“Angel So Bad” by True Mountain Laurel

True Mountain Laurel has finally released their first single!

If you’ve been following the new musical partnership of Sam Lynch and Haley Blais, they’ve played a few live shows (including one where they played their upcoming album in full) but now we have solid news with the first single, “Angel So Bad”.

The title track of the new album features their voices intertwining beautifully, backed by folk-y guitars, with Blais saying, “When we finished writing ‘Angel So Bad’, I could tell it was going to be the inspiration for the world of the project and the rest of the songwriting process. It’s tongue in cheek but earnest; it crosses its fingers while it tells the truth.”
With Lynch adding, “Although it wasn’t the first song we wrote together, ‘Angel So Bad’ felt like the true starting point of whatever this project was meant to be. The song started as a conversation about gossip, and slowly turned into a cheeky exploration about how exhausting it can feel to constantly try to be a perfectly good person all the time.”

The new album, Angel So Bad, drops on August 28th, and you can listen to the lead single below!

Kirk

“I Want You (To Break My Heart)” by Hawk And Steel

Victoria’s Halk And Steel are creeping closer to the release of their first album in a decade and a new single is out now.

Ain’t Never Movin’ On is set to drop on June 26th, but the second single “I Want You (To Break My Heart)” is out right now.
Their first single saw the addition of some friends on backing vocals, organ and saxophone, this one has the addition of Marc Jenkins on petal steel.

I’m excited to hear the whole collection of songs together when it’s released later this month.

Christine

“When You Catch Me” by Jets Overhead

Last year, Victoria’s Jets Overhead started an ‘archive campaign’ to celebrate the bands history, which included the release of a rarities and demos album, Ordinary Dreamers.

Lucky for us, while they were in the process of doing that, the band was inspired to get back into the studio and have released a brand new song, “When You Catch Me”, an incredibly catchy song with immaculate harmonies, that feels like classic Jets Overhead.

They’ve promised this was just the first new single, so keep your ears open for more to come.

Kirk

“Smiling” by Miesha and The Spanks

With their new EP on the horizon, Calgary duo Miesha and The Spanks has released their latest single “Smiling”.

Musically, the song is a banger that needs to be cranked, but fittingly that belies the deeper nature of the lyrics. Written as a way to work through some tough times, and having to put on a brave face, Miesha explains “For the last couple of years my mom has been fighting what's now stage 4 cancer. I've been putting on this face that everything's fine - mostly for my kids, but also just to stay sane. You wouldn't know she was sick to see her, because she's just so strong - and of course I know that's a loaded thing to say, because for all I know, she's just smiling through it as well.”

The EP VISIONS is out September 18th, and you can watch the video for “Smiling” below.

Kirk