If you are into indie rock or alternative rock, then you’ve come to the right place today.
Päter – Fear of the Dead
After grabbing the attention of listeners internationally by posting original music online, Päter (Iran-born, Toronto-based Parmida Kakavand)’s debut single ‘Dam, Damn’ racked up over 2,000,000 streams on Spotify alone.
Two EPs and a string of self-directed visuals later, Päter is back with their debut LP project, ‘4-7 Company’. Teaming up with Vancouver producer Howard Redekopp (Tegan & Sara, Mother Mother), Päter explores the solitary hours between 4-7pm, when you’re “alone with your thoughts and anything can happen”.
As vulnerable as it is theatrical, the album sees Päter confidently navigating through their brightest and darkest storytelling yet. Päter will be embarking on their first Canada & U.S. tour in 2024 in support of the release.
You’ve never heard anything like this before:
Dinah (fka Dinah Thorpe) – Ferns
Toronto’s Dinah shares “Ferns,” a single highlighting her cathartic, Xiu Xiu-like vulnerability and curious fragility.
Throughout her life, Toronto-based Dinah Thorpe has been the singing jock–a polymath possessing two talents that others sought to set at odds. A gentle giant and keen basketball player, Dinah was kicked out of her school’s choir when she was young, told by her teachers that she wasn’t able to occupy both spaces. It’s only now–deep into her career as a musician–that Dinah realized just how wrong they were.
Dinah’s musical universe is home to both the emotional and the physical. “I put sad words inside of bangers,” she says, her smoky alto the essence of the visceral and melodic. With it, she weaves together politics, interpersonal relationships, and the natural world into music that itches and pulsates.
Critics have described Dinah, who previously performed as ‘Dinah Thorpe,’ as “a composer of infinite cleverness,” while comparing her to the likes of Portishead, Laurie Anderson, Dirty Projectors, and David Bowie. She has shared stages with Jeremy Dutcher, The Cliks, Sondre Lerche, Eternia, and Buck 65. In Toronto, she is a dedicated activist, an all-seasons cyclist, and a pick-up basketball player who’s happiest when the game is fast and the score is tied.
Alexa Louise – Professional
Alexa Louise is an Indie-Rock artist based in Los Angeles, CA. She said this song was written about her last job, but it feels like its about a whole lot more than a job.
HAVVK – Take It From Me
HAVVK originally formed in London in 2015, and have since split their time between London, Dublin and Berlin. They have collaborated with Belfast based producer Rocky O’Reilly (And So I Watch You From Afar, Touts, Brand New Friend) for the last two years to help develop their unique sound.
In addition to their musical endeavours, Julie has also co-founded SelfMade – a platform to explore DIY music in Ireland through performance, discussion, and art, and last year launched Female Fronted Drawn Together – a project through which she has created a playlist of admirable female bands/musicians and created an illustration to accompany each song.
Combining an abrasive edge with an exquisite finesse, activism is at the heart of all HAVVK create, with their music covering a range of topics including inequality, gender-preconceptions, and generalisations faced by different social groups.
Take It From Me is a takedown of the cartoonish scenarios of men speaking over women and taking credit for their ideas.