The Catenary Wires Join Brian Bilston for Sounds Made By Humans
We’ve long supported The Catenary Wires, as forever fans of anything Rob and Amelia do. This go round, they’ve joined up with acclaimed poet, Brian Bilston, for an exciting album billed as Sounds Made by Humans; it’s a bit of pop, a bit of poetry and the trails that are sprinkled in-between. The song opens with a sound bite, from Brian, but quickly erupts into a rolling twirl of thundering percussion and swirling vocal notes; it spins over and over, catching you like the undertow of the ocean, dragging you into the pop spectacle. Will all the tracks be like this? We’re not quite sure, as the LP aspires to mix the pop and the poet, but hopefully we’ll get to hear more from the folks at Skep Wax. Sounds Made By Humans is out on May 9th.
After a long absence from recording, Canadian lot Pike are back with a couple of new songs you should get into while you can. I like the straddling pop styles of the tune below; it kind of seems like it’s playing a musical hopscotch, bopping from side to side in the speakers. Erik Hamilton and Katie Laine trade vocal spars, often overlapping one another to build this textured melody that gets cut into pieces as the song takes on a more angular approach in the track’s latter half. If you’re looking for a solid vibe of cool, then you can’t get much better than pressing play on the new single below.
Through the years we’ve happily covered the work of Phil Sutton and 
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Perhaps it’s because we spent so much of our young adulthood listening to TV on the Radio singles, but any time I hear a song featuring 
Pretty solid wee of new music last week, and we got to as much as our time allowed. We even managed to start getting some of our SXSW coverage together, as the festival is somehow just over the horizon; RayRay got an interview up with Population II you should check out. We even got back on some album stream coverage, making sure to have the homies in Constant Follower and Daily Worker up there. We continue as the one-site hype machine for Sharp Pins Radio DDR reissue, but there some of my favorite acts also returned with their own new jams to grab us, like Dumb Things and Jetstream Pony. I even jumped on the Sports Team train with their latest single. Get into it below.
It’s an interesting Friday of album releases, with some stark contrasts over here at ATH. We’ve got some heavy vibes from the new Men record, right along some contemplative pop from Andy Bell, a bit of pastoral folk from Constant Follower…then some faves like Austin’s Daily Worker mixed up in the middle. Think you’ll find some joy by clicking play on any number of the great records hanging down below.
When news first came our way of a new 
As the year picks up in releases, we’d like to turn your attention towards Vancouver’s