P’tit Belliveau Talks About His New Album, Frogs, and Income Tax
By Stephan BoissonneaultJonah Guimond, better known in the music world as P’tit Belliveau, sent ruptures through the Francophone music industry last year when he announced that his upcoming third release would be independent and that he would be leaving the label, Bonsound. Now, almost a year since that announcement, P’tit Belliveau is back with his third album, […]
Alex Henry Foster Talks About Overcoming Death and his new album, Kimiyo
By Stephan BoissonneaultAlex Henry Foster, the orchestral post-rock provocateur, came back from the dead, literally, after a close call with his heart left him unable to talk, sing, or strum a guitar. During his recovery, he dove into his archives from multiple trips to Japan and found he had the basis for a film. Using his poetry, […]
BIG|BRAVE – A Chaos Of Flowers
By Alain BrunetWe’ve come to love Montreal trio BIG|BRAVE for its unique blend of hyper-saturation and folksy tunes inspired by Celtic tradition or Americana folk culture, which after all have very little to do with the metal aesthetic. A Chaos Of Flowers is the follow-up to Nature Morte, released in 2023. Comparisons with Chelsea Wolfe or Lingua […]
At Annie-Claude Deschênes’ table: between utensils & sound experimentation
By Louise JaunetAs a key figure of the Montreal independent music scene for almost twenty years, Annie-Claude Deschênes (PYPY, Duchess Says) is still driven by a constant need to create outside her comfort zone, to renew and grow through improvisation and provocation. Fuelled by a spontaneous creative impulse in her kitchen and hungry to take unplanned risks […]