The Golden Filter – “Hide Me” The band’s new single, out 4/19 from Brille. The full-length Voluspa is out the following week.

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Flying Lotus – “Quakes” Non-album track released to promote Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus’ new full-length, due out 5/4 from Warp.

Wilkosz + WayUnder normal circumstances, it’d be logical to consider the record that followed a band’s breakthrough album through the lens of how those successes might have affected their creative process and output. You can’t quite do that in the case of Woodpigeon’s newest record Die Stadt Muzikanten, however, because even though its predecessor Treasury Library Canada was the album that brought the Calgary outfit national recognition via the Polaris Prize long list, Muzikanten was already completed and in the can before the Treasury roller coaster ride began.

That makes the growth in sound and style from one record to the next that much more natural. The basic Woodpigeon recipe hasn’t changed much – Mark Hamilton’s compositions continue to be exemplary folk-pop rendered with delicacy in a widescreen scale, but this time the songs are delivered with more confidence and verve than before and are simultaneously more musically rangy and focused...

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MP3: Woodpigeon – “Empty-Hall Sing-Along”
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Beatroute and Spill have features on Woodhands.

The Wooden Sky are profiled by Beatroute and The Manitoban.

Southern Souls has posted a video session with Forest City Lovers, of which one of the songs is “If I Were A Tree” and thus continues the “wood” meme running through the first bit of this post. Hey, I make my own fun.

Beatroute and The Winnipeg Free Press talk to The Rural Alberta Advantage.

Chart talks to Zeus, whose Say Us arrives February 23.

Vue, Alive Sydney and The Gateway have feature pieces on Dan Mangan.

Ottawa X-Press and Aux interview Basia Bulat.

The Montreal Gazette, The Globe & Mail and PopMatters have interviews with Owen Pallett.

Joel Plaskett has also just announced details of a Thrush Hermit Complete Recordings box set coming out in time to coincide with the band's reunion tour and consisting of all of the band’s albums and EP as well as a wealth of rare and unreelased material and a DVD. Seven discs in all, and suitable for kids of all ages.

Sloan announced via Twitter that they will be releasing a digital compilation of all their official b-sides this week, aptly entitled B-Sides Win.

The Sadies give Exclaim a guided tour of their equipment.

No Age on Daytrotter

St. Vincent
Doublenaut, 2010

Stream Shearwater’s Golden Archipelago In Its Entirety at NPR