Each week, staff from CBC Music, Radio 2, 3, Sonica and CBC regions across the country collect songs they just can't get out of their heads, and make a case for why you should listen, too. Press play below and discover new songs for your listening list.
Let us know in the comments or via @CBCMusic what catches your ear, or if you have a new song you just can't stop playing.
Bear Mountain, 'Hopeful'
One listen. That's all it will take for Vancouver electro-dance group Bear Mountain to win you over, splash a smile on your face and get you up and dancing with their latest single, "Hopeful." If it's your first time listening to any of the band's bright, infectious anthems, it's probably also in your best interest to play Bear Mountain's 2013 album, XO, and dance your face off while you're at it. Keep it all on repeat and you'll burn more calories than you had planned to all week.
— Emma Godmere (@godmere)
Grimes feat. Aristophanes, 'Scream'
On "Flesh Without Blood," electro-pop savant Grimes infuses her saccharine melodies with a heavy punch of guitar riffs, adding a jagged edge to her otherwise slick, icy production. Our second glimpse at her highly anticipated new album, Art Angels, takes that edge to the extreme. "Scream" translates quite literally with bone-chilling howls between verses by Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes, an artist whom Grimes discovered via Soundcloud. (Grimes doesn't sing at all on this track.) It’s a hyper two-and-a-half-minute explosion of buzzing guitars and rumbling beats — strange, and perhaps unexpected, but it’s that element of surprise that keeps us on the edge of our seats with Grimes.
— Melody Lau (@melodylamb)
Benjamin Hermann, 'Crown of Flies'
The clocks only just went back an hour across most of Canada (stick to your guns, Saskatchewan!), and almost instantly my musical mood switched to cozy and sparse, with warm recordings becoming my new faves. Sweater music for sweater weather. Enter Benjamin Hermann: originally from North Bay, Ont., but having since lived in Whitehorse, Germany and Russia, Hermann knows a thing or two about music tailor-made for cold, short days. This Southern Souls recording with delicate finger-picking and a Bon Iver-type voice a notch above a whisper just might get me through. Put this on repeat — I'll see you in April.
— Judith Lynch (@CBCJudith)
Basia Bulat, 'Infamous'
I want to stay away from the cliché singer-songwriter title for this one because Toronto-based musician Basia Bulat is so much more than that. For one, "Infamous," the first song off her new record, Good Advice, demonstrates Bulat's hard work coupled with her desire to grow as a musician after each release. Add in My Morning Jacket's Jim James as producer plus a bolder sound with strong drums alongside Bulat's powerful voice, and it makes for quite the re-introduction. Bulat has already announced a tour in the new year and, if I were you, I would get your tickets before it sells out (and it will). Good Advice drops Feb. 12 on Secret City Records.
— Matt Fisher (@MattRFisher)
Alessia Cara, 'Wild Things'
Alessia Cara’s newest single is an anthem for the rabble-rousers, another middle finger to all the conformers in the crowd: "We brought our drum and this is how we dance/ no mistakin’, we make our breaks, if you don’t like our 808s/ then leave us alone.” Cara’s singing for the outcasts, and both the drum beat and chorus will take her listeners to the frontlines.
— Holly Gordon (@hollygowritely)
by Holly Gordon via Electronic RSS
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