“You Move is about savoring the unexpected fruits that reveal themselves amid times of uprootedness. It is a song about putting trust in the glimmer of new love, and carefully sowing the seeds for it to sustain. Both thematically and sonically, it’s about searching, surrendering and allowing yourself to relish. My hope is that “You Move” invites people into the world of my soon-to-be-finished sophomore album – a world that encompasses a full-swing of emotionality, and lets loss and pleasure dance together. I’m so excited to share the song and video ahead of my first-ever UK/EU shows.” – Avery Friedman (she/her)
“Scarily accomplished…Inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness.” – KLOF MAG
“Her full-length debut, New Thing, is a work of raw singer/songwriter confessionalism, evoking the knotted melodies, homespun arrangements, and searing edges of musicians like Squirrel Flower, Babehoven, or Adrienne Lenker.“ – UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE
“Plenty of stakes present themselves in debut efforts, but Friedman stands before audiences fearless – 5/5.” – NEW NOISE MAGAZINE
"Open Up Your Heart"
- The Line of Best Fit's New Music Discovery
“A gentle yet emotionally charged track about the temptation to return to familiar habits, even when they no longer serve us...With Daredevil, Crimson99 is opening the door to what promises to be an instinctive and deeply personal artistic journey.”
- VERGE Magazine UK
“‘Open Up Your Heart’ is rich indie rock with touches of folk that touches on hope..Crimson99’s unique voice reels the listener in, hitting the bullseye with emotion and conviction.”
- ColoRisng
“The song showcases her vocals, which while being soulful and smooth, also have the slightest bit of grit that helps suck you in and elevates the song to the next level."
- If It's Too Loud
“There's a particular way light particles interact that Montreal-based folk singer-songwriter Edwin Raphael captures in his thoughtfully expansive, globe-trotting soundscapes. "Mosaic in the Sun" and "A Sunbeam Lent to Us Briefly," arrive with the breathless wonder of language's inability to articulate the emotional heft of a momentary prism falling upon the scene just so.”
- Exclaim!, Most Anticipated Albums of 2026
“...it’s indie folk with enough orchestral weight to fill a room. These are songs built for distance and open windows.” - Montreal Rocks
“Buzzing drones meet uplifting guitar melodies as Edwin Raphael’s imaginative narrative unravels on First Time on Earth. The ebbs and flows from bursts of energy to pulled-back introspective moments. Life brings with it more questions than answers, but it’s seeking beauty in the mundane, in the wonder of small miracles, that we find meaning."
CBC Music, 'Songs You Need To Hear’
THAO returns with Show Me, her first album in six years, and it’s a record about what happens when you stop trying to keep parts of yourself at a safe distance. We talk about divorce, desire, queer identity, family, Vietnam, community, and the uncomfortable work of changing how you move through the world. We also get into collaboration, the many forms her storytelling has taken, and the difference between telling your story and actually letting someone see you. This is a thoughtful, funny, deeply human conversation with an artist still willing to question herself.
Will Schwartz spent more than a decade writing fiction before The Male Pattern brought him back to music. On If It Be Your Will, we talk about I Was Shot in the Heart! — a darkly funny, deeply human concept album about a bitter suburban dad who sees himself as the hero of his own tragedy. Will talks about growing up with music and writing, fatherhood, rediscovering the joy of making things simply because you want to, and why hiding behind a fictional character can sometimes reveal more truth than writing about yourself.
"I am absolutely head over heels in love with this record. It absolutely made my day. The lyrics, the narrative structure: it’s some Randy Newman-level shit. Just brilliant stuff all around." - Chris Ingalls (PopMatters)
“The Male Pattern (aka Will Schwartz) explores the darker side of straight white male consciousness in his upcoming concept album I Was Shot in the Heart! (out September 25.) Schwartz's ice-cold character sketch on "I'm a Solider" exposes the self-pitying paranoia behind the conservative mind, all while skewering country music tropes.” – Rainbow Rodeo
"We’re not certain a satirical concept album described as “Springsteen meets Ween” was on our bingo card of releases in 2026, but sometimes you only realise you’ve been waiting for something when it finally arrives...The undeniable irony and playfulness do nothing to undermine the heartbreaking loneliness running through its heart. An anthem of America in 2026, where vapidity, ridiculousness and mean-spirited self-interest feel like symptoms of some dark, cursed pathology lurking beneath the surface."
– Various Small Flames
Shiloh Lindsey grew up the youngest of six on a ranch in south-central Alberta before her family moved west to the Robson Valley of British Columbia — where the Caribou Mountains rise on one side, the Rockies shoulder in from the other, and the Fraser River winds through the middle like a silver thread. It’s a place where winters hold tight, and sound carries differently. Her now-departed cowboy father still rides through her songs, woven into lyrics like dust into old denim.
