Category Archives: Lyrics

Forest City Lovers’ “If I Were a Tree”

By Justin | January 15, 2012

I was on YouTube the other day and came across a very catchy song by a band that gets nowhere near the attention it deserves: “If I Were a Tree” by Forest City Lovers. This song, with its cute yet rather vindictive lyrics, can be played on repeat for an hour without it getting old. [...]

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Hollerado’s “Good Day At the Races”

By Justin | November 30, 2011

Sitting at a respectable #11 (and having peaked at #9) on the Canadian alt rock radio charts this week, “Good Day At the Races” is, in the usual style of Hollerado, catchy, quirky, and fun power pop-rock. Selected as the first single off their 10-inch compilation album, Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning—which, interestingly, comes bundled with a [...]

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Bruce Peninsula’s “In Your Light”

By Justin | November 27, 2011

Airy guitars and quick plucks of the strings open Bruce Peninsula’s latest indie-gospel choir-rock tour de force, “In Your Light”. The ten-piece Toronto band’s second full-length album, Open Flames, was released last month after the year and a half of anticipation and sadness that followed band member Neil Haverty’s being diagnosed with leukemia. (Haverty’s cancer has [...]

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Said The Whale’s “Love Is Art / Sleep Through Fire”

By Justin | November 20, 2011

I would always sing along to the end of this song whenever I was playing through my Said The Whale albums in iTunes—it’s ridiculously catchy, to be sure—but I never paid much attention to the rest of the lyrics until tonight. My, are they beautiful: She knows the secret of the way into a lover’s [...]

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Library Voices’ “Generation Handclap”

By Justin | June 4, 2011

Sometimes it’s the little things in a song that fuse it together into one glorious, electro-infused rollicking good time. Library Voices’ “Generation Handclap,” just released on 7-inch vinyl as an early single from the upcoming full-length Summer of Lust, takes lots of little touches and melds them together into one sonic whole. The song’s energetic [...]

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Rah Rah’s “Towers”

By Justin | May 10, 2011

Apparently, Rah Rah slipped out a new EP last month with nary a mention on their blog or MySpace page. In fact, if I hadn’t heard the song “Towers” on CBC Radio 3, I probably would never have discovered it! That said, I’m glad I did. The Sailors EP, a three-song set following in the style [...]

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Mister Heavenly’s “Pineapple Girl”

By Justin | April 26, 2011

Typically, I accept only pure Canadian indie as being good enough for blogging, but one budding quasi-Canadian supergroup deserves recognition despite being only one-third Canadian. Enter, Mister Heavenly. Made up of Nick Thorburn (the Canadian, of Islands, Human Highway, and—back in the day—The Unicorns), Honus Honus (of Philadelphia’s Man Man) and Joe Plummer (of Modest [...]

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Malajube’s “Synesthésie”

By Justin | March 31, 2011

Every new release from Malajube provides the perfect opportunity to get a catchy, French-Canadian indie-pop beat stuck in your head. “Synesthésie,” the first single from Malajube’s yet-to-be-released album La caverne, is no exception. The song, which has been receiving airplay on Radio 3, is full of Malajube’s trademark space-y vocals and equally cosmic guitar and [...]

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Rah Rah’s “Ghosts”

By Justin | September 23, 2010

I find it a bit ironic that I discovered the best Canadian song of the summer, just as the season was drawing to a close—but am I ever glad to have discovered it! Rah Rah’s “Ghosts,” off their June release Breaking Hearts, is the kind of upbeat indie tune that renders you physically incapable of [...]

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Tokyo Police Club’s “Breakneck Speed”

By Justin | April 29, 2010

Newmarket, Ontario’s Tokyo Police Club may have hit the mainstream—or something very close to it—but fear not, indie lovers! The loss of indie obscurity alone isn’t enough to ruin this band’s appeal to any self-respecting indie rocker with a passion for catchy riffs, crafty vocals, and simple yet mysterious lyrics. I’m itching to see these [...]

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