GIZMO SHARE “ANTIQUES ROADSHOW” FROM NEW ALBUM, ADD MORE TOUR DATES

CHARLOTTETOWN ROCKERS GIZMO DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, ALL YOUR WORSHIPS, OUT OCTOBER 2, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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“Gizmo balance '90s slacker rock with mud-caked power-pop, and "Gift Shop"
is a testament to that.” - Stereogum

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"The opening lyric to ‘Antiques Roadshow’ was, of course, inspired by the famous television show that I remember watching as a child on PBS at 1 AM,” explains songwriter Julien Kitson of their new single. “Written in 2022 but brought to life a year later, the rest of Gizmo and I decided to rehash this song and collectively finish it as a group during a band practice before a festival appearance of ours. Upon performing it at this festival, we felt it stick, and it has now become a metaphor anthem for hitting the road for many of our friends."

“Antiques Roadshow” opens Charlottetown slack rockers Gizmo’s upcoming album, All Your Worships, out October 2 via Victory Pool Records. The album comes roaring out of the gate, picking up right where 2023’s livewire Buddy System EP left off without skipping a beat. The new material finds the band mining similar sources but reaching new heights, imbuing their carefully considered, structurally ambitious power-pop songwriting with more unexpected twists and turns. 

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Gizmo are Charlottetown rockers inspired by the guitar-damaged pop of 1990s American slacker bands and their contemporaries on Canada’s east coast. A 120 Minutes band for the Gen Z set, they breathe new life into their vintage influences with a distinctive songwriting style and a frenetic live show.

To record their debut album, All Your Worships, the band decamped to a converted community hall in Great Village, Nova Scotia with co-producers Alex Edkins (METZ, Weird Nightmare) and Loel Campbell (Wintersleep) in tow. They pulled 12-hour days, sleeping at the studio and capping off nights with drunken music listening sessions. The group bonded over their overlapping tastes, able to share a common language when referencing sounds and direction. Edkins and Campbell mixed the record, with Greg Obis (Stuck, Clearance) providing the finishing touches at Chicago Mastering Service.

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The material was hashed out at rehearsals and live shows from 2022-2025, with the band taking a more collaborative approach to composition. This is in stark contrast to Buddy System, largely written solo by frontman Julien Kitson. This time around, each member brought songwriting contributions — bassist Spencer Swaine and guitarist Patrick Stephen take up lead vocals on their tracks “Crystal Palace” and “Faulty Straight Edge Downfall”, respectively. This does not diffuse a clear sense of direction, though. The lyrics take a stream-of-consciousness, observational approach to themes of heartache and coming of age, all topped off by a whip-smart deployment of non-sequiters, inside jokes, and maritime colloquialisms. 

The arrangements further compound this unified vision; crisp acoustics, warped offset riffs, melodic basslines, and the laserpoint precision of drummer Daniel Hartinger merge to create an underlying sonic palette. This cohesion is what makes the record's diversity work — standout tracks like "Antiques Roadshow”, “Celestial”, and album closer “Pantone 312” are disparate on the surface, but all unmistakably Gizmo. All Your Worships is a 10-track mission statement from the rare breed of band that arrives fully-formed, confidently settling into their first LP and suggesting a myriad of possibilities for the future.

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MORE ABOUT GIZMO
Formed in Charlottetown in 2021, their debut four-song EP Buddy System was released in August 2023. Its guitar-driven melodies and catchy hooks quickly earned them a growing audience and won them Rock Recording of the Year at the Music PEI Awards. Following its release, the band signed a publishing deal with CYMBA Music Publishing and continued writing and refining new material in rehearsal spaces and on the road.

Early on, the band toured steadily, building a devoted fanbase through their live performances, sharing stages with acts like Wintersleep, Paper Lions, Cootie Catcher, and Two Hours Traffic, and playing festivals such as Sommo Festival, Project Nowhere, and Nowadays Fest.

In 2025, following a standout performance at Showcase PEI, the band signed to both Victory Pool Records and Noisemaker Management and quickly landed summer 2026 festival slots at Hillside and Paris Drinks Fest.

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TOUR DATES
Sep 12 - Hamilton, ON - Supercrawl
Sep 13 - Toronto, ON - The Horseshoe Tavern w/ Rum Jungle
Sep 16-19 - Hamburg, DE - Reeperbahn Festival
Oct 01 - Brantford, ON - Poserfest 2026
Oct 07 - Fredericton, NB - The Cap w/ Fucked Up & Cootie Catcher
Oct 09 - Moncton, NB - Tide & Boar w/ Fucked Up & Cootie Catcher

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ALL YOUR WORSHIPS TRACKLIST
01 Antiques Roadshow
02 Celestial
03 Gift Shop
04 Kaleidoscope
05 Kissing Our Days Goodbye
06 Crystal Palace
07 Walking The Floor
08 Railway 2
09 Faulty Straight Edge Downfall
10 Pantone 312

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HANNAH GEORGAS & LYN HEINEMANN LAUNCH NEW PROJECT, SO FAINT

HANNAH GEORGAS & LYN HEINEMANN’S NEW PROJECT, SO FAINT, SHARE FIRST SINGLE, “FULLY SLOW”

SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP OUT OCTOBER 16, 2026 VIA BEETLE BOMB RECORDS 

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So Faint is the collaborative project of Lyn Heinemann and Hannah Georgas, born from a chance encounter in a Vancouver recording studio and shaped by a decade-long friendship. After years on separate paths, with Lyn stepping away from bands, but still writing music for herself and Hannah building an acclaimed international music career that has recently seen her join Broken Social Scene for their latest LP Remember The Humans, the two reunited in 2023 to create the music they’d been quietly missing. 

Today, the duo are officially launching the project and sharing their first single "Fully Slow". With Sean Sroka (Ten Kills the Pack) on board as a producer, engineering by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck, Bully, Alvvays) and tracks mixed by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Soccer Mommy, Angel Olsen). 

The track comes from the duo's self-titled debut, which is being announced today. The album will be released on October 16, 2026 on a new label founded by Georgas called Beetle Bomb Records. 

“I’ve been thinking about putting out music on my own label for awhile,” explains Georgia. “I’ve watched the way music gets released change so much since I first started out, and now so much of that process falls on the artist. For me, it felt exciting to build a team I really know and trust and create something that feels personal. At the end of the day, I just want to put this music out into the world. I’ve worked really hard on it with Lyn, and I’m excited for people to hear it.” 

"Fully Slow" explores the quiet ache of wanting someone who will never want you back—while still building entire fantasies around the possibility. The song is about “wanting someone who you know deep down will never want you back, but still fantasizing that they do,” says Heineman. “I’ve always been very prone to pointless intense crushes that remain completely internalized. I can construct a full storyline about what might happen and never do a single thing about it.” 

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 MORE ABOUT SO FAINT
So Faint’s self-titled debut lands with the kind of quiet confidence that makes its charms feel inevitable. The melodies are sticky in an unflashy, hard-to-engineer way, unfurling gently before looping back in your mind hours later. There’s a coziness to these songs, but it’s paired with a sense of discovery: crunchy guitar hooks and bright melodic turns slip into subtly shifting time signatures, nudging the arrangements just far enough off-center to keep things alive. It’s music that clearly understands pop structure, but treats it less like a blueprint and more like a suggestion. The record’s real momentum comes from the push and pull between its two songwriters, Hannah Georgas and Lyn Heinemann. Their sensibilities orbit the same melodic gravity while arriving from different trajectories, and the tension between those approaches gives the album its shape. You can hear the seriousness with which both approach songwriting, not in any heavy-handed way, but in the careful balance of instinct and restraint that lets these songs feel both effortless and meticulously built.

Lyrically, the album is unflinching but never heavy-handed. Heinemann’s reckoning with the sudden death of a best friend and the collapse of a long-term relationship threads through songs about dissolution, isolation, and the strange administrative aftermath of grief. Georgas counters and compliments those themes with hard-won reflections on partnership, on inching forward out of depression and doubt. The writing is wry, self-aware, attentive to the quiet absurdities of adult expectation.

What makes So Faint addictive isn’t just its craft, it’s the tension humming underneath. The songs carry dark subject matter with disarming lightness, and an understanding that adulthood rarely offers clean narrative arcs. Instead, it gives us overlapping timelines of loss and possibility. The record sits squarely in that overlap and distills it into sharp, deceptively buoyant pop songs.

There's a rare perspective here. One half stayed in the ever-changing music industry, while the other left it to pursue a career in healthcare. Years later, they met back in the middle, sifted through the wreckage, and still found a common thread. That shared history and what they have to say about it is uniquely theirs.

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TOUR DATES
Oct 20 - Guelph, ON - Sonic Hall
Oct 21 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
Oct 22 - Toronto, ON - Lula Lounge
Oct 23 - Kingston, ON - Broom Factory
Oct 24 - Ottawa, ON - Rainbow Bistro
Nov 06 - Vancouver, BC - The Fox Cabaret

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SO FAINT TRACKLIST
01 Assistant Theme
02 Fully Slow
03 Begin Again
04 Chain Chain Chain
05 Devotion Is A Mess
06 Dreamlike
07 Economist
08 Favourite
09 Temporary Mirror
10 Say The End

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GHOSTKEEPER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, BALLOON MOON, SHARES TITLE TRACK

GHOSTKEEPER TO RELEASE BALLOON MOON, OCTOBER 27, 2026 VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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“a re-conjuring of joy that mingles with wounds past and present, thrusting them to the forefront of a musical partnership that spans decades, land, time and space. … amongst the tapestry woven by Cîpayak Joy's multilayered extension of contemporary electronica, Ghostkeeper's past, present and future dance hand in hand.” Exclaim!

“The pop experimentalists return to their roots while pushing their creativity forward on new album, Cîpayak Joy.” RANGE Magazine

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Balloon Moon is the latest offering from celebrated Métis pop experimentalists Ghostkeeper, their seventh album since emerging onto the scene nearly 20 years ago. The band is based in the Mohkinstsis/Calgary area, which is home to the “confluence” where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet. This historic site provided inspiration and a thematic guiding light for the album, and reflections on their place in the world can be found sprinkled throughout these compelling new songs. Their last album, the critically-acclaimed Cîpayak Joy, was centred around the core duo of founding members Shane Ghostkeeper and Sarah Houle, who built the album from scratch at their home studio, incorporating a degree of experimentation not yet heard on Ghostkeeper albums to date. 

Balloon Moon gets the rest of the band – drummer Eric Hamelin and bassist Ryan Bourne (Hair Control, Chad Van Gaalen) – back in the room together, and the results, mostly cooked up collectively in studio, are stellar. The album's first single “Mohkinstsis” was recently featured by the CBC as one of “4 songs you need to hear to celebrate Indigenous History Month”, and its fond reminiscences of the core duo's early days together set the tone perfectly for an album that explores both the world around them as well as more abstract, introspective musings. 

Today, they share the title track from the album. “The ‘Balloon Moon’ is a sacred talisman that rises to give me light, hope and inspiration when I need it most,” explains Shane. “It is the medicinal and protective manifestation of the love between Sarah and I … and it shines even in this grotesque and heartbreaking climate of perpetual colonial/ capitalist desecration of humanity and of our Mother Earth. This song is a prayer for all those who are brutally affected. Hiy Hiy.”

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“Scars On Scars” kicks off the album in classic Ghostkeeper fashion, with an intricate, winding weave of guitar and bass lines, at once psychedelically disorienting and catchy as hell. The song quickly settles into a distinctly '70s feel with Hamelin's mercurial drumming moving between a tumbling pattern and a propulsive, backbeat-driven groove. But that description really only gets you part of the way there; once the beat settles in and Ghostkeeper's traces of melody begin to coalesce, there is truly no one else that sounds like this.

“I Want Love” is a feast for fans of the electric guitar, especially of the late '70s variety. The opening lick slyly recalls early tones by The Cars, before shifting into a spiky lick that could have been lifted from Robert Quine's masterful playing on Richard Hell's punk classic Blank Generation. “Tomb Rose” and “Love and Free Will” (which also features additional guitar from session ace JJ Mayo) also feature this prickly, ear-grabbing playing style, and also hearkens back to some of the earlier Ghostkeeper albums, albeit with the benefit of a decade of constant evolution and boundary-pushing. 

The album takes a turn into the most angular corner of the album on “Tomb Rose”, a careening series of tightly synced band figures, funk guitars, and some impressive moves on the bass courtesy of Ryan Bourne. The vocals wander across this complex tapestry of band action, alternating between smears of analog delay trails and tightly arranged layers of stacked vocal harmonies. 

Balloon Moon features two mini-songs tucked into its tracklist; “Every Wild Flower” is a brief dip into a doo-wop adjacent reverie, lovingly tripped out with tape vari-speed manipulations, clacking castanet percussion, and layers of vocals moving around the stereo field. “Across A Vast Vast Distance” provides another moment of respite with an undulating, ambient soundscape providing an immersive background for a brief passage of ominous spoken word.

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“Blot Out The Sun” begins in a more straightforward manner, recalling Shane's solo work under his own full name, before morphing into one of the trippier, more immersive listening experiences on Balloon Moon. This is not a shocking avenue for the band to explore; all members share a penchant for experimental approaches to music and sound, drawing inspiration from musique concrète (the practice of using sound itself as musical material), free jazz, and film score sound design. “We wanted to figure out how we can make things more unpredictable while still remaining tasty,” Ghostkeeper says. Jay Crocker (aka JOYFULTALK), a longtime collaborator and former band member, mixed the album and played a powerful role in this regard. “Working with Jay always turns out to be something you never expected, and sometimes I'm even nervous before putting on a mix for the first time,” Shane laughs, “but it always turns out to be amazing and sounds like nothing else.”

The album was produced by Josh Rob Gwilliam, head honcho at OCL Studios. The addition of Gwillam in the producer's chair was a sea change moment for Ghostkeeper, having previously worked with only a small cast of familiar players in this role. At first, there was a fleeting moment of apprehension at bringing someone new into the fold, but that feeling quickly evaporated, thanks in part to what Shane calls Gwillam's “old school studio bedside manner”. Balloon Moon carries the distinction of being the least pre-planned of any of the band's albums, and while this was an intentional choice to keep things fresh and intuitive, “Josh sensed my mild anxiety at not having every last detail ready to go,” Shane says with a laugh. But this allowed the producer to contribute in meaningful and unexpected ways; as the band created parts and arrangements in the moment, “he knew when to step in with a suggestion, or simply let us grind it out on the spot,” Shane remembers. “Every Wild Flower” and “Tomb Rose” are great examples of this synergistic pairing; “he helped us build layers and layers of vocals built right on the spot. Nothing was planned, but the vibe and chemistry in the room was just so good, it felt effortless.”

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Album closer “To The Earth” is another deep dive into the world of abstract sound and free-flowing, expressive rhythm that has clearly grabbed Ghostkeeper's attention on Balloon Moon. Featuring the sole vocal from founding member Sarah Houle, sitting atop a wordless melody from Shane, the song has an incantory quality, with Hamelin's constantly permutating rhythms swirling around layers of keyboard drones. “I pushed Hamelin to be as busy as he wanted to be on of these tracks,” Shane says, and as a drummer who can pull off everything from a straightforward backbeat to beautifully dense free-jazz maelstroms of sound, we are treated here to his finest moments on a Ghostkeeper album to date.

Balloon Moon is both a return to form, of sorts, and also a bold new step forward. The album bristles with the immediacy that one can achieve through collective, real-time collaboration in a comfortable and open studio environment, and also benefits from the presence of a real, working, organic unit of players guided by a steady hand in the production chair. This is a vital and compelling band working at the top of their powers, and it will be a joy to see these songs come to life onstage in the coming months. 

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BALLOON MOON TRACKLIST
01 Scars on Scars 
02 Mohkinstsis 
03 I Want Love 
04 Every Wild Flower 
05 Tomb Rose 
06 Blot Out The Sun 
07 My Child 
08 Love And Free Will 
09 Across A Vast Vast Distance 
10 Balloon Moon 
11 To The Earth 

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