same time they’ve shared a new track from the record titled “Corydon Ave (To Meet You)” as well as a music video. The inspo for the song came from band member Courtney Carmichael spending time in fellow band member Nikki St. Pierre’s neighbourhood:
“Winnipeg’s Corydon neighbourhood, a culturally diverse nook in the city where Nikki spent his childhood. We’d often explore the area together, and along with being struck with the beauty of it, I became impossibly and unexpectedly struck by a new acquaintance who also happened to be from the area. Realizing the intense feelings and infatuation that quickly developed, the song took a deeply personal turn. It became an opportunity to create this world in which the two of us could be together, despite it being so fragile in reality. I was starting to explore my sexuality around this time and so there were also a lot of confusing, guilt-ridden feelings that came with it as well.”

The band has announced a few shows in Calgary, Quebec and Ontario, but alas, no Vancouver date yet.

Christine

“Right Now (Bouquet Version)” by Basia Bulat

Last week, Basia Bulat announced a new companion piece to her latest album with Bouquet.

The new EP is a handful of songs off Basia’s Palace reworked as delicate, acoustic versions featuring just vocals, guitar, and autoharp, with the first song being a new version of “Right Now”.

Basia says, “I always picture a child handing me a bouquet when I hear the first chords of this recording, a hand-tied bunch of wildflowers they picked walking on their way to the park. All the thought, care and excitement of making a gift from nature, finding something new in bloom, a flurry of dandelions and sticks and violets so perfectly imperfect, so it felt like it had to be the first song of the EP.”

Listen to the gorgeous “Right Now (Bouquet Version)” below, and keep an ear out for the full EP when it’s out on August 28th. AND make sure to catch Basia on tour, including a stop here in Burnaby at the Shadbolt Centre For The Arts on September 20th!

Kirk

“copycat” by Ada Lea

It hasn’t even been a year since Montreal’s Ada Lea released her last album, when i paint my masterpiece, but already we’re getting the first song off a brand new EP with “copycat”.

The single is guaranteed to get stuck in your head with its dance-y beat, as it reflects on friendship, comparison, and proximity. She explains, “In 2020, I’d just finished reading The Neapolitan Quartet. Lila and Lenu’s relationship felt like some of the close and maybe slightly unhealthy friendships in my life at the time. In the case of the quartet, Lenu is defined by Lila, her Brilliant Friend. Lenu is preoccupied by what Lila is doing, thinking… whom she’s loving. Lenu mythologises her, and in so doing diminishes herself and her work. Through the four books we come to feel that Lila is truly special and Lenu is just orbiting her. Everything seems a result of some proximity to Lila. Lila was always the source, never Lenu alone. But toward the end of the quartet, there’s a shift in Lenu as she reflects back on her life with Lila. So I wrote ‘copycat’ about that moment.”

Alexandra Levy also says for the new EP, she “wanted to combine songs that were cut from when i paint my masterpiece, as well as the ones I’d recorded a million years ago when I was just a child.”

You can watch the video for “copycat” below, and pick up the new EP, the end is a wave, when it’s out on August 12th!

Kirk