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NOW’s favourite Toronto music of February 2021
We’re deep in quarantine winter doldrums, but great new Toronto music continues to drop. Today is Bandcamp Friday, so give a listen to some of our favourite new release albums, singles and virtual live performances and pick up what you can on Bandcamp wherever you can to send your money straight to the artists or their chosen charities.
And don’t miss this feature on Toronto podcasts, who continue to put out some of the year’s best music, or the new single from 2 Much TV podcast’s Pony.
New Toronto music: Albums
Black Alliance Vol. 1
Warner Music Canada is celebrating Black History Month with this EP that recognizes the influence of Black music trailblazers and honours the memory of the late Haydain Neale of Canadian soul band Jacksoul. The record unleashes label roster of up-and-coming artists like Just John x Dom Dias and Amaal for covers of classic tunes by Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, India.Arie and more. Jacksoul also makes an appearance covering Bill Withers.
Luna Li: Jams EP
We put this talented multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter in last year’s Sound of Toronto feature (stay tuned for this year’s) and she spent the year proving us right, though not in the way we woul
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Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West. Their songs are often rich in local, cultural, and geographical references. The band's most famous songs have been renditions of the folk music classics "The Log Driver's Waltz" and "Drunken Sailor", as well as a cover of the Arrogant Worms' "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". They have also developed a following for their brand of Canadian rock, with singles such as "Up the Hill", "Frozen Puck to the Head", "This Is Not a Sad Song", "Another Drinking Song", and "The Bastard of Strathcona County". In celebration of the release of the band's sixth album, North of the Yellowhead (2005 Six Shooter Records), Alley Kat Brewing Company released "Captain Tractor's Yellowhead Wheat Ale". Their seventh studio album, Famous Last Words, was released on May 3, 2011. A live record, Live at the Roxy, was released in 2015. To celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2018, the band released 25 Years On, a re-mastered retrospective with four new tracks recorded in February 2018 with Nik Kozub at The Audio Department in Edmonton, two unreleased tracks from the vaults, and seventeen previous tracks. In