Legion of Andromeda - Iron Scorn - VINYL LP

Jaywood - the nom de plume of Jeremy Haywood-Smith - is embracing new pastures having moved his music-making from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Montreal, and his new album Leo Negro chimes with a different tone as it looks to reconnect the self and grapple with one's identity. Marking a moment of meaningful change where controlled chaos takes the lead, it philosophises on what it truly means to be an experimentalist building a multi-faceted world where genre is infinite through sounds braver, more playful, and truthful than he's dared deliver before.Leo in name, although less by nature, the 11 'Jays' within feast on truth and uncertainty. Despite it's astute sampling with layers of twists and turns, Leo Negro doesn't showboat but roars in the presence of vulnerability as it considers one's absolutes as a way of navigating the identity crisis. InchAlways looking for attention, I admit it, I can't help it, I'm a Leo,Inch he reasons between vintage hip-hop scrubs on 'Pistachios,' recalling a childhood need to be the centre of attention then stepping out of the spotlight as a grown-up. InchLeos are confident and sure about themselves, but this record isn't that; so really, when translated, the title inspires 'black confidence.' It's an uncomfortable, weird, and surreal term which bends the truth and embodies everything within.InchExperimenting in both life and music, Leo Negro and it's first cut, 'Big Tings' (feat. California, art-pop duo Tune-Yards) couldn't be further from 2023's Grow On EP and the previous year's slick LP Slingshot. Moving with flow akin to D'Angelo with Toro y Moi textures, it's twinkling intro of whirling synth and playful approach circles back to Jeremy's adolescence when he'd reverse, slow down, and speed up his favourite songs through the media player on his computer. InchI love the idea of world building, making music away from reality,Inch he says. Inch

Toon Hagen - String Quartets [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/29/2013

For over 15 years now, Spanish metal inquisition Iron Curtain have been stalwart defenders of the faith. With a discography that includes four full-lengths and twice as many EPs, splits, and demos, Iron Curtain's ever-sturdy sound was forged in the fires of the early '80s largely nodding to the eternal Motörhead as well as Tank, but also Canadian gods like Exciter and Razor among others.