Red Mass, Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds, Motorists, and Multivitamines
Red Mass - Variants
Red Mass return with a collection of songs that have been reworked from their past. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any tunes in their back catalogue that bear the same names as the ones on Varients. Therefore I'm coming into this album blind, as if they’re all brand-spanking-new tracks. Although it would have been fun to hear how they changed, this really doesn’t matter because the album totally rules. Scrappy psychedelic garage aesthetics run rampant throughout Varients runtime with some tracks are that are totally fried and some that have ear-worm melodies. Hit play and melt away from reality with this wild psych statement.
Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Many Worlds
Free-jazz is dangerous. You get a group of gifted artists and ask them to improvise on the spot and hope something good will happen. It’s very fitting for Many Worlds, a record that explores dense ideas like time dilation and multiverse. Inspired by a horrific event in which MacKelvie could have easily lost his life. An event where he experienced a fraction of a second of real time drawn out into minutes and has had him pondering multiverse concepts ever since. The album captures these themes with improvised cosmic jazz and some haunting spoken word.
Motorists - Never Sing Alone
On Never Sing Alone, Toronto’s Motorists return with an easy-breezy collection of tunes that are making my Spring roll-in with a “spring.” On their third album, the quartet delivers delightful jangle-pop and persistent power-pop from start to finish. The vibes are so lovely that you can almost hear the trees starting to bud and the perennials beginning to poke up out of the soil.
Multivitamines - Soyons cléments
Multivitamines is the electronic instrumental project from drummer and producer JP Godbout (Gazoline, Karma Glider). I don’t usually go for electronic music that falls in the EDM realm and I don’t know anything about the many sub-genres of EDM so talking about Soyons cléments is difficult for me… but I like this record. It reminds me of 90s electronic music. It slaps hard and could have easily scored action films of the 90s or been the soundtrack to early racing games like Need For Speed. I’ve felt warm nostalgia while listening to Soyons cléments and would highly recommend you experience it too.
