NEW MUSIC: Alex Henry Foster – The Hunter (By The Seaside Window)

On May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 By Doubtful SoundsIn Ambient, Experimental, Guitar Rock, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, VideoLeave a comment

Alex Henry Foster recently released the video for his single ‘The Hunter (By The Seaside Window)‘, the centrepiece of his new album Windows In The Sky. The song is an epic 14 minute piece of post-rock, with an ebb and flow of tension, poetry and ascent into grand, sprawling and expansive electric guitar playing that at times reminds us of Lift To Experience. Interwoven with Foster’s (mostly) spoken word are indecipherable recordings of a female voice – in another language, which adds to the mystery and intrigue.

“The Hunter (By the Seaside Window) emerged from a 30-minute jam of a noisy, out-of-breath and tortured kind of dark, spiritual, emotive, and redemptive sonic journey. It reflects on the symbiotic notion of inner struggles feeding the growing illness of the relationship between the different entities we kept on feeding within oneself, as a sort of an out-of-step addiction to pain and resignation, but also to hopelessness and mercy, as much as to salvation and grace. The cycle only ends once we decide to let go, whatever it may mean for anyone’s beliefs… as we are both the hunter and the prey” – Alex Henry Foster

Alex Henry Foster (AHF) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, author, producer, and composer, best known as the frontman of Juno Awards nominee Post-Rock / Noise band Your Favorite Enemies. The impressive and gripping short film for The Hunter was produced and written by Alex Henry Foster’s longtime collaborator, French filmmaker Jessie Nottola.

NEW MUSIC: Alaskan Tapes – Views From Sixteen Stories

On October 29, 2019December 9, 2019 By Doubtful SoundsIn Ambient, Electronica, Experimental, New Music, StreamLeave a comment

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Last month, Canadian composer Alaskan Tapes (Brady Kendall) released his new album Views From Sixteen Stories. Check out the title track below, a warm, dream-like, swelling piece of music that rises and falls with a certain weightlessness. There’s sonic depth to it too. Turn up the volume and the richness of the bass tones resonate wonderfully through the track.

Hit the Bandcamp link to stream and buy the album on vinyl/CD/digital or stream on the other usual platforms.

NEW MUSIC: Holy Void – I Will Never Be Again

On August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 By Doubtful SoundsIn Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, StreamLeave a comment

Rising out of the sonic mist come Holy Void (Canada) with this heavyweight piece of psych rock that lumbers and sways along. It’s heavy without being HEAVY, has melodies that drip from it like sickly sweet toffee and possesses enough rust and peeling paint to make it sound like it was beamed in from another time. Great stuff and an intoxicating introduction that will drag into the rest of their recently release album Naught.

NEW MUSIC: Cross Dog – Scars

On August 6, 2019 By Doubtful SoundsIn Guitar Rock, Metal/Hard Rock, New Music, Punk, StreamLeave a comment

Cross Dog are a self-described heavy, noisy, feminist punk band from Peterborough Ontario, Canada and man they deliver a blistering slab of noise/punk metal on this track from their new album Hollow. There’s the raw, unbridled fury of the first Hole album bleeding into the hardcore of a band like Refused. It’s unrelenting and built on only bass, drums and vocals but the dynamics they build into the track make it fascinating, layered, brutally heavy and visceral. Check it…

NEW MUSIC: Viet Cong – Silhouettes

On January 30, 2015 By Doubtful SoundsIn Album Covers, Electronica, Experimental, Indie Rock, New Release, Post-Punk, VideoLeave a comment

Out of the ashes of the band Women come Canadian quartet Viet Cong. Theirs is a dark and rhythmic post-punk guitar sound. Like a symposium of Interpol, Liars and Bauhaus, fronted by Andrew Eldritch, sweating it out in a dark, claustrophobic basement disco. Their debut self-titled LP is out now via Jagjaguwar. Here’s the clip for the track ‘Silhouettes’. You can watch the video for their first single ‘Continental Shelf’ HERE.