The Dandy Warhols
The Americans The Dandy Warhols are releasing today Rockmaker, a fundamentally rock album (its title indicates it) where a psychedelic hippy tint or a touch of electro is heard on occasion. None other than Slash, Debbie Harry and Black Francis occasionally join the band on this album which marks 30 years since the founding of the group (including 20 years since the release of its first album, Dandys Rule OK). Courtney Taylor-Taylor, through her writing and her voice acting, leads her quartet from the Portland scene on a trajectory that specialist critics seem to greatly appreciate.
Extract of I’d Like to Help You with Your Problem
Rock
Rockmaker
The Dandy Warhols
Sunset Blvd Records
Erika Angell
Over the years, Erika Angell has become a fixture on the Montreal indie scene, both within the group Thus Owls and as a regular collaborator with Patrick Watson. The composer and singer of Swedish origin has been putting her unique voice and artistic intelligence to the service of a multitude of projects for more than 10 years, and The Obsession with Her Voice is officially his first solo album. She takes her desire to create new textures and sounds even further, in an electronic and experimental framework that also includes strings and percussion. But the main instrument is certainly his voice, which is tweaked and transformed, but also often very serious, as if it came from the depths of his being. A strange and captivating journey.
Extract of Dress of Stillness
Experimental
The Obsession with Her Voice
Erika Angell
Constellation Records
Rita Tabbakh
A regular at musical comedies, Rita Tabbakh has slipped into the skin of others for 18 years, donning the vaporous ensembles of Scheherazade as well as the black dresses of Morticia in The Addams Family. This first album of original songs is very aptly titled I am mewhile the singer speaks under her name with a host of talented collaborators – Catherine Major, Eli Rose, Fanny Bloom, Alexandre Désilets, to name a few –, in addition to signing the song I lost myself with his friend Marc-André Sauvegeau. The album, produced by Jacques Roy (Dominique Fils-Aimé), is a celebration of feminine strength, a gentle call for kindness and love, and of course highlights the very pure voice of a performer who has things to say.
Extract of I don’t care (I’m me)
Song
I am me
Rita Tabbakh
Independent