Nick Zubeck, Heavy Trip, Moscow Apartment, and Touching
Nick Zubeck - Venusian Blues
Graceful smatterings of colour make up the beautiful arrangements on Nick Zubeck’s new album, Venusian Blues. His songwriting is warm and meandering, and takes the time to wander around on musical passages for further pondering.
Heavy Trip - Heavy Trip
Put on your hiking boots and fill you backpack with everything you’ll need for a “Heavy Trip”. Be prepared for non-stop riffage, mind melting guitars solos, and grooves so deep that you can’t get out.
Moscow Apartment - Better Daughter
Brighid and Pascale of Toronto’s Moscow Apartment are just teens but their musical journey together began a decade ago. They put that long time connection into every song on Better Daughter, seemingly singing as one in a harmonious outpouring of indie-rock from the heart.
Touching - Isolation Blues
Separated from the distractions of the hustle, with nothing to pull your mind from the boredom and loneliness? Winnipeg’s Touching has an album for that. Isolation Blues meets you where you’re at and then lifts you out, singing “let me be lonely with you”.
- Jeshaiah David