This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
Canada gets a lot of stick for our overt niceness, being obsessed with hockey and a bunch of other ‘simple folk’ stereotypes—but people often forget that in between the maple syrup free-basing we do to distract from our colonial past/present, we also make a lot of really good music. This playlist highlights some of it, from coast to unceded coast.
“What a happy surprise to have new music from Daniel Bachman to start the year! Joyful tunes.”
“Earth Trip brings us another round of country-fried cosmos layered in brooding bass, dreamy slide and twangy jam. Every bit as compelling as Summerlong was last summer.”
“If you have to drive any further than a few KMs (or miles for y’all south of the border, eh), you're gonna want to have a good mix for a little dashboard drumming and open window karaoke running man.”
“My first exposure to Mount Eerie, didn't realize how often I would come back to the catharsis, and now the nostalgia of the simple worries from the before.”
A HI54 Mix CD made from all the cassette tapes I've found while dating someone who LOVES going to thrift stores A LOT. It can be slim picking in the cassette bins around here, but when you do find something, they're about a quarter each. And ain't nobody can complain about that.
“The guitar work on display here is just phenomenal. little waterfalls and whirlpools swirling around your head for 40 minutes. You can't beat that!”
“It’s not just the extensive vocabulary in his poems. It’s not just the wise n visceral imagery in his verses. I't’s not just the humor or incredible ear for production he brings to the table. Or the air of beautiful purpose felt in his words. It’s an all-encompassing balance of each of these wonders at once. This the type of album that will make a thinker act....and make an actor think.”
“Like a vivid & most pleasant dream, guitar notes suddenly appear twinkling all around, before slowly settling into a snug, winter warming ambient folk blanket. Honestly this album has made my weekend.”
Some music sounds better in places with broken toilets and uneven pool tables. That's just science.
“When trying to put together a playlist that ‘sounds like summer’, sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels ‘summer-ish’. This mix is full of those kinda tracks.”
