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Love Songs For Robots
''Love Songs for Robots'' is the fifth studio album released by Canadian group Patrick Watson. It was released on May 12, 2015. '' Exclaim!'', February 24, 2015. The album was a long-listed nominee for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize."Polaris Music Prize Announces 2015 Long List" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Watson (musician)
Patrick Watson (born October 8, 1979) is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec. It also refers to the eponymous band formed by Watson, whose blend of cabaret pop and classical music influences with indie rock has been compared to Rufus Wainwright, Andrew Bird, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Pink Floyd for its experimental musicianship. Patrick Watson's album ''Close to Paradise'' was awarded the Polaris Music Prize in 2007. Early history Born in Lancaster, California to Canadian parents and raised in Hudson, Quebec, Watson attended Lower Canada College. While living in Hudson, Watson worked as a pool and hot tub water analyst at Piscines et Spas Hudson. He began his musical career in high school as a member of a ska band called Gangster Politics. Patrick Watson studied music at Vanier College in Montreal. Solo career Watson co-wrote and performed on several songs on The Cinematic Orchestra's 2007 album ''Ma Fleur'' including the opening track "To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret City Records
Secret City Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded in 2006 by Andrew Rose and Justin West, originally as sublabel of Justin Time Records. It became fully independent in late 2008. Artists who have released material on Secret City include Patrick Watson, Miracle Fortress, Plants and Animals, Diamond Rings, Human Highway, Basia Bulat, Thus Owls, Daniel Isaiah, and The Barr Brothers. The label has also been the Canadian distributor for albums by The Go! Team. A number of albums released on the label have gone on to be shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.Sarah Liss"Independent’s day: Montreal’s Secret City Records is Canada’s hottest new label" cbc.ca, April 2, 2008. Patrick Watson's ''Close to Paradise'' was the prize winner in 2007, a year in which Miracle Fortress' '' Five Roses'' was also shortlisted, and in 2008 both Basia Bulat's '' Heart of My Own'' and Plants and Animals' ''Parc Avenue'' we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press. History Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP '' Rocking the Forest'', licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the US were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures In Your Own Backyard
''Adventures in Your Own Backyard'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Patrick Watson, released in April 2012. It is the band's follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2009 release ''Wooden Arms'', but by comparison is a musically simpler and more emotional album. Recording and production ''Adventures in Your Own Backyard'' was recorded almost entirely in a home studio next door to Watson's apartment in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec. The location was chosen for several reasons: the band wanted to return to the city after several years of touring, they felt that they would produce their best work by avoiding the time constraint and stress of recording in a professional studio, and it also allowed Watson to care for his two young children in between recording sessions. According to drummer Robbie Kuster, the relaxed and informal environment "really let he banddig in to the writing and the arranging" of the album. However, the album's title refers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wave (Patrick Watson Album)
Wave is the sixth studio album released by Canadian group Patrick Watson (musician), Patrick Watson. It was released on October 19, 2019. Critical reception ''Wave'' received generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a standard score, normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an weighted arithmetic mean, average score of 73 based on 7 reviews. In the ''Sputnikmusic'' review, staff member SowingSeason praised the album as "texturally and aesthetically jaw-dropping, perfected by an artist who clearly took his time accentuating the beauty and sadness of every moment." The album was a Juno Award nominee for Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.Melody Lau"Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations" CBC Music, January 28, 2019. Track listing Charts References 2019 albums Patrick Watson (musician) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Polaris Music Prize
The 2015 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2015 at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario."Polaris Music Prize Announces 2015 Long List" '' Exclaim!'', June 16, 2015. The event was hosted by children's entertainer . In May 2015, announced an additional contribution to the Polaris fund which saw the prize for the winning album increased to $50,000, as well as $3,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2015. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, or disbanded, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2015 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2015 albums Albums 2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
