AIKO TOMI 富愛子 ANNOUNCES NEW LP, EVERYTHING SPARKS JOY, SHARES FIRST SINGLE

AIKO TOMI’S (富愛子) NEW ALBUM, EVERYTHING SPARKS JOY, FINDS BEAUTY IN CHAOS AND CONFIDENCE IN IMPERFECTION - OUT JUNE 20, 2025

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“Instantly inspire[s] anyone to defiantly flaunt their individuality” - The Guardian

“Prowling synths and percussion that taps like honed talons.” - Complex

"Tomi's lyrical deftness doesn’t just reveal the blinding glare of materialistic boast-posting; Her savvy ear for production and equally catchy voice will also make you — to paraphrase a much different elder pop artist — dim your screen and dance in the dark." - Exclaim!

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Toronto alt-pop disruptor AIKO TOMI (富愛子) announces her newest album, Everything Sparks Joy, a nine-track odyssey that feels like a sugar rush at the end of the world, out June 20, 2025. Effortlessly blending hyperpop energy with sharp introspection, Tomi delivers tracks that are playful, chaotic, and deeply intelligent—a rare balance that’s as fun as it is thought-provoking.

From the slick, irreverent “BOUNCE” to the introspective yet euphoric title track, Everything Sparks Joy invites listeners to lean into life’s contradictions: finding joy in chaos, balancing indulgence with simplicity, and owning both confidence and vulnerability. Beneath the glittering hooks and wild production is a carefully curated statement on individuality, rebellion, and the beauty of being real.

Today, Tomi shares the album’s uplifting and wholesome lead single, “blueberries”, a song about finding joy in simplicity. Playful yet deeply introspective, “it’s a meditation on embracing the richness and meaning in life’s small, unpretentious moments, rather than chasing external validation,” says Tomi. “The song exudes confidence, celebrating the power of being true to yourself while staying grounded in a world obsessed with appearances.”

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MORE ABOUT EVERYTHING SPARKS JOY
"This album concept was born when I was called out for being full of shit for expressing my minimalist aspirations. My response was, ‘I’m not a hoarder, I’m just an indecisive minimalist—EVERYTHING sparks joy,’" says Tomi. "It’s for anyone who feels like they exist between worlds – living fully in their dualities."

With a bold sonic palette by producer Andrew Rasmussen and striking visuals, Everything Sparks Joy is equal parts party and think piece, proving that bangers can have both brains and booty. Lead single “blueberries” is now streaming everywhere and the album arrives in full on June 20.

Alt-pop artist AIKO TOMI 富愛子 has been called everything from “Asian Brat” to “Asian Peaches”—but behind the playful labels is a sharp, genre-blurring songwriter with a taste for the unexpected. The Taiwan-born, Toronto-based artist of Japanese-Chinese heritage weaves the duality of her experiences into a sound and aesthetic all her own: distorted hyperpop beats, hypnotic synths, and thoughtful yet addictive hooks that explore the contradictions we carry—with what Exclaim! calls “lyrical deftness.” Her high-energy live shows—described as “riveting—and fun” (NEXT Magazine)—pair bold physicality with moments of brutal honesty. Fresh from performances across Asia and Europe, AIKO TOMI has been spotlighted in The Guardian, Complex, and CBC Radio. She also curates The Cult of AIKO TOMI, a self-produced live music series spotlighting diverse artists through Asian-inspired themes.

EVERYTHING SPARKS JOY TRACKLIST
01 Everything Sparks Joy
02 BOUNCE
03 gliiitch
04 blueberries
05 Violently Kawaii
06 296
07 delulu demon
08 agenttt of chaos
09 Some Lights Need To Be Dimmed

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PLEASURE CRAFT SHARE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “DON’T I LOOK CALM”

PLEASURE CRAFT RELEASE NEW SINGLE, “DON’T I LOOK CALM”, VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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Pleasure Craft straddles the boundaries of swaggering industrial to throbbing post-punk to groove-heavy indie rock. Volatile and razor-sharp, ominous and grimey, beneath thick, industrial grooves, buzzsaw guitar riffing, tectonic synth palettes, and gorgeous vocals - this is where the band lives: on the knife’s edge of calm and chaos, the familiar and the frightening. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer Sam Lewis, the project is rounded out by a rotating cast of all-star musicians that includes Mingjia Chen, Ben Green, and River Radcliffe.

Today, they share the new single, “Don’t I Look Calm”, building on the sonic and thematic worlds that Lewis has been crafting over five years and two prior EPs under the Pleasure Craft moniker. “The song feels like something that happened rather than something I made,” says Lewis. “I opened the session every now and then for a few years, adding things and making little changes until eventually it became a song. It sounds nothing like the first few versions and I love how that process turned it into this disjointed, rambling mess. I think George Clanton’s last album shows its influence in the bright and sparkly video game fantasy synths.

“The lyrics and tone of the song were born out of a state of doomerism and ambivalence towards the future. To me they give off a manic numbness that I’ve been feeling from a lot of people recently, over- exposed and just blasting onward anyway.”

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Pleasure Craft is grounded not by genre but by the unrelenting energy that Lewis provides on recording and in concert. His lyrics revolve heavily around the journey of healing the damage caused by the dominant cultural constructs of manhood and masculinity. The group has been heralded as a must-see band through DIY touring, receiving praise from CBC, Exclaim!, NOW Toronto and Anthony Fantano’s multi-million subscriber YouTube channel “The Needle Drop.”

Following the release of 2022’s Walls, Mirrors, Windows, Pleasure Craft is immersed deep in the writing process for their next recording project.

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BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S ICONIC LP REWORKED, SHARES COVER BY MAGGIE ROGERS & SYLVAN ESSO

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S ICONIC BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM GETS REWORKED WITH ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People 

ALBUM OF COVER SONGS BY MAGGIE ROGERS & SYLVAN ESSO, THE WEATHER STATION, HOVVDY, TORO Y MOI, SERPENTWITHFEET, AND MORE

OUT JUNE 6, 2025 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS - PREORDER NOW

LISTEN TO MAGGIE ROGERS & SYLVAN ESSO’S COVER OF “ANTHEMS FOR A SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD GIRL” HERE

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Over the last two plus decades, Broken Social Scene’s breakthrough album You Forgot It In People has cemented its place amongst indie rock's greatest – through its collective energy pushing the genre far beyond its noisy ’90s slacker roots to a more tirelessly collaborative, sonically expansive, emotionally expressive vision. This vision is set to see new heights with the release of ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People – a front-to-back tribute to the hallowed Toronto band's 2003 masterpiece.  

The album, out June 6 via Arts & Crafts, reimagines You Forgot It In People with cover versions from today’s indie music icons, including Toro y Moi, The Weather Station, serpentwithfeet, and more (full tracklisting below). With today’s album announcement, Maggie Rogers and Sylvan Esso’s stirring rendition of the iconic “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl” is available now. The song takes on a newfangled pop energy with Sylvan Esso's exultant production laying the groundwork for Maggie’s soaring “Dream about me” chorus. 

“‘Anthems’ is one of those songs that fundamentally changed my life,” Rogers reflected on the Broken Social Scene song’s impact. “There’s something about the lyrical repetition that functions as a sort of mantra within the song and it made me understand at a very early point in my creative life that music could be a form of meditation. Broken Social Scene has long been one of my all-time favorite bands and covering it with my dear friends Nick and Amelia from Sylvan Esso was an absolute joy beam dream.” 

Sylvan Esso added, “It was a joy to cover this beautiful song with Maggie- we all grew up loving this record- to be asked to cover ’Anthems…’ together was an honor and led to a truly lovely time.”

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The album is available for pre-order now on limited edition vinyl via Arts & Crafts. Bundle option includes a You Forgot It In People graphic novel by Z2, and You Forgot It In People songbook. A newly released documentary film, It’s All Gonna Break, revisiting Broken Social Scene’s early days, is screening throughout the USA in May and June– see cities and dates here.

ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People Tracklisting: 
1. Capture The Flag - Ouri 
2. KC Accidental - Hovvdy
3. Stars And Sons - Toro y Moi
4. Almost Crimes - Miya Folick & Hand Habits
5. Looks Just Like The Sun - The Weather Station
6. Pacific Theme - Mdou Moctar, Mikey Coltun
7. Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl - Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso
8. Cause = Time - Middle Kids
9. Late Nineties Bedroom Rock For The Missionaries - Benny Sings
10. Shampoo Suicide - SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
11. Lover's Spit - serpentwithfeet
12. Ainda Sou Seu Moleque - Sessa
13. Pitter Patter Goes My Heart - Babygirl

PRAISE FOR BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE

“a powerful and affecting album… they've made just exactly the kind of pop record that stands the test of time” - Pitchfork 

“BSS set the mold for some incalculable hybrid of post-rock-meets-stadium-rock-meets-folk-pop” - Stereogum 

“You Forgot It in People was a critical smash, paving the way for the great musical invasion from the north that’s still going strong today” - The New Yorker

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ABOUT MAGGIE ROGERS:
Originally from Maryland, multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer/ songwriter/ performer Maggie Rogers released her breakthrough EP Now That The Light Is Fading in 2017.  Widely hailed as an artist to watch, Rogers shared her critically acclaimed Capitol Records debut album Heard It In A Past Life in 2019 and immediately found tremendous success: entering Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart at No. 1 and debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The album earned raves from the likes of NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, TIME Magazine, Vogue, and many more. Heard It In A Past Life also landed Rogers a Best New Artist nomination at the 62nd GRAMMY® Awards.  The album, which contains the Platinum hits “Light On” and “Alaska,” has amassed over 1 billion streams globally and is certified Gold in the U.S. In 2022, Rogers released her follow up album, Surrender to widespread acclaim and embarked on two sold-out headline tours across Europe and North America.  Rogers’ new album, Don’t Forget Me is out now.  Pitchfork said, “the singer-songwriter’s third album is her strongest yet, the sound of a wise, clear-eyed, melodious prodigy coming into her own voice,” while SPIN praised her “transcendent songwriting.” The New Yorker deemed Rogers’ Don’t Forget Me as “the loosest and most elemental music she’s made…burly, coltish, tender, fun,” and Rolling Stone named Don’t Forget Me as one of their “100 Best Albums of 2024.” Rogers recently wrapped “The Don’t Forget Me Tour, Part II” —her first-ever arena outing — which included two sold out shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and the Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA. Her television performances include “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Austin City Limits,” “Today” and “CBS Sunday Morning.”

ABOUT SYLVAN ESSO:
Sylvan Esso is a band comprised of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, based in Durham, North Carolina. During the last decade plus of their career, Sylvan Esso earned multiple GRAMMY nominations, sold out legendary venues, launched an independent record label and cultivated a vast, ever-growing community of collaborators, all while forming their “own niche of electro-pop,” says The New York Times. From their respective pasts in bands like Mountain Man and Megafaun, to the serendipitous formation of Sylvan Esso, musicians Meath and Sanborn are two puzzle pieces that fit together with indescribable ease. A shot-in-the-dark of musical chemistry gone right; since the 2014 release of their self-titled debut the pair has delivered “countless different ways of grabbing and inviting attention,” as NPR Music said upon its release. They are also the co-founders of both the artist-forward independent Psychic Hotline, as well as Betty’s, a recording studio based in Chapel Hill.