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Produced by Richard Swift (Foxygen, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Tennis, member of Shins and Black Keys backing band) - Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay of July Talk are creative directors on the project. - Born Ruffians released a beer with Muskoka Brewery called 'RUFF Draught' that is in liquor stores across Ontario, Manitoba, and throughout Atlantic Canadian provinces.

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Barry says: Born ruffians, sounding like the result of a late-nite tryst between rock and/or roll and the Dodos return for their newest LP since 2015's 'Ruff'. Jangling melodies and swirling vocals meet hazy guitars and reverbed percussion to make their latest outing their best by far. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

1. Forget Me
2. Miss You
3. Side Tracked
4. Fade To Black
5. Love Too Soon
6. Spread So Thin
7. Tricky
8. Ring That Bell
9. Working Together

The album is the follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize short-listed Ultramarine and their third album produced by Dan Lissvik (Studio, Atelje). Watch the trailer for Falsework here.

The winter of 2014/2015 took Young Galaxy from their studio in Montreal to Gothenburg and back. The band’s brilliant new full length Falsework completes the sound they have been mining on their past two albums Shapeshifting (2011) and Ultramarine (2013) with producer Dan Lissvik. The album is undeniably synth pop without the simplicity and was informed and inspired by 80’s electro, acid house and r&b, music that was well ahead of its time. Falsework was made using machines from the past to sound like music from the future.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wear Out The Ground
2. The Night Wants Us To Be Free
3. Factory Flaws
4. Body
5. Ready To Shine
6. Must Be Love
7. We’re No Good
8. Little Wave
9. Lean Into My Love
10. Pressure

In 2010, Jamison, the person behind Teen Daze, had no idea what Four More Years would bring. That debut EP, a collection of blissful home recordings, was the work of a carefree 24 year-old. By 2012, things had changed, as they tend to do: relationships dissolved, illness affected his family, windows for outward communication were closing. The gravity of it all made for constant output; he reached for futuristic utopia with All Of Us, Together, found a devotional sanctuary inside The Inner Mansions, and embraced hibernation on Glacier. In hindsight, this was an artist coping through various forms of introverted escapism.

While proud of the material, Jamison sought to break this cycle when approaching the next record. He knew it would take a few leaps of faith, most directly: out of his bedroom… out of his comfort zone. For the first time, he gave up some control, inviting the input of others. Bearing over 30 demos, Jamison joined one of his musical heroes John Vanderslice at Tiny Telephone, his all-analog studio in San Francisco. Beyond the immediate sonic advantages of recording to tape, the sessions with Vanderslice and co-producer Simon Bridgefoot encouraged a new positivity and confidence to his craft.

The result is Morning World, eleven fully built, balanced, and expressed songs, the most vulnerable and honest Teen Daze LP to date. Thematically, Jamison paints a familiar picture: a Garden of Eden, a place of transcendent, painfree beauty, but with one key distinction... it’s not real and time there is finite. With vocals boldly up front—surrounded by strings, piano, guitar, and live percussion—he details a realm that, for the first time, has room for more than one. “Where does life go when it’s done,” he poses in the closing moments of “Post Storm”, before lending an answer that evokes the omnipresent wisdom of All Things Must Pass: “a moon replaces morning sun.

TRACK LISTING

1. Valley Of Gardens
2. Pink
3. Morning World
4. It Starts At The Water
5. Post Storm
6. Life In The Sea
7. You Said
8. Garden Grove
9. Along
10. Infinity
11. Good Night

For Those Who Stay is PS I Love You's third album, and it was made after Paul quit Kingston for a different big smoke. It was encouraged by the girding strength of love but of course it's still dredging and confused, of course it's still resplendent in its churn. Of course the band had to go back to Kingston to record it - working at a place called the Bathhouse, the duo's first time in "a proper studio".

As always, PS I Love You's songs were the result of collage and experiment: "Advice" and "Friends Forever" were still being written until the moments they were recorded. But in the studio, Paul Saulnier says, with "fancy gear" and tons of time, they could wait until they "really nailed" the perfect part. "And I think we made a very indulgent and decadent album because of it."


TRACK LISTING

1. In My Mind At Least
2. Advice
3. Bad Brain Day
4. Limestone Radio
5. For Those Who Stay
6. Afraid Of The Light
7. Friends Forever
8. More Of The Same
9. Hoarders


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