When the darkness gets loud and confrontational: I Ya Toyah's FEELINGS is a hard-edged industrial statement that turns the mirror on modern humanity — biting irony, unapologetic force — while Apology doubles down with crushing riffs and hypnotic grooves, blurring the line between justified pain and dangerous entitlement. Montreal's The City Gates' Chimera pulls you into a nocturnal landscape of post-punk urgency and shoegaze atmospherics — brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of sound — while Coma Beach's A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending fuses punk's feral bite with Beckett-fueled existential cold precision. som som offers lo-fi relief with moody verses exploding into noise-pop euphoria, and Taste Lips keeps the post-punk energy surging with upbeat riff-driven grit.
Slippery When Wet
Truck Stop Annie: Ballad of the Lot Lizard
A tune based on an erotic short story of the same name, about a beautiful lizard shapeshifter who feeds on unsuspecting truckers looking for a good time.
Dave Digger and the Free Factory
Parolled Soul
a mishmash of rock and soul, indie, acoustic, psychadelia with the odd electronic beat thrown in here and there
The City Gates
Capitol Hill
Montreal's The City Gates deliver a jangly post-punk tune with shoegazed guitar whirls and a driving pulse.