Colored Sands by Gorguts

2013 album from the Canadian Technical Death Metal band. Few extreme bands have the pedigree of Gorguts. From their early days as part of Death Metal’s first wave through their transformation into one of the most progressive and influential bands in Extreme Metal, Gorguts has been impervious to trends, and a vehicle to expand and redefine the language of Metal. After a hiatus following 2001’s From Wisdom to Hate, Gorguts reformed in 2008. The band returned to the live circuit for the first time in over 10 years as main support for the legendary Death To All tour in 2012, and followed it up with a handful of European festival dates, including MetalCamp, Brutal Assault Festival, Rock Im Betwonwerk, Metal Mean Festival, and more.

55 Historical Recordings of Traditional Music by Inuit

Originally released by Sub Rosa in 1999. A pivotal album in their career, this marked the first time the duo completely stepped away from the more abstract sound pieces of earlier albums and engaged with the more symphonic and compositional approach that has become the forte of their more recent recordings.

Terraform by Sam Roberts Band

TerraForm is the sixth full-length album release since 2015’s Counting The Days EP and 2014’s album Lo-Fantasy. Roberts believes the key to the band’s longevity is their steadfast enthusiasm to stick to their artistic guns and consistently work to make a better album each time. Roberts emphasizes, “I think the challenge for our band is to still deliver the music with a sense of spontaneity, a sense of urgency and I think that when we go into a new record, we sort of loosen the grips of other people’s expectations and our own expectations.”

Wonderland by Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan returns with what will surely be one of the year’s top Christmas albums, Wonderland. Sarah has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and has won 9 Juno awards as well as 3 Grammy awards (with 13 nominations).

Home On Native Land by The Hidden Cameras

Aptly titled Home on Native Land, the new record conveys Gibb’s own interpretation of country music and a romanticized take on Canadiana. Speaking to Exclaim!, he jokes that this is the album that “has taken longer to make than Chinese Democracy,” as work on it began as far back as during the sessions for 2006’s Awoo, with Gibb steadily chipping away at it while Origin:Orphan and Age saw releases.

1000 Arms by Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo will release their new studio album, 1000 Arms, on October 28! The 12-track album was co-produced and engineered by Tim Vesely, a founding member of the Rheostatics.

1000 Arms is available digitally and on CD, and vinyl through BlueRodeo.com. All pre-orders of the album will receive an instant download of four tracks from the new album!

Living Under June by Jann Arden

Originally released in August of 1994, Living Under June is the second album by Canadian singer/songwriter Jann Arden.

“Could I Be Your Girl”, “Insensitive” and “Good Mother” were all significant hits for Arden in Canada, with “Wonderdrug,” “Unloved” and “Looking for It (Finding Heaven)” also becoming Canadian adult-contemporary hits. “Insensitive” was Arden’s biggest hit internationally, entering the Top 40 in several countries, including Italy and the United States (#12 on the Billboard Hot 100). In the U.S., “Could I Be Your Girl” was also a minor adult contemporary chart hit (#33). Total worldwide sales for this album come to 1.3 million, with 600,000 Canadian, and 500,000 US.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas by Jane Coop

It is only in the last twenty-five years that there has been any serious investigation into the wealth of achievement that is Joseph Haydn’s. His keyboard music in particular has been given attention mainly by amateurs and teachers, with very few performances on the concert stage. For this release, Jane Coop has tackled Haydn’s piano sonatas. Haydn’s treatment of the piano sonata is nothing less than bold and innovative. Every movement explores an entirely different range of musical thought, with tremendous variety in mood, texture and rhythm. Jane Coop is widely known as Canada’s most brilliant pianist. She appears regularly with major orchestras in North America. Critics have applauded her “virtuosic ease” and found her playing “completely beguiling.” She lives in Vancouver, where she is Professor of Piano and Chamber music at the University of British Columbia.