“Cherry Pit” by Alexandria Maillot

Alexandria Maillot is back with a their first new music in six years(!) sharing the brand new single, “Cherry Pit”.

The song features Maillot’s dreamy voice over a synthy beat, and on their instagram Alexandria shared some heartfelt words, saying: “Being diagnosed with cancer in my twenties, just as pandemic measures were easing, meant entering into a type of prolonged quarantine that I wasn’t sure I would ever find my way out of. I have held onto this song like a comfort blanket; Hooked up to a chemo bag, nauseous and weak, the thought of music became a daydream I’d swim in over and over, poison turned to fuel.
Cherry Pit is a song. It is also a new chapter, and I am so grateful you are here to share in the turning of the page with.”

“Cherry Pit” is the first song off their upcoming album, Cryptomnesia, so keep an ear out for more!

Kirk

“Concrete” by PUP

Right on the heels of PUP’s latest album Who Will Look After the Dogs? getting the Polaris Music Prize Long List nod (and the track “Hunger For Death” nabbing a spot on the SOCAN Polaris Song List) the band has released an awesome new video for the track “Concrete”.

The video is “an entirely handmade, analog stop-motion video which features 2,300 frames of animation by artists, with every frame a different page from a magazine” which took almost a year to make and gives big “UnAmerican” by Said The Whale vibes.

Apparently touring hasn’t seen the band kill each other yet (IYKYK) and they’re on the summer festival circuit right now in UK and returning to North America for late summer and early fall.

Christine

“Cinnamon Heart” by King of Foxes

Edmonton’s King of Foxes recently announced their fifth studio album, and dropped a video for the new song “Cinnamon Heart”.

Produced by notable names Howard Redekopp and Erik Nielsen, the new song is bouncy & catchy, with songwriter Olivia Street explaining, “This is a song about desire: wanting everything, and not really knowing what to do with it once you get it. Remember those candygrams we used to send each other back in school? Sweet, spicy, irreverent… Everything felt heightened back then, and the song taps into that same energy: wanting too much, needing attention, chasing a feeling.”

You can pick up the fantastically named album, Someday You’ll See Yourself as Others Surely Do, A Thing to Leave Behind, on September 29th, and check out the video for “Cinnamon Heart” below!

Kirk