ECHOES OF… NEW LP, LAST DAYS, OUT TODAY

ECHOES OF… THE ANDREW MORRISON (THE JERRY CANS) LED IQALUIT COLLECTIVE NEW ALBUM, LAST DAYS, OUT VIA AAKULUK MUSIC TODAY

WATCH / SHARE “HOUSE IS HOME VOL. II” FT. TERRY UYARAK  HERE
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Today, Nunavut musician and Aakuluk Music label owner Andrew Morrison, the one-time leader of JUNO Award-nominated Arctic folk-rock group the Jerry Cans, is releasing his beautiful and often mournful piano record, Last Days. The record is comprised of six instrumentals with each of the same works also recorded with Inuktitut-language poetry by rock legend James Ungalaq (Northern Haze) and JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter Terry Uyarak.

"House Is Home” is the final focus track of the album. “It is a return to the starting point of the whole cycle of this experience,” explains Morrison. “The whole album represents a trigger/glimmer of earth-shattering loss in my life, but this release process has been about coming to terms with that loss. I wish for this album to create space for listeners to bring light and warmth to their darkest times."

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MORE ABOUT LAST DAYS
“It is a grief album, but a life album,” says Andrew. “There's lots about home. I think that's something that we struggle with, in this era of our lives, when we lose people, parents, but also lose people that we look up to artistically.

Last Days was largely inspired by Andrew’s late mother, who was comforted by her son’s piano instrumentals in her final months, but also his need to break out of his comfort zone and create a piece of art that can be taken to the great classical concert halls of the world. 

“I wanted to do something that ignores the rest of the commercialized appetites in the music industry and honour non-lyrical music. It’s a world I don’t know too much about, but I think that we’re told too quickly what songs are about, but with the Inuktitut poetry — because most people won’t understand it — the tone of the voice, I hope, conveys that. This is getting back to something that I feel is missing in art, which is our connection to what we’re feeling and expressing.”

LISTEN / SHARE “COLOURS I”  FT. SARA PAGE, KRISTINA KOROPECKI HERE

LISTEN / SHARE “COLOURS II” FT. TERRY UYARAK HERE

During the pandemic, when Andrew’s mother was in care, every morning he played her snippets of the piano songs because he knew she enjoyed them. “I recorded them on my phone just as voice notes,” he says. 

Some of those intros are on the final recording, and some he rerecorded after she passed away.  “It was just time to diarize and remember the last moments of my mother passing away,” Andrew says. 

Self-produced in Inuktitut and Montreal, the instrumentals “House Is Home Vol. I”, “79th Ave Vol. I”, “The News Vol. I, The News 2 Vol. I”, “Colours I”, and “Sooth Your Soul Vol. I”, also feature Sara Page (Barr Brothers) on harp and Kristina Koropecki on cello. 

“The News” poems were written and recited by James Ungalaq. “Two of his band members had passed away this year so he was also in a devastated space,” says Andrew. “He had a bunch of poems that he had written. It’s him finding his place again, similar to me, being from a band that had a certain identity to something very different. I feel like for both of us, it's been mining our souls a little bit.”

“It is a great honour to have both James and Terry contribute poetry to my album; they write absolutely beautiful words,” says Andrew. “We wanted to provide both Inuktitut and English guides to their poems with the hope that more people can understand life in Nunavut.”

LISTEN / SHARE “THE NEWS VOL. I”  FEAT. SARA PAGE, KRISTINA KOROPECKI HERE

LISTEN / SHARE “THE NEWS VOL. II” FT. qiyuapik HERE

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LAST DAYS TRACKLIST
01 Sooth Your Soul Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
02 Sooth Your Soul Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
03 The News, Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
04 The News, Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
05 The News 2 Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
06 The News 2 Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
07 79th Ave Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
08 79th Ave Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
09 Colours I (Instrumental) feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
10 Colours II feat. Terry Uyarak
11 House Is Home Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
12 House Is Home Vol. II feat. Terry Uyarak

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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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MORE ABOUT ALL YOUR WORSHIPS
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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TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 20 | FULL DATES LISTED BELOW
TICKETS ON SALE HERE ON AUGUST 20

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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.

PRE-SAVE SO FAINT DEBUT LP HERE
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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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