The Torontonian is back with a collection of bangers almost four years after his first album, Girls Like Mewho found himself on the shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize in 2021. Today, the self-proclaimed pagan-punk poet offers an equally remarkable record, where the mystical and the emotions come together in a surge of rebirth and, above all, a true freedom of tone. Shake Me Where I’m Foolish — named after a line from a poem by Carl Sandburg, Baby Song of the Four Winds — thus resonates like a succession of rock’n’roll prayers recited by this rebellious creature of Gaelic ancestry (the information is important!) to ward off the bad fate of earthly life. We particularly like that NYSSA invites us into its many imaginary universes, which are all connected by a desire for communion. Let’s salute the awesome Breakup Partywhich subtly summons Led Zeppelin and smells of the 2000s, but also the very different and nevertheless delectable My Gemini And The Initiate.
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