Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Gord Downie, Shawn Desman, Carly Rae Jepsen

BY Exclaim! StaffPublished Oct 21, 2022

Tick, tock. Where were you when the clock struck Midnights? Before or after you finish determining whether any songs on the new Taylor Swift album could potentially crack Exclaim!'s top 20 ranking, check out how Canadian artists are keeping time this week.

Bob Rock released "Lustre Parfait," a posthumous collaboration with the late, great Gord Downie, Shawn Desman's comeback single "Maniac" is here, and Fefe Dobson's got some dead batteries in her circulatory system.

Hopefully you didn't forget that it was also album release day for Carly Rae Jepsen — it's the same as Swift! — as well as Tegan and Sara, SloanTim Baker (The Festival), Quinton Barnes (For the Love of Drugs), Gloin (We Found This), Jordaan Mason & Their Orchestra (REWRITE THE WORDS AGAIN), BRASS (Look on the Bright Side), JEEN and Little Destroyer.

Speaking of which, there's also a new track from regular-sized Destroyer called "Somnambulist Blues." Elsewhere, Nemahsis squares up to an emotional "criminal" and Sister Ray takes on AC/DC's "Up to My Neck in You."

Quick! You're not going to want to miss a minute of The Eh! List below, presented by Mary Brown's Chicken & Taters — all Canadian and proud of it!

 

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