Today, ALEXISONFIRE is excited to announce Otherness, the first full-length album in over 13 years from the band Rolling Stone declared “put Canadian post-hardcore on the map.” Otherness will be released on June 24 via Dine Alone Records. The album features 10 new tracks including the explosive first single, “Sweet Dreams Of Otherness” which can be heard HERE. The album is produced by AOF and mixed by punk stalwart Jonah Falco (Fucked Up, Career Suicide). Says George Pettit, “This song was largely Dallas’ brain child but over the course of writing this record it became more of a mission statement for the band. It’s kind of about performance and embracing a new found confidence in a state of peculiarity.”
(Toronto, ON – November 17, 2021) – Indie pop and ambient rock band TANDM return with a special single and music video for their new track “Warm Me Up”. Originally written as a Christmas song intended for an upcoming film/TV sync placement, the band loved how the recording turned out and wanted to share the song with fans ahead of the holiday season. “Warm Me Up” is about finding warmth in the company of others on Christmas.
(February 16, 2021) – Calgary-based TRENCH have shared the song “Be All End All” from their upcoming EP Encased in Chrome, out via New Damage on March 18.
“‘Be All End All’ explores the inner hatred of humanity that has consumed so many,” the band says. The track is a foreboding display of massive riffs, thunderous percussion, and rasping samples, all of which merge to create the soundtrack to a simple message: all is not lost. The listener is left remembering that “the balance of hate becomes the ‘Be All End All.'”
(Toronto, ON – October 20, 2021) – Canadian DIY outfit Respire, described as an “orchestral post-everything collective,” have debuted a video for “Catacombs Part II” via Consequence HERE. The compelling and fantastical video is produced by Vanessa Gloux who also oversaw the band’s clips for “Tempest”. “Catacombs,” arrives as the band has signed to Dine Alone Records, with both a digital re-release of the nine-song album available now and a vinyl version arriving in early 2022.
“’Catacombs Part II’ is about the ego’s destruction of nature, the collective, and inevitably, the self,” explains Egin Kongoli. “The human condition has long created false idols in its image, forsaking the natural world we co-inhabit for our self-gratification and self-aggrandizement. Our delusive mania for man-centric order now threatens to dislodge the entire pendulum of civilization and society. We have no one to blame but ourselves and our own egos. Our only salvation lies in community, in nature, and in finding what it means to live authentically as a collective.
Acclaimed indie pop band Lucius’ new song, “White Lies,” is out today—listen/share HERE.
Reflecting on the song, Jess Wolfe shares, “‘White Lies’ was the first song we wrote after I got divorced. It’s the laying in bed at night, cycling through the last 10 years of your life, wondering what was, what could be and why it wasn’t. It’s the moment right after you rip the band-aid off and are frantically pedaling backwards, trying to hold on to what’s left, if anything at all. ‘I just want to lie with you,’ the double meaning and double-edged sword; if only one last moment together could save you from a broken heart.”
“White Lies” is the second song unveiled from Lucius’ anticipated new album, Second Nature, which will be released April 8 on Dine Alone (Canada), Mom + Pop Music (U.S. and Mexico), and Second Nature Records/Secretly Distribution (RoW) [pre-order]. Produced by Dave Cobb and Brandi Carlile, Second Nature is a portrait of singer and songwriters Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe’s shared reflection, chronicling each other’s seismic life shifts—motherhood, divorce, unplanned career pauses—and setting it to music. Ahead of the release, new single, “Next To Normal,” recently debuted, of which Paste praises, “hyper-catchy choruses…with a timeless dance groove that does anything but overstay its welcome.”