A choir boy gone rogue, Fox Revett is a multi-instrumentalist inspired by classic singer-songwriters and ahead-of-the-curb hyperpop trailblazers. His music explores themes of love, loss, sex, and isolation.

“I Think I’m Missing” is a true pop gem, blending textural and experimental instrumentation. Oftentimes we sacrifice our hopes and dreams in the pursuit of something easier, and with that comes a loss of self. So many of us felt displaced, isolated, and experienced loss in these last few years. This song speaks to that feeling of not knowing who or where you are now. 

Fox Revett is working with Canadian music heavy-weights Adrian Morningstar (Birds of Bellwoods), Jack Emblem (Jesse Gold, Daniel Caesar), and Vic Florencia (Olivia Rodrigo) on his debut collection.

Indie folk songwriter and producer, Mike Legere is an indie-folk songwriter and producer now based out of Toronto, ON. After years spent playing with bands like Century Thief and Places Erupt, he embarked on his solo career in 2018. Soon after he began work on his new music, the studio he was working as an engineer at was destroyed by a flash flood. He took this chance to take an extended stay at his family cottage in Fox Harbour (now lovingly referred to as Quarantine Cottage) to write music. 

At the end of an eight year relationship, Legere started writing the title track, “Memory Forming Clouds,” of his upcoming LP of the same name. He was sleeping on a futon during a heat wave, having daily panic attacks, and feeling like the world was collapsing around him. He wrote the verses gradually over a month-long period, as a way of making sense of the experience. 

“When I first started writing the song, I felt sick to my stomach,” explains Legere. “Just processing the words and the intention of that fact that I had chosen to leave what was once a home, and a person who was my home for close to 10 years. I naturally felt out this staccato pulsating on my sister’s classical guitar, it felt like it mirrored my slightly inclined body leaning apprehensively forwards, fighting off a panic attack.”

The album was self-produced, and one of Legere’s intentions was to make sure he brought in some of his talented musician friends for this one, since he had made a point of doing the last one more independently. He brought in his pals Omar Shabbar, Colin McNalley, Adam Reid and Kathryn Kearns from Century Thief, his friend Greg O’Toole from Places Erupt, and a cellist he’d met on tour, Raphael Weinroth-Browne. With such a sentimental album, it only made sense to invite his pal Dante Matas, his brother Stewart Legere who played their grandfather’s old accordion for one of the songs, and his old friend from childhood Ryan McNeillwho  came up to the cottage to visit me for a night and he added a guitar lick to the chaotic bridge in “Memory Forming Clouds.”

Montréal based indie pop duo Down With Space are vocalist/guitarist Rob Helsten and drummer Steve Dumas – the partnership of an English speaker (Helsten) and a French speaker (Dumas) who have found an understanding through music when language can sometimes elude communication. 

“Nostalgia Knows Best” is their bouncy new single about embracing the past and looking to the future. Things change, people come, people go, but in the end it’s not really that different; life goes on and it’s all good. We figure it out.

As experienced audio engineers, it’s only natural that they have adopted a DIY ethos to keep their process in house while creating sounds that are equally balanced between synthesis and organic instruments. As a first for the band, this track has no guitars, it’s synth through and through.

Brampton hard rock band, Perfect Strangers, consists of a mixture of roaring guitars with heavy rock riffs that will blow your mind, songs with meaning and emphasis on feeling, and modern indie/alternative twists in the vocals and compositions.

Following the success of their debut self-titled EP earlier this year, the independent band is changing the tempo with “A Song For You.” Though it’s inspired by lead songwriter Anthony Vitanza’s relationship with his girlfriend, the band wants listeners to feel a connection to their own love story when they hear it. 

“Our last release was our debut release. We were throwing all the chips in and going all in,” says Vitanza. “It was a hard rock EP, four fast rock songs. Now with this we change the pace a bit and introduce fans and listeners to a new sound that we are incorporating into our music. But! it won’t be changing our old sound either – it’s just an extra bit of dynamics to the discography.”

Toronto based singer-songwriter Liam Barrack takes a unique approach to his debut single “Sick Kisses” — a song about a girlfriend who left him with a broken heart and a bad cold.

The song was written in response to a play that his ex-girlfriend wrote about the end of their relationship. It was Liam’s first serious relationship and the song can also be taken quite literally since he got sick from spending time with her during their last week together. 

Even though it marked the end of his relationship, Liam fell in love with pop music and wrote his first pop song. 

“Most of the time when I write a song it’s kind of like therapy for me – a good way of objectifying my problems so I can experience them as an entity separate from myself,” explains Liam. “In writing this song, I solidified what I want in love.”

Freak folk artist L.T. Leif (they/them) is rooted in the self-sufficient spirit of their hometown of Calgary, though they have carried their wandering curiosity all over the world. Now living in Glasgow, they are an adopted member of the Scottish DIY music scene whose life and art has been heavily shaped by northern landscapes and climes.

The first single, “Pass Back Through” is from their upcoming album, Come Back To Me, But Lightly (Jan 2023). 

Leif had just gone through a painful loss before writing this song, and it was dredging up their unresolved issues from the past. They were struck by the harsh way that lessons seem to repeat themselves ad nauseam, reformatting themselves but coming at you over and over. “Pass Back Through” is an image of endurance that is flexible and moving: you still have a life to live. That path you’re walking isn’t linear – sometimes it’s all circles, and that’s ok.

“There are a lot of images of the quiet night world – there’s a smallness I would feel when walking in the cold Finnish nights that brought a kind of clearness or release,” Leif explains about the song’s imagery. “There’s this feeling I sometimes got when a bird would fly low over my head from behind, like they were somehow a thought of mine that was bursting forth and flying off, fading out there into the distance… I can get really mired in my own thoughts, and there’s like a release, or a lift that comes when you can let the rich pain and pleasure of the world just be.”