Liam Gallagher and John Squire
Thirty years after the release of Oasis’ first album, the band’s lead singer Liam Gallagher is releasing an album with Stone Roses guitarist John Squire. The two Manchester artists have joined forces to create 10 songs in the Britpop movement, a genre they helped create. Californian Greg Kurstin, who has notably collaborated with Adele, Sia and Foo Fighters, participated in the production of the album.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
Pop rock
Liam Gallagher John Squire
Liam Gallagher and John Squire
Warner Music UK
Faye Webster
Another disc of 10 pieces, Underdressed at the Symphony is Faye Webster’s fifth album, and first in three years. The cathartic pen of the Atlanta singer, who comes from a family of musicians, once again offers a mixture of melancholy and humor on rock, country and R&B rhythms. Longtime friend rapper Lil Yachty contributes to the piece Lego Ring.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
Indie rock
Underdressed at the Symphony
Faye Webster
Secretly Canadian
Model Pussy
A quartet made up of three women and a man, Mannequin Pussy offers a fourth album which often hits hard – the drums rumble, the bass resonates, the guitar tears, the voice intoxicates –, but which sometimes also caresses the ear, especially at the start of course. The subject goes in the same direction, while it is a question of love and religion. The Philadelphia band will be performing in Toronto on May 11.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
Punk
I Got Heaven
Model Pussy
Epitaph
Yard Act
The British quartet had the difficult task of following up after The Overloadthe first record to receive a nomination for the Mercury Prize for best British album in 2022. Tinted with the same cynical humor, Where’s My Utopia? adopts a more danceable look, certainly attributable to the work of co-director Remi Kakaba Jr, of the Gorillaz. The result is frankly brilliant.
Pierre-Marc Durivage, The Press
Post-punk
Where’s My Utopia?
Yard Act
Island Records
Sorai
Member of MoKa, Robert Robert and Of Course, Jeanne Gagné, aka Soraï, offers a first solo album with rap and pop sounds. The Montrealer delivers committed and sensitive texts inspired by her last two years marked by ups and downs. La Monarque, Xela Edna and Mantisse are guests on the album that Soraï produced with the help of a few musicians, including Miro, Caracol, Eius Echo and Robert Robert. She will be performing on March 7, at the Ministry, in Montreal, with Passion Poire as the opening act, then at the Palais Montcalm, in Quebec, on April 6.
Pascal LeBlanc, The Press
Rap
Synesthesias
Sorai
Rosemarie Records