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By: Staff – Montreal-based indie trio Braids have released a new video for their track “Snow Angel”, which you can watch below. The band have also announced their decision to push the release of their new album Shadow Offering to June 19th due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Snow Angel” serves as a powerful opus that features singer Raphaelle … Continue reading
Photos by: Kelsey Giesbrecht – Montreal-based art rock trio Braids, who released their third album, Deep In The Iris, on April 27th, 2015, which scored a short-list nomination for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, and which followed up their 2013 album Flourish // Perish, (out August 20th, 2013 via Arbutus Records/Full Time Hobby/Flemish Eye), performed at Lee’s Palace … Continue reading
By: Laura Beaulne-Stuebing – Next to the main stage, constructed out of white tape and fashioned onto a fence, were the words “Girls to the front,” spelled out large enough for a crowd gathered up close for a band to see clearly. The statement resonated, the perfect few words to catch out of the corner of the eye for … Continue reading
Photos by: Kayla Baker – Baltimore-based indie folk-rock duo Wye Oak, who released their fourth album, Shriek, on April 29th, 2014 via Merge/City Slang, performed at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on May 11th with Montreal-based art rock trio Braids, who released their second album, Flourish // Perish, on August 20th, 2013 via Arbutus Records/Full … Continue reading
Photos by: Neil Van – Canadian experimental pop group, Braids, who released their second album, Flourish // Perish, on August 20th via Arbutus Records, performed at The Great Hall in Toronto last Friday.
By: Lauren Garbutt (@LaurenGarbutt1) – During day 2 of NXNE, we saw budding Toronto-based “chillwave pop” quartet DIANA at The Horseshoe, Montreal-based electronic band Braids, who released their new 12″ single In Kind // Amends, last month, and Montreal-based electronic-pop duo Blue Hawaii at The Silver Dollar. Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning, who just performed with the aforementioned musical collective … Continue reading
By: Sam Rashid (@thisissamrashid) – The Montreal-based Braids, which features Blue Hawaii’s Raphaelle Standell-Preston, creates a fountain of electronic whims and melodies on their new EP, In Kind // Amends, out June 11 via Flemish Eye Records, which serves as a predecessor to their forthcoming sophomore LP, which is due out this fall. In Kind // Amends breaks … Continue reading
By: Elena Gritzan – The title of Blue Hawaii’s debut full-length serves as a thesis statement for the lyrical content and emotional themes that it explores. Untogether. The not-quite-a-word encapsulates the separation anxiety and emotional disconnect expressed in the project, written long-distance by Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Alexander Cowan. Standell-Preston first made her mark as the voice behind BRAIDS, … Continue reading
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