Excellent Pop Inspired by Beach Boys and Beatles

Love the 1960s pop of the Beach Boys and Beatles? Then we highly recommend the brand new album CLOUDHEAD by Jamie Ward. This is a new favorite at Rancho Oddio.

     

This follow-up to 2015’s “I Am The Sun” shows Jamie Ward’s ability to push even further into a mixed bag of 1960’s inspired pop gems. Written, recorded, performed and produced by the artist, it is a more complex album in it’s songwriting and arrangements, tipping it’s hat to Brian Wilson’s modular recording style employed on “Pet Sounds” and the orchestral arrangements by George Martin on The Beatles middle period records, plus Phil Spectors layered “Wall Of Sound” technique. Elements of other 1960’s music makers including The Byrds, The Left Banke, The Rolling Stones, Harry Nillson and others are also honoured in this collection of original songs.   

“CloudHead” was written as a concept album, a commentary on the disillusionment of a consumer driven existence based on the artists personal experience of transition between western society’s force-fed values and expectations to self-realization. The album represents a complete day in the life, starting with “Get Up!” and ending with “End Of The Day/Now That’s It’s Over”. It is a tribute to the dreamers, the “CloudHeads” of the world.
 

We are also wildly in love with Jamie Ward's aforementioned I AM THE SUN EP. You can find both albums on Bandcamp and on the FMA.




PS: If the voice sounds vaguely familiar, you may recognize Jamie Ward as the voice of that legendary children's artist, Uncle Neptune, a long-time favorite at both Kazoomzoom and Oddio Overplay.

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MUSIC COPYRIGHTS:All Rights Reserved; FMA-Limited License
IMAGE: album cover
NATIONALITY: Americas: Canada: Ontario
CLASSIFICATIONS:Psychedelia; Pop; Sunshine Pop
FILED UNDER: Digital: Popular Music: Psych Pop, Bubblegum

The Beautiful Music Sampler

The Beautiful Music label in Ontario, Canada, purveyors of fine pop,"collectors and distributors of fine music," offers you a taste of their pop goodness with their label sampler 15 Beauty Tips For Modern Music Lovers.

"Anyone who knows us already knows that we love giving things away free and so here we are doing it again. Great music deserves to be heard and we think that we have released some of the greatest music you will ever hear, on our tiny imaginary label. If we had our way we would just give away all our albums for free but that doesn’t help recoup some of the costs for the bands so we only ask that if you enjoy some of these tunes, then please support some of these artists, whether it is attending their shows or purchasing a few more of their songs or just telling all your friends about them or about this free sampler."

This bubblegum may get stuck in your head! Hear for yourself!

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1980s Electro-Pop Reborn in Montréal

Two free releases of Montréal electro-pop featuring Mathias Mental

Mathias Mental The Stateroom Scene Official Site | Facebook | YouTube license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) (electro-disco electronic pop electro folk rock indie indie pop minimalist)
TangoCharlie  Worthwhile Dilemmas Facebook | Bandcamp license: traditional copyrights (electronic electro indie rock tango)

She Is Rochelle Jordan

British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware, known recently for her hit "Wildest Moments", loves the voice of rhythm and blues singer Rochelle Jordan so much she selected the Toronto native to tour with her this month. The ladies are still touring and will be continent hopping for some time yet.

Rochelle Jordan offers her 12-track album, Pressure, for free download. This is a great sampler of her beautiful voice. (Download all in zip at bottom left here.)

Rochelle's voice is all you need to hear.

Fineshrine Earworm

The track "Fineshrine" by Purity Ring has been a real earworm this summer as the Canadian group tours the USA. Seems like we hear it everywhere, and right now it is the top of the Canadian R3-30 charts.

If you have yet to hear it, "Fineshrine" is an airy, dream pop, electronic tune with delicate female vocals. The 4AD label still offers the song for free mp3 download to add to your season's soundtrack. For more about Purity Ring and their new album, Shrines, click the pic.

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mp3: Purity Ring - Fineshrine via 4AD

Canada's Finest Metal

Special Edition: Full Metal Podcast
From Lisa Christiansen at CBC Radio 3:

We play a lot of great music here at Radio 3, and for one radio station we do play an unbelievable number of different genres, from hip hop to folk; electronica to pop and hard rock. But there is one genre that is sadly under-represented - metal.

But not anymore. Today marks the first Full Metal Podcast for CBC Radio 3. And I couldn't be more um, filled with unholy joy.

For the past few months a crack team of producers and one eager host, have listened to hours of metal tunes from our collection here at New Music Canada. We then sought out the opinions of a few serious metal heads and created this podcast.

You'll hear music from Protest the Hero, Cursed, Bison, and Cryptopsy. I check in with a touring Cam Pipes of 3 Inches of Blood and ponder the why behind Montreal's metal capital of North America status with legendary drummer Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy. [I had the pleasure of meeting Cam last year. Seems like a great guy. -katya]

It's a cross-country journey through some of the hardest and loudest music being made in Canada today, and it's all in one easy to enjoy package. So kick back and get ready and watch where you bang that head. Neck injuries are not covered by Radio 3.

Download the podcast in one of the 3 formats:M4A | MP3 | OGG

Featured Bands: Protest the Hero, Penetrator, Forty Birds, Gross Misconduct, Cursed, Divinity, Cryptopsy, Rammer, Bison, Soulscar, Arapacis, Sequoia, 3 Inches of Blood and Derelict.

You can find more info here.



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