#Canadian Musicians

[newwavesylviaplath]

something i struggle with deeply is the fact my mom was really close friends with this guy in highschool and he ended up being the drummer for a band that i really like and now that band (which granted, was already very popular) is starting to trend on tiktok cuz one of their songs was on the soundtrack for the movie 'i saw the tv glow' (along with scott pilgrim!) and now i have to live my life knowing my mom would like actively hang out with a member of a band that is so totally sick and i can already tell one day the girls i go to school with who made my life a living hell for the past two years straight are gonna start posting to the song being all like "u guys this is MY song 🥺🥺" and i'm just gonna have to deal with it silently.

[rocknrollflames]

Sundown

- Gordon Lightfoot

[canadachronicles]

My sister is coming home for a few days, and naturally this got me thinking of my favorite sisters, Tegan and Sara, and of Back In Your Head, which is Jules' favorite song of them. And I'm really fond of Cyndi Lauper cover!

[ladycharles]

This Friday my new song shall drop, presave here

And here's some of my older music if you haven't heard 💖

[gone2soon-rip]

GORDON LIGHTFOOT (1938-Died May 1st 2023,at 84).Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s.He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart,with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

[worldsfastestbear]

Folks are more familiar with the version by We Five, but Sylvia wrote it and recorded it with her husband first.

[ihavenothingtosayandimsayingit]

Discography Deep Dive: GY!BE

Part 1: Introduction

In their nearly 30 year history, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's contribution to the experimental/post-rock genre is nothing short of canon. The long sprawling tracks of gritty drones, anthemic oceans of guitars, soft touches of strings, poetic incorporation of field recordings all undergird moments of transcendent melancholy and even...hope.

In this first of what I hope to be an ongoing writing project called Discography Deep Dive, I explore the sonic and aesthetic world of these not-so-quiet Canadians. After listening to each record at least twice I came up with a rubric of sorts that places how each album fits within the overall canon of the 8 records I discuss. The criteria I use are specific to what I find to be specific to this band's particular compositional and orchestrational techniques.

Rubric

On a scale from 1-5 I use the following criteria with prompts I think about when looking through each lens: -

Mixing: How well is sonic balance achieved between the foreground, middle ground, and background textures? How well is the balance achieved between the different instruments (this is especially true when string or brass instruments are involved)? In such tracks that have field recordings; I ask how well are they incorporated into the overall mix.

Pacing: How does the pacing of ideas occur within each track? I'm especially listening for how the repetitive layers build to climactic points and/or when the remains static without much movement toward climactic moments. Is there a perceived consistent internal logic behind transitions between and ideas? Is there a balance between repetition, contrast, variation, and transformation.

Track ordering: This has to do more with narrative structure. All GY!BE heads will know right away, that what makes their work so engrossing is the compelling ways in which they move from one track to another. I ask if the track ordering is well-balanced, or in cases where there seems to be unbalance, are there sonic/artistic reasons why this happens? In a way, how do they play within their own meta-narrative of long-form developments through repetition -

Orchestration and texture: This component easily blurs with the mixing element. However, I am curious how each album manages to gain variety AND uniformity of texture. A balancing act that is required by the very sonic universe they inhabit.

Melodic ingenuity: This one came to me late in my assessment. But, as I've listened to each record now a few times, I've come to realize that there is A LOT more melodic/riff-like material than is heard on first listens.

Aesthetic consistency: There is no denying that GY!BE is its own aesthetic/vibe. From the downbeat of nearly every track, those who traverse in the post-rock world know straightaway: THIS IS GODSPEED!! However, each album All of these criteria seem to encapsulate the musical world of GY!BE. I am not comparing each album to broader musical genres, but rather how they hold up within the album itself and inside the complete discography.

Based on this rubric, here are the rankings:

Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (2012)

2. G_d’s Pee at State’s End (2021)

3. Luciferian Towers (2017)

4. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015)

5. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

6. F#A#♾️ (1997)

7. Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (1998)

8. Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

[pennanbrae]

Time to hit the road! New lyric video for ‘Paradoxial Recoil’, a 1970s influenced rock song off ‘The Garden Series’ double album.

[jorahssquire]

REST IN PEACE ROBBIE 😭

[premise29]

I thought Feist was really cute as a teenager, but never thought of her in a sexual way... She looks really good here.

On the other hand I found Peaches very off putting. I was a "good kid" and she was very blatant about her sexuality. I found it very vulgar. Apologies for being judgmental to the musician Peaches.

...Do many musicians do their mixing in shiny metallic bikinis?

FEIST & PEACHES IN THE STUDIO | early 2000s

[reportwire]

What to watch for at this weekend’s Juno Awards in Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

Some of Canada’s top music talents are headed to the Juno Awards in Edmonton this weekend. The annual celebration of homegrown music takes place over two nights in Alberta’s capital, with pop singer the Weeknd leading the nominees with six, though he’s not expected to attend. READ MORE: 2023 Juno Awards nominations: The Weeknd leads the pack with 6 Most of the trophies will be handed out…

[rocknrollflames]

Walking With a Ghost

- Tegan and Sara

[canadachronicles]

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Oh, I so wish I could be there and see them in Toronto! I miss them and my adoptive city so much!

Source: Tegan and Sara's Instagram Page

[ladycharles]

Noella, track 5 off Manic Pixie Dream World coming March 10th.

This is the upcoming album mix (by some extremely talented folks who worked with Bowie and the Shins), here's my older single mix I did myself in the meantime. The donkey in the background is also named Charlie btw.

[gone2soon-rip]

Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) - ‘If You Could Read My Mind’