Ekko Astral have released a new song, ‘on brand’, lifted from their debut LP pink balloons. The album comes out in full tomorrow, April 17, and it includes the previously shared cuts ‘baethoven’ and ‘devorah’. Check out ‘on brand’ via the accompanying video below.
Lunar Vacation Cover the Ramones’ ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’
Lunar Vacation have offered their take on the Ramones’ ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’. Listen to it below.
“We enjoyed the process of reimagining ‘I Wanna Be Sedated,’ and only drove ourselves a lil crazy in the process,” the band shared in a statement. “I guess you could say the lyrics manifested themselves. This was a fun song to try to make our own ahead of making our new album.”
Lunar Vacation’s debut LP, Inside Every Fig Is A Dead Wasp, came out in 2021. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Lunar Vacation.
Slow Pulp Share Cover of Lifehouse’s ‘Hanging by a Moment’
Slow Pulp have released a cover of Lifehouse’s 2000 hit ‘Hanging by A Moment’, which was previously available as a part of The FADER‘s transgender charity compilation. The band also recently performed the song during a live session for SiriusXMU. Take a listen below.
“’Hanging By A Moment’ is one of those songs that I really loved when I was a kid but hadn’t realize the way it had influenced me in my songwriting until much later on,” guitarist Henry Stoehr explained in a statement. “I feel like this song kind of lives somewhere in between alt rock and pop music, which is something we’re all pretty drawn to as a group. We wanted to try to provide a new take on the song, while also highlighting how cool the original song is.”
Slow Pulp released their latest album, Yard, in 2023 Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Slow Pulp.
The Bird Calls Announces New Album ‘Old Faithful’, Shares New Single
The Bird Calls, the project of singer-songwriter Sam Sodomsky, has announced a new album called Old Faithful. The follow-up to last year’s home-recorded Exodus All Over is due for release on May 31 via Ruination Record Co. Listen to the LP’s title track below.
Opening up about ‘Old Faithful’, Sodomsky said in a statement: “I was particularly inspired by the following quote from Nick Cave from his book with Sean O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage: ‘As I’ve gotten older, I have also come to see that maybe the search is the religious experience—the desire to believe and the longing for meaning, the moving toward the ineffable… Perhaps God is the search itself.’ I thought his logic could apply to both spiritual and romantic devotion, and that each requires a lot of patience and active attention. Today’s prayers are only good for today.”
Produced with Nico Hedley and Ian Wayne, the new album features contributions from Jason Burger (Scree, Twain, Big Thief), Winston Cook-Wilson (Office Culture, Winston C.W.), Katie Battistoni (Katy the Kyng), Andy Cush (Garcia Peoples, Domestic Drafts), and Shaughnessy Jones (Trash Girl).
Old Faithful Cover Artwork:
Old Faithful Tracklist:
1. Old Faithful
2. Old Folks
3. I Haven’t Been This Happy In A Long Time
4. Going Insane
5. Total Gunpowder
6. Daisy Chain
7. Pleasing Myself
8. Footprints
9. Home Advantage
10. Faith People
11. I Wish That We Could Fall In Love Again
12. Worst Trip
13. Metronome Song
Cassandra Jenkins Announces New Album ‘My Light, My Destroyer’, Shares New Single ‘Only One’
Cassandra Jenkins has announced she has signed to Dead Oceans and will release a new album, My Light, My Destroyer, on July 12. The follow-up to 2021’s An Overview on Phenomenal Nature is led by the new single ‘Only One’, which arrives with a video directed by Lydia Fine and Tony Blahd. Check it out below.
“It’s about a Groundhog Day effect, finding yourself in the same situation over and over again, not knowing how to get out of that loop—and in some sense, an unwillingness to break a cycle because you’re blinded by your circumstances,” Jenkins said of the new song in a statement. The opening line, “seasick dawn,” was inspired by her friend Kristin Andreaasen and describes the “queasiness that comes with meeting a new day, dry eyed, in a string of sleepless nights.”
Speaking about An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, Jenkins added, “I was channeling what I knew in that moment– feeling lost. When that record came out, and people started to respond to what I had written, my plans to quit were foiled in the most unexpected, heartening, and generous way. Ready or not, it reinvigorated me.”
When it came to recording a follow-up, Jenkins explained, “I was coming from a place of burn out and depletion, and in the months following the session, I struggled to accept that I didn’t like the record I had just made. It felt uninspired, so I started over.” Working with producer Andrew Lappin, My Light, My Destroyer, she began reconstructing My Light, My Destroyer. “When we listened back in the control room that first day, I could see a space on my record shelf start to open up, because the songs were finding their home in real time. That spark informed the blueprint for the rest of the album, and its completion was propelled by a newfound momentum.”
The LP includes contributions from Palehound’s El Kempner, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Isaac Eiger (formerly of Strange Ranger), Katie Von Schleicher, Zoë Brecher (Hushpuppy), Daniel McDowell (Amen Dunes), producer and instrumentalist Josh Kaufman, producer Stephanie Marziano (Hayley Williams, Bartees Strange), and Jenkins’ friend, director/actor/journalist Hailey Benton Gates (who inspired the An Overview‘s ‘Hailey’ and jokingly suggested the title of the new album’s closing track, ‘Hayley’).
“Awe is a function of nature that keeps us from losing connection,” Jenkins shared. “Staying in touch with awe, that light, is the best antidote to fear, and the powers that try to control us with fear. So in that sense, staying in touch with awe is to keep my light intact, and that is my greatest tool for destroying and dismantling the parts of myself and the world around me that have the potential to cause harm. Frankly, this is what keeps me from quitting—it serves as a reminder to pause and appreciate my time on earth, for all its chaos and its beauty.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Cassandra Jenkins.
My Light, My Destroyer Cover Artwork:
My Light, My Destroyer Tracklist:
1. Devotion
2. Clams Casino
3. Delphinium Blue
4. Shatner’s Theme
5. Aurora, IL
6. Betelgeuse
7. Omakase
8. Music??
9. Petco
10. Attente Téléphonique
11. Tape and Tissue
12. Only One
13. Hayley
Belle and Sebastian Release New Single ‘What Happened to You, Son?’
Belle and Sebastian have released a new single, ‘What Happened to You, Son?. It arrives ahead of North American tour, which kicks off April 23 in Atlanta. Listen below.
Discussing the new song, Stuart Murdoch said:
‘What Happened to You Son’ got pulled rather randomly from the last LP because the LP felt one track too long. Out it came.
The song is about my youth, and the funny hole I fell into in my late teens. I was failing at my university course, failing in almost everything I tried around then. I was obsessed with the music of the time, I used to hang so much on the lyrics and message and feeling of certain bands of the 80s era – it probably wasn’t healthy.
So although the theme of this song is a little accusatory, the fault is with the beholder. I could have switched off at any time. Instead I let the singers become my penpals and my deities.
The song tries to address what happens when the pop stars grow up, and change, and go a different way, and seem to betray the stance they held when you loved them the most.
The song finishes hopefully, however. There’s always a way forward, always a light to guide you if you look closely, if you give up part of yourself, if you let yourself flow and change.
Belle and Sebastian released their latest album, Late Developers, last year.
Strand of Oaks Shares Video for New Song ‘Party at Monster Lake’
Strand of Oaks has released ‘Party at Monster Lake’, the second single from his upcoming album Miracle Focus. Arriving on the heels of ‘More You’, the track comes paired with a video from director Ruud Gielend. Check it out below.
“When Tim asks to embody having the best time of your life on video, there is only one way to go: do it while making memories with loved ones,” Gielend commented in a statement. “‘Party at Monster Lake’ feels like how we want to relive our memories. Golden sunsets, the best weather, no clock ticking and smiles for days.”
Menomena Release Surprise New EP ‘The Insulation’
Menomena have returned with a surprise three-song EP called The Insulation. It marks the Portland art-rock band’s first new music since 2013’s ‘Toomer’, which was recorded during the same sessions as their 2012 album Moms. Each member takes lead vocals on a different track: Danny Seim sings the title track, Justin Harris sings ‘Copious’, and Brent Knopf handles ‘Caravan’. Take a listen below.
The Insulation is also Menomena’s first project with Knopf since 2010’s Mines. In 2011, Knopf left the band to focus on Ramona Falls and then the duo El Vy with the National’s Matt Berninger, and Danny Seim went on to collaborate with different member of the National, drummer Bryan Devendorf, in the band Pfarmers. Harris has been playing bass in Bloc Party from 2015-2023.
Loma Announce New Album, Unveil New Song ‘How It Starts’
Loma have announced their third LP, How Will I Live Without A Body?. The follow-up to 2020’s Don’t Shy Away is due June 28 via Sub Pop. The first single, ‘How It Starts’, is out today alongside a video directed by and starring the band’s Emily Cross. Check it out and find the album cover (by Lisa Cline) and tracklist below.
To make the new album, the band regrouped in a tiny stone house in the UK, where Cross works as an end-of-life doula. “Sitting in our heavy coats around a little electric radiator, we realised how much we’d missed each other—and that just being together was precious,” Meiburg recalled.
How Will I Live Without A Body? was inspired by Laurie Anderson, who offered a chance to work with an AI trained on her work. Meiburg sent two photos, to which Anderson’s AI responded with two poems. “We used fragments of these poems in ‘How It Starts’ and ‘Affinity’,” he explained. “And then Dan noticed that one of AI-Laurie’s lines, ‘How will I live without a body?’ would be a perfect name for the album, since we’d nearly lost sight of each other in the recording process.”
How Will I Live Without A Body? Cover Artwork:
How Will I Live Without A Body? Tracklist:
1. Please, Come In
2. Arrhythmia
3. Unbraiding
4. I Swallowed a Stone
5. How It Starts
6. Dark Trio
7. A Steady Mind
8. Pink Sky
9. Broken Doorbell
10. Affinity
11. Turnaround
Streamlining Transactions: E-Wallets in Canadian Online Casinos
They say the digital world is all about convenience, and nowhere does it ring truer than in online gambling. E-wallets have now seamlessly entered the transaction methods for Canadian casino players, allowing them to have their playing streamlined. E-wallets have several advantages, including better security, and they also provide fast withdrawals. Thus, most players prefer using it so that they avoid any hitches when it comes to money matters.
The Rise of E-Wallets in Canadian Casinos
E-wallets or digital wallets have seen a flood of popularity over the past few years, and with good cause. It is thus in this light that online money storage platforms develop to offer people secure money storage and transactions without requiring people to key in sensitive details regarding their financial accounts every time a purchase or deposit of money is made. In fact, e-wallets have become an integral part of the gambling experience in Canada’s gaming houses, offering the convenience and efficiency of cash management to players.
Neosurf Casinos: Prepaid Convenience
Neosurf has always been a pioneer in the e-wallet sub-sector of the Canadian online casino industry because it provides a very handy, prepaid voucher system. With Neosurf, it is possible for customers to obtain vouchers at brick and mortar or online outlets in differing forms of making payment. These comprise a unique 10-digit code which, in the purchase process, users redeem at Neosurf casinos in Canada reviewed by HolyMolyCasinos to finance their accounts. Since it is prepaid, Neosurf never allows its users to reveal personal or even financial details, for that matter, in any transaction; thus, the privacy and security levels are quite high.
In addition, almost all Canadian online casinos accept Neosurf vouchers, hence offering maximum availability and convenience to the gambler. Be he an experienced gambler or an absolute beginner in this world of online games, users find dealing with Neosurf to be very convenient and simple. For instance, imagine a Canadian player who wants to enjoy some slots or table games at their favorite online casino. Without the need to fumble through cumbersome payment procedures or issues revolving around the security of their financial data, the player will be able to purchase a Neosurf voucher from a local retailer, respectively, and instantly redeem it in his casino of preference. This smooth way of funding the accounts is one that will surely attract players who really like transactions that are free of hassle but still secure.
Casinos That Accept Skrill: Versatile and Reliable
Skrill comes in as another popular e-wallet choice among Canadian players; it comes with all the flexibility and reliability in managing gaming funds. Users can choose to link their bank accounts, credit cards, or other payment methods to their Skrill wallet. With that in place, users get to experience the seamless transfer of money from the Skrill account to the casinos that accept Skrill. Skrill has advanced security features with two-factor authentications and encryption protocols that give users the assurance that their financial information is secured while being transacted.
Perhaps the primary draw for Canadian players to consider Skrill is its wide acceptance—many online casinos will be at your fingertips. Whether it is depositing money to check out the latest titles in slots or to withdraw the winning amount, safe and quick transactions will be guaranteed through Skrill. To illustrate, consider a player in Canada who loves the thrills of live-dealer games but has to deal with several online casinos. With Skrill as the preferred method, he or she will move monies from one gaming account to the other without any delays and worries concerning security. This seamless experience, in any case, leads to an increase in the overall happiness associated with online gaming, letting a player place focus on the fun derived from gameplay rather than the logistical nuisances.
Fast Payout Casinos: Speed and Efficiency
Canadians prioritize fast payouts in casinos at https://holymolycasinos.com/fast-payout-casinos and resort to e-wallets. Canadians lay much emphasis on the requirement for e-wallets in Canadian casinos to facilitate speedy payouts. E-wallet solutions, like Skrill and Neteller, offer the ebb and flow for the quick withdrawal needed for players to get hold of their winnings Traditional withdrawal methods usually make customers wait for several days for their transactions to be processed, while e-wallets are usually processed in under 24 hours. The quick turnaround time significantly enhances a player’s experience, thus accessing his or her winning funds without any excessive delay or hitch. For example, imagine a Canadian player who has just hit a jackpot on their favorite slot game. They should place the withdrawal request through an e-wallet such as Skrill or Neteller and most probably see the money reflecting in their account within a day, giving them the leverage to enjoy their gains by reinvesting in more play. This has, therefore, seen players whose priority is on smooth and efficient withdrawal processes scrambling for fast payout casinos with support for e-wallet transactions.
The Benefits of Using E-Wallets in Canadian Casinos
But there are some great reasons to use an e-wallet in a Canadian casino. First, there is added security in that a user does not have to give the casino his personal or financial information. All the transactions are therefore safely processed through the E-wallet platform without exposure to fraud or identity theft. There is yet another added advantage of the E-wallet transactions being instant transactions, and it is the most convenient way for customers to deposit or withdraw money from the playing account.
Nevertheless, even if e-wallets are advantageous in many aspects, bettors still need to be very cautious of the associated fees or charges. There are even some e-wallet providers who really charge fees in relation to the activity that occurs within the platform, such as when you are depositing money into your account or withdrawing winning amounts. Additionally, there may be some currency conversion fees if one plays from an online casino running on another currency. Always go through the terms of service on e-wallets very keenly and consider what fees might impact the usage associated with your gaming.
Maximizing Convenience with E-Wallets
Convenience is the middle name of e-wallets. Be it in relation to depositing for a game draw, drawing out winnings, or even managing gaming funds, it is convenient at its best. The player can easily track the transactions, set limits of expense, and reach the funds from any internet-connected place. What it means to say, however, is that e-wallets are increasingly popular at Canadian casinos, giving the player plenty of choices. Chances are that one can certainly find the perfect e-wallet solution for them.
Security Measures in E-Wallet Transactions
Security, paramount on the top priority of online gambling, e-wallets do take strong actions to the financial information. E-wallet platforms use cutting-edge technology in the form of encryption to secure the transactions so that access to sensitive data is kept away from unauthorized persons. Most of the e-wallet platforms have double-authentication features and others to increase their security measures. With all of these, players using e-wallets will always have the assurance of their money being safe.
The Future of E-Wallets in Canadian Casinos
E-wallets in Canadian casinos will equally move with technology, which shall be carrying them along. Constant improvements in the processing of payment and security measures will most likely have the type of payment playing more roles in the user experience in casino games. E-wallets will meet the growing, constant needs of the players as they more and more look for the convenience, security, and efficiency of transactions. Such e-wallets will help easy, trouble-free, and smooth handling of funds within Canadian casinos.
Choosing the Right E-Wallet for Your Needs
When selecting the ideal e-wallet for your gaming needs in Canadian casinos, consider the following steps:
- Check out the available e-wallets: You may want to take a look and explore the different e-wallets available for Canadian players. Look at aspects such as transaction charges, modes of funding, and accepted casinos.
- Anonymity: If, at all, you value your privacy, then make sure you use the prepaid option, like Neosurf. The vouchers give you the opportunity to make anonymous transactions without necessarily having to give out your personal information.
- Review Security Measures: Look into the security features given by the e-wallet provider. Ensure that the platform at which you get a wallet offers strong encryption protocols and guarantees protection against financial fraud.
- Transaction Times Check: Make sure you take a look at the transaction times, as per both deposits and withdrawals. Fast payout casinos are the preference of a player; consider using e-wallets with the fastest transaction times.
- Read User Reviews: Look for other players’ feedback who have used the particular e-wallets that you may have in mind. Much information on the reliability of a platform, customer service, and general experience of a user is on user reviews.
- Interface test: If the service provider has a free trial offer or demo account, test with them. Try the platforms’ user interfaces and functions so that you will not feel like a fish out of water when time for the real deal comes.
From this, you can choose the e-wallet that fits your gaming preferences and needs in its characteristics, developing your overall experience in a casino in Canada.
