Songs of the Week: March 02 - 08, 2026
“Time Is A Bomb” by Metric
With a brand new album on the way, Metric is giving us another tease with the latest single, “Time is a Bomb”
The hard driving song feels like peak Metric, with an explosive chorus where Emily Haines proclaims how much she loves to flirt with disaster, as she explains: “Say what you want about the wellness boom, I think it’s a natural response to the unrelenting awareness we have of our mortality. The feeling of wanting to hold on and make time stop while simultaneously doing everything you can to max out your fleeting vitality - this song expresses that inner tension. I love my life and I’m truly amazed that I made it to my happily ever after, but I don't want to spend the time I have left being boring, obsessing over consequences and hiding from fun. I don’t expect to be jumping off speaker stacks or crowd surfing like I used to, but it’s still too soon to say never.”
Combined with the first single, I am incredibly excited to hear the rest of the album! Romanticize The Dive is out on April 24, and in June they kick off the dream tour with Broken Social Scene and Stars!
Kirk
“This Old House” by The Washboard Union
BC’s The Washboard Union are back with a new single and new plans for more touring in the UK.
“This Old House” muses about the memories that come with homes - be it childhood, or your first as an adult or with a new family.
“Thinking of the old house I grew up in brings memories rushing back in,” said David Roberts. “Empty rooms and bare walls come alive with laughter, struggles, secrets, and dreams. My childhood held safe under one roof — the old house I used to live in — now it lives within me.”
The band heads back to Europe in May and are also set to perform in Spain and Germany in late fall - but hopefully there will be some local shows we can catch as well!
Christine
“Gonna Be Free” by Jenn Grant
On Friday, Jenn Grant released her latest album Queen of the Strait and celebrated with a brand new video for “Gonna Be Free”.
Co-starring her adorable dog Bird, the video was filmed on a frozen lake near her home in Lake Echo, NS, and “captures the stillness and quiet resilience that shape the song’s spirit”
Jenn shares, “Shapes and symbols have always held important significance to me. I use them in my art when I'm painting, as well as in my daily life, to actively cultivate hope, magic and strength. My first postpartum story was all about me finding my feet again. It was a great challenge, but it also brought me growth and a new perspective on what really matters to me. This pattern of symbols revealed in the snow represents the values I hold dear. Deep thanks to tattoo artist Jason Francis at Super Rad Not Bad Tattoos in Bedford, NS, for gifting me this piece. Shout-out to Bird, my beautiful co-star and forever sweet baby girl. You are the queen of my life.”
You can pick up the album now (but only on bandcamp!) and I would highly recommend checking out her current tour, which is a multimedia experience called Cradled by the Waves (or read about it here, if you missed the Vancouver show).
Kirk
“Time’s Easy To Blame” ft. Kim Churchill by Mia Kelly
Fittingly on her first Australian tour, Quebec’s Mia Kelly has just released a song that features Australian musician Kim Churchill.
“Time’s Easy To Blame” was released last week just as the duo are set to head out on a Canadian tour together starting from Quebec and ending in BC.
The sweet song is a reflection on “growing up, falling in love, and navigating the inevitable mistakes that come with figuring life out. [It] captures the push and pull between youth and responsibility.”
Mia says about this track: "I was quite young when I wrote this song and was learning to find the balance between travel and home, between friends and lovers, all the learning, all at once."
Her new album, Big Time Roller Coaster Feeling (love that name!) is to be released on May 22nd, so I expect more new music will be shared throughout their time on tour.
Christine
“Bones” by Status/Non-Status
Seems I’m picking all the sweet and reflective songs for this week!
Status/Non-Status released their new album Big Changes on March 6th and with it dropped their latest single “Bones”.
Lead singer Adam Sturgeon says this of the track: “Post-colonial psychology and psychosis is a large frame of reference for me and my writings. Bones is another dive into and through the past to see where we have come and what is still very much out of our control. It’s an isolating feeling to feel the effects and how little our accomplishments have seemed to change things. Same old story, just a different day. From the fur trade to a doom scroll, what can I do to redirect my path, forge my own trail and exist in a way that connects me to a meaningful existence?”
I’ve really enjoyed all of the singles so far and am excited to take a bigger deep dive into Big Changes now that it’s out in the world.
Christine
