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Radio Zeitgeist: Newly waxed Wet Leg, Kae Tempest, Envy of None, Orville Peck, and Father John Misty
By Will McGuirk
Its all teenage kicks undertones for Wet Leg; the Isle of Wight duo debut their album Friday, chock full of chunky vox driven rock n rollers.
On the other side of the age bracket Alex Lifeson of Rush is in Envy of None, a misnomer I suspect for fans of the iconic CDN rock trio he is known for.
Father John Misty marries a mod approach to his country rock with the very stylish ‘Chloë and the New Century’
Orville Peck is as much an anomaly at Misty, moreso due to the masking, but one can say the chap is wrangling for a hit, hellbent for leather and going for baroque, on his sophomore, ‘Bronco’.
‘The Line is a Curve’ is the latest from the multi-dimensional Kae Tempest. On the single “I Saw Light” they join with Fontaines DC lead Gian Chatten for a chatty intercourse over a succulent body wave beat.
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: The Gertrudes, Sarah Hiltz, Busty and the Bass + Cadence Weapon, Scott Hardware, Skeggs, The Night Owls, Harrow Fair, and Wet Leg
By Will McGuirk
"... The Gertrudes' "Boys' Town" music video reflects on the 1969 documentary "Dear Landlord", Directed by Dennis Crossfield and featuring nationally renowned activist Joan Kuyek, who analyse Kingston's housing crisis at that time. Unfortunately, not much has changed. Kingston's housing continues to be in short supply — historically, the city has had some of the lowest vacancy rates in the province." - Greg Tilson
“We are all human beings meant to experience the breadth of human emotion, including anger. That doesn’t have to be negative or even divisive. It’s true it might be uncomfortable, but discomfort and danger are not the same thing." - Sarah Hiltz
"finding a way to allow yourself to truly relax and disconnect in the age of the notification." - Cadence Weapon
“The night I wrote it, I was in a mad rush against my own urge to self-censor, the lyrics bare no mystery or even much poetry. More than that, they're honest in a way that STILL makes me uncomfortable. Being able to get them out before I could stifle this loud and proclamation of love was a big deal for me as a songwriter and as a person." - Scott Hardware
"I think I wrote it a while ago, being in a mood where it's epic to try and ride out your ambitions and try and always look back when you kook it at life, and say I will try to be better, be a better friend, better partner, get better at getting better,” - Ben Reed, Skeggs
“We like to play music at night. The only thing that matters is each other, because in those times we feel like there’s only the two of us in the universe.” - the Night Owls
Chastity
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Chastity, Cots, Kyla Charter, Ellen Froese, Charlotte Day Wilson, Begonia, Rachel Bobbitt, Wet Leg, and Sam Weber,
By Will McGuirk
“It's about the feeling of not being heard, and just wanting to escape the cycle of thought - planning your next move, and thinking and thinking about what you could say to make them hear and understand you.” - Ellen Froese
“I was taught to believe that there was always a right or wrong and beyond that, that there was a heaven and hell waiting for us after we die and we just had to live our lives accordingly to end up in either place. I had a lot of fear of screwing up and a lot of fear of the unknown. As I've grown, all of those binary ways of thinking have more or less been shattered.” - Begonia
Wet Leg
Radio Zeitgeist: Hear tracks by Wet Leg, the Beaches, Grouplove, Inspiral Carpets, The The, and Lissie
By Will McGuirk
Radio Zeitgeist spotlights the best of this week’s vinyl releases. This week we spotlight tracks by Wet Leg, the Beaches, Grouplove, Inspiral Carpets, Lissie, plus a whole lot more. Dig in. It is available on the Spotify platform. Subscribe, Follow, Like, whatever it is they do do it there. We have been doing the RZ roundup for a while so there’s an archive too.
Kevin Drew A Picture, but not this one ^, this is a photo by Colin Medley
Slowcity.ca Open Mike with K.D.A.P., Wet Leg, Art d'Ecco, Slow Death Lights, Nick Ferrio, Cowboy Junkies, Bobbo Byrnes, and Bad Waitress
By Will McGuirk
“It's about understanding the obstacles we set up in front of ourselves. Personal deception and self-sabotage. It's about opening up and trying to figure out how to be a better human being, be more vulnerable.” - Nick Ferrio