Tuesday Guide: September 22 edition

MIKA
The Boy Who New Too Much
www.mikasounds.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada


Enveloped in an imaginative musical world of his own creation, he is one of the few British male pop stars of his age that doesn’t run with the pack. Mika opened his pop career with the defining single "Grace Kelly." It has sold almost 3million copies worldwide and was only the second British single to top the chart on downloads alone. His total single sales from Life In Cartoon Motion add up beyond six million. Mika’s sparkling new album The Boy Who Knew Too Much featuring the single “We Are Golden” comes in Standard and Deluxe Editions. The 2nd cd on the deluxe edition includes a FULL live performance from Sadler’s Wells theatre in London and features all of MIKA’s hits from Life In Cartoon Motion and more! Guests on the new album include The Seawind Horns (Thriller, Off The Wall), Imogen Heap, Owen Pallet (Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire) and Stuart Price.


SEAN KINGSTON
Tomorrow
www.seankingston.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada


Sean Kingston’s second album aptly titled Tomorrow, reflects the 19-year-old’s growth as a person as well as his evolution as a singer, songwriter, and entertainer. It is a buoyant collection of pop-fueled feel-good anthems and dance-floor clarion calls that bumps everything from electro-pop (the club-banging first single “Fire Burning”) to rock (“Shoulda Let U Go” featuring Good Charlotte), to reggae (the breezy “Island Queen”), to R&B (“Wrap U Around Me”).
“I called it Tomorrow because the album is about everything that’s happened to me over the past two years and how much I’ve grown and changed since my debut came out,” says Sean. “The songs are about me being hopeful and looking toward the future. We don’t know what tomorrow holds for us.”


HARRY CONNICK JR.
Your Songs
www.harryconnickjr.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada


HARRY CONNICK, JR.’s career has been studded with awards and recognition, including several multi-platinum and gold albums, 25 million albums sold around the world, Grammy®, Tony® and Emmy® Awards; Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations, and so much more. On his new album, for the first time in his career Harry Connick, Jr. teamed up with a record company producer and that producer is none other than the legendary CLIVE DAVIS. Harry says “Clive expressed an interest in working with me but I didn’t know what that meant because I had never done a collaboration before.” Davis’s concept was to put together a program of classic songs that were both as familiar and as contemporary as possible. Those tracks include versions of: Elvis Presley "I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You," The Beatles "And I Love Her," Nat King Cole "Mona Lisa," Tony Bennett – "Who Can I Turn To?," Frank Sinatra "All The Way," Billy Joel "Just The Way You Are," The Carpenters "(They Long To Be) Close To You," Elton John "Your Song," Don McLean "And I Love You So" and Charlie Chaplin "Smile."


DAVID GRAY
Draw The Line
www.davidgray.com
Dist: Fontana North


His most captivating work to date, Draw The Line is the rich, warm, organic sound of David Gray reborn and starts a new chapter in the storytelling for which he is known. Recorded in London, and produced by the artist himself, David Gray’s voice and songwriting are as distinct as ever on the release, showcasing the intensity with which he performs. Ripe with melancholic beauty, key tracks on the album include the glorious sublimely layered “Fugitive,” the album’s lead single, the pensive “Draw The Line” and the emotive composition “Nemesis.” Also featured on the album are two duets not to be missed with Jolie Holland and Annie Lennox.

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Artist: David Gray
Track: Fugitive




LIGHTS
The Listening
www.myspace.com/lights
Dist: Universal Music Canada


Coming off a hugely successful self titled EP and with the popular singles “Drive My Soul” and “February Air”, the Toronto Based, 2009 Juno Award Winning New Artist Of The Year LIGHTS releases her highly anticipated full length debut album. Featuring the first single “Saviour” - which is already charging the charts, the album also includes her previous singles.


QUEEN LATIFAH
Persona
www.queenlatifah.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada


Queen Latifah is one of music’s most well respected rappers and artists. Showcasing her undeniable talent, her latest album Persona brings together the two worlds of Hip Hop and Pop creating an electrifying new sound for the Queen. Persona is executive produced by award winning producers Cool and Dre with additional production by producer and artist Pharrell Williams. The album features guest appearances by Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Blige and Serani among others. The first single is “Cue The Rain.”


CORB LUND
Losin' Lately Gambler
www.myspace.com/officialcorblund
Dist: Universal Music Canada


Corb Lund was born and raised in rural Southern Alberta. He has been singing about his country upbringing for more than a decade on critically acclaimed albums such as Five Dollar Bill (2002) and Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer (2005). Corb Lund's new album Losin’ Lately Gambler is propelled by a galloping stand-up bass, electric guitar and is set to Corb's Jack London-esque yarns about down-and-out cowboys, whiskey and ranching. The sound is tough to categorize but the mix of roughnecks, bikers, bankers, and ranch hands you’ll see drinking and standing shoulder to shoulder at one of his concerts will all agree, Corb Lund is authentic.


YOKO ONO
Between My Head And The Sky
www.myspace.com/officialyokoono
Dist: F.A.B.


At 76 years young, Yoko continues to kick ass with Between My Head & The Sky, a career-defining album made with her new Plastic Ono Band. The record is a gorgeous, mind-melting blend of styles, restating and sharpening themes while plunging into the always-mysterious future. Raw rockers, electronic pulse glimmers, dark late-night improvisations and heart-breaking elegiac ballads - Yoko takes a variety of textual approaches on this beautifully balanced collection of work. The band includes Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada and his band members Yuko Araki and Shimmy Shimizu, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto) as well as NYC improvisers Erik Friedlander, Shahzad Ismaily, Michael Leonhart, Daniel Carter and Indigo Street. The double vinyl edition features deluxe packaging.


ALBERTA CROSS
Broken Side Of Time
www.albertacross.net
Dist: Fontana North


Broken Side Of Time, is a cathartic kaleidoscope of influences from Depeche Mode to The Band. Grand in its volume and vast in its vision, it is an inspired set of electric songs that finds the intersection between the Verve, My Morning Jacket and Neil Young. The album arrives on the heels of their acclaimed EP The Thief and the Heartbreaker, which earned the band UK touring slots with Oasis, The Shins and Bat For Lashes, and widespread critical praise. Founded by guitarist/vocalist Oetter Ericson Stakee and bassist Terry Wolfers, Alberta Cross took shape when the two began jamming together in London’s east end. The two moved to New York City in 2008 in pursuit of renewed creative energy and new challenges. Broken Side Of Time is born of the struggles and setbacks the band faced along the way. TG: AWESOME!

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Artist: Alberta Cross
Track: Old Man Chicago




THE HIDDEN CAMERAS
Origin: Orphan
www.thehiddencameras.com
Dist: EMI Music Canada


The Hidden Cameras are set for a mighty return with Origin:Orphan available today on Arts & Crafts. With the utmost flare and charm, Joel Gibb & Co. have created their most spirited sounding record to date. Recorded in Toronto, Ontario and Berlin, Germany, where Gibb calls home most of the year, Origin:Orphan delves into new territory for The Hidden Cameras, including dark synths of the title track and dominant orchestration of "Walk On". The first single is “In The NA.” A free download of the song "Walk On" is available here.

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Artist: The Hidden Cameras
Track: In The NA




SPIRAL BEACH
The Only Really Thing
www.spiralbeach.com
Dist: EMI Music Canada


With the Canadian release of Ball in the fall of 2007 the buzz on the band became deafening. They ruffled feathers when they unexpectedly invited fans in crazy costumes up on stage to join the broadcast of their performance on Canada’s MTV-LIVE... They toured extensively throughout Canada and was invited to tour with both Sloan and the Hidden Cameras in the U.S. as well as opening up for like-minded acts such as the Go! Team and Tokyo Police Club. The band are taking it all to the next level with their new album The Only Really Thing. The album perfectly captures the jubilant frenzy of the band, filling out the kaleidoscopic pop sound they had already developed with intricate arrangements and unconventional instrumentation.

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Artist: Spiral Beach
Track: May Go Round (In A Mania)




ELISAPIE ISAAC
There Will Be Stars
www.myspace.com/elisapieisaac
Dist: Fontana North


Elisapie Isaac was born of an Inuk mother and a Newfoundland father. She was adopted at birth by an Inuit family and was raised in the isolated community Salluit, Nunavik - the Great North. There will be Stars is the new work from the Inuk singer, composer and filmmaker. This, her first solo recording, is the much anticipated follow up to the internationally acclaimed, award winning duo Taima which she co-founded with guitarist / composer Alain Auger in 2001. There will be Stars is not so much an album as a seduction from somewhere distant, somewhere other worldly. Sometimes it is full of joy, sometimes lined with melancholy, at times pop and at times folk.

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Artist: Elisapie Isaac
Track: Turning My Back




RAIN MACHINE
Rain Machine
www.myspace.com/rainmachinemusic
Dist: F.A.B.


Kyp Malone’s much anticipated solo project Rain Machine is released today on Anti-records. The provocative album art, created by Malone himself, is an appropriate indicator of the unique and defiantly personal music within. Rain Machine features ten unflinchingly original and emotional songs mixing elements of modern jazz, blue-grass and blistering guitar driven rock into a refreshing new sound. As singer and guitarist for celebrated band TV on the Radio, Malone proved himself both a captivating and delightfully unpredictable musical force. On Rain Machine, he shows himself a singer and a lyricist of startling talents.

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Artist: Rain Machine
Track: Give Blood




DAVE GUNNING
We're All Leaving
www.davegunning.com
Dist: Fontana North


Since debuting with Lost Tracks in 1997, Dave Gunning has won six Music Nova Scotia Awards and three East Coast Music Awards, including the 2008 Folk Recording, Male Artist of the Year for House For Sale and 2005 Folk Recording for Two-bit World. He also won the Indie International Songwriting Contest in the folk category for the song “Hard Workin’ Hands.” His latest album We’re All Leaving contains 11 songs that include co-writes with acclaimed musicians James Keelaghan, David Francey, Matt Andersen and producer Jamie Robinson.

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Artist: Dave Gunning
Track: Made On A Monday




MONSTERS OF FOLK
Monsters Of Folk
www.monsteroffolk.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada


Monsters Of Folk is a collaboration of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward, and producer Mike Mogis, four of this generation’s most critically acclaimed artists. Each of the band members stands alone in the studio as artists in their own right. Conor Oberst is Bright Eyes, Jim James leads My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward is a critically acclaimed singer songwriter (She & Him). Monsters Of Folk have come together to create a truly unique album.


SEA WOLF
White Water, White Bloom
www.seawolfmusic.com
Dist: Fontana North


Taking its name from novelist Jack London’s 1904 seafaring adventure, Sea Wolf has evolved organically from its hermetic origins in Alex Brown Church’s living room into a muscular, full-bodied musical entity with passion to burn. After adopting the sobriquet, Church burst onto the music scene in two-fisted fashion with the EP, Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low, and the subsequent full-length debut album, Leaves in the River. And now, Church’s singular vision has led to the creation of the eloquent and expansive new album White Water, White Bloom, which not only fulfills the immense promise of the initial musical diptych but conjures up its own cosmology.

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Artist: Sea Wolf
Track: Wicked Blood




DEADMAU5
For Lack Of A Better Name
www.deadmau5.com
Dist: EMI Music Canada


In less than two years this Canadian-based whiz kid has gone from near obscurity to receiving numerous accolades. This Grammy-nominated, Juno award-winning electronic music sensation racked up more than 5,000,000 hits on MySpace and debuted as #11 of the top 100 DJ’s in the world! Now he’s about to unleash For Lack of A Better Name, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 debut Random Album Title. Here DEADMAU5 takes a different turn by incorporating various styles of music into multi-blocks of songs. The album also includes the hit track “Ghosts N Stuff,” featuring Pendulum’s Rob Swire.


ISLANDS
Vapours
www.myspace.com/Islands
Dist: F.A.B.


Nick Diamonds' polymorphous pop band, Islands, is back with their third studio album, Vapours: a collection of fun, highly listenable tunes that effortlessly intertwine Motown grooves, electro-Krautrock anolog synths, and even some slinky horn charts. All this over Nick Diamonds’ undeniable melodies, giving us the one of the best collections of modern pop songs since David Byrne rolled out the big suits. After making a splash with their 2006 debut, Return to the Sea, performed with a cast of characters from Montreal's thriving music scene (including members of Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade), ex-Unicorns Nick Diamonds and Jaime Thompson parted ways for 2007’s Arm’s Way. Longtime fans will be ecstatic to learn that Thompson has returned for Vapours, and the band has regained much of the ragged charm that made Return to the Sea a press and fan favorite

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Artist: Islands
Track: No You Don’t




BRAND NEW
Daisy
www.fightoffyourdemons.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada


Daisy marks the 4th album from Long Island, NY based rock band Brand New. Produced by Brand New and Mike Sapone (Public Enemy, Taking Back Sunday), and mixed by Dave Sardy (Wolfmother, Rage Against the Machine, NIN) Daisy continues the darker, deconstructed feel of their previous critically acclaimed album The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. On the new album Daisy, Jesse Lacey, the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band commented in Kerrang recently: “"It's a pretty exhausting record. It's quite dense and I think some of the decisions we made don't always go in the most obvious direction. We were thinking a lot more about what we'd want to play when we were up onstage rather than actually what you'd want to hear on a record."


BASEMENT JAXX
Scars
www.basementjaxx.co.uk
Dist: Select Distribution


XL Recordings are very pleased to present the brand-new full-length album from Basement Jaxx, Scars (their first new album in over 3 years). With a host of special guests including Yoko Ono, Sam Sparro, Santigold, Kelis and Chipmunk, Scars is as innovative in it's sound as it is in its vision. Their sound still remains as urgent and as impactful as ever - There's no need for Basement Jaxx to try and embrace any kind of retro outlook to their music. From the UK Top 20 smash hit summer anthem of "Raindrops" featuring Felix's twisted vocals, to the string-drenched, grime-esque title track "Scars" and the gorgeous "My Turn", which features Lightspeed Champion on vocals, Basement Jaxx deliver an album that outshines any dance act in the UK.


TUESDAYS DIGITAL SINGLE LEADS

- THE TREWS "Sing Your Heart Out"

- TOKIO HOTEL "Automatic"

- THE BRAVERY "Slow Poison"

- MASSARI "Body Body"

- FEFE DOBSON "Watch Me Move"

- DOWN WITH WEBSTER "Time To Win"

- JULLY BLACK "Running"


THE TUESDAY GUIDE CONGRADULATES THE WINNER OF THE 2009 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE


FUCKED UP
The Chemistry Of Common Life
Dist: Select

Toronto, Ontario’s Fucked Up was named the winner of the fourth annual Polaris Music Prize in a gala ceremony held at the Concert Hall (Monday Sept,21) at the Masonic Temple. The artists takes home $20,000 for The Chemistry of Common Life, the Canadian Album of the Year.

Liisa Ladouceur, who oversees the voting for Polaris, talked about the intensity of the process. “We ask the jury to vote regardless of genre and they truly did,” stated Liisa Ladouceur, Representative of the jury. “Members of the jury believed that the Fucked Up’s Chemistry Of Common Life was not only the best hardcore album of the year, not only the best Canadian album of the year, but was the best album of the year in the world – period.”










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