Past Releases

Elaquent "Forever Is A Pretty Long Time (Mello)"

From Mello Music
As with all brilliant producer compilation albums, the Guelph, Ontario-based Elaquent vividly constructs his own world. It’s the hip-hop equivalent of that old question: who would you want to invite to your dream dinner party if you had the chance? But instead, it’s the lab, and the visitors include a murderer’s row of underground MCs including Oddisee, Blu, Chester Watson, Cavalier, and Guilty Simpson. The curation is impeccable, but more than that, it creates its own orphic sense of magic. After all, art is closer to voodoo than science, and here, the rappers sound legitimately inspired by the productions. It’s an album possessed with smoke-wreathed jazz cool and urgent immediacy — as though as soon as the artists heard the instrumentals, they immediately set pad to pen. 
Check out “Guidelines (feat. Oddisee)”

Sarah Harmer "Are You Gone (Rough Trade Publishing)"

It has been a decade since singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer has released an album. But it doesn’t take much time listening to Are You Gone to figure out that her skills are as sharp as ever. Nay! Even sharper! (I’m writing this blurb, so I get to make fun statements like that! Jealous?). This collection, thematically, is a real examination at human nature-and sonically its as varied as, well, human nature. Folk, indie rock, alt-country, this one has it all, and each one is more beautiful and rewarding than the one before it (like cookies!). So check out the first single “New Low” for a new high!

Post Animal "Forward Motion Godyssey (Polyvinyl)"

Look. I like all kinds of music. I really do. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be in this business. However, my favorite records are the ones that tend to make me think “OOH! THIS SOUND PROG-Y.” Well, Post Animal, I really liked your prior albums by hot damn if I don’t LOVE Forward Motion Goddesey (Polyvinyl). Wanna know why? I bet you can guess! That’s right! They went prog! Killer riffs in odd-time signatures, mysterious lyrical slants, songs oscillating between quiet and slow, and then turning into loud heavy songs. Songs with strings! Technical prowess! It’s like Nonagon-era King Gizzard meets Kansas meets War On Drugs meets Tool meets my ears in a VERY pleasing way. Like all good albums, you really should just listen to the whole thing but if you wanna get hyped then check out the first track “Your Life Away” and if you aren’t boppin’ that head about by the end then you should probably get checked out because this is living baby!

Nada Surf "Never Not Together (Barsuk)"

You know, we’d like to think that the name of the newest Nada Surf album Never Not Together (Barsuk) is in reference to us. After all, BRM historians know that they were the first band we ever got a license for! So in reality, we’ve never not been together with Nada Surf, and we wouldn’t have it any other way! The hooks! The guitars! The rock! The pop! There is very little we can say about Nada Surf that we haven’t said a million times before–so start with album opener “So Much Love” for the happiest love song of the year.