With elastic flows and effortless cool reminiscent of the missing link between Young Thug and Travis Scott, Duvy revitalizes modern rap music.

Calgary’s preeminent heavy groove quartet deliver an innovative album that’ll unfurl your solar sails.

Dump Babes confront themes of colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and identity with a disco-folk infused backdrop.

WAKE's eerie architecture casts a goosebump-raising shadow that’ll bring tears to your eyes and blood to your ears.

The veteran Montreal indie-pop group's first album in five years takes a look back on two decades and nine projects of work.

The legendary hardcore group find their way back to each other after 13 years apart with a refreshed perspective.

With pop-punk making its return, Sophia Bel’s Anxious Avoidant is the perfect re-introduction to this iconic genre for young music fans.

A taste of post-Frank Ocean genre-bending, Goûter drips with syrupy R&B-tinged vocals, washed out guitars, and silky drum loops.

The essence of Peach Pit’s music is true to its name; sweet, digestible, but with a melancholy undercurrent.

Injecting positivity and energetic riffs into the darkest spaces, Lights returns to the pop instincts that got her where she is today.

This eclectic neo-soul and jazz inspired album is a whirlwind of sounds and textures that infuses music with nature.

The Ajax, Ontario-based producer blends chopped up vocal samples, euphoric synths, and infectious breakbeats.

The Montreal electro-pop duo keep it cozy with their calming and airy vocals juxtaposed with icy synths and chaotic electronic soundscapes.

The Toronto-based roots rockers reinforce their classic rock values with a blue collared edge.

Relatable, poetic, and deeply vulnerable, Sister Ray’s Communion is full of abstract emotion.

The hovering mysteries of Dan Bejar's abstract lyricism are on full display with Destroyer's latest masterpiece.

Anthemic choruses and heart wrenching imagery delivered by a strikingly emotive voice round out renforshort's blunt and bouncy breakout.

The Vancouver indie stalwarts create a diptych of low-key, folky compositions and sweat-soaked, jangle-punk positivity.

Some of the year’s hardest-hitting rap tracks, Sinzere confronts the horrors of systemic racism over top party-starting beats and hooks.

Inspired by touchstones of Congolese music, the Montreal musician blends worldly styles with modern hip-hop and electronica.

Bringing their reverb drenched guitar sounds back to the forefront, Preoccupations found their sweet spot and perfected it.

Jack J's deep house philosophies are distilled into a moody collection of songs - some prime for introspection, others for dancing.

Blending shoegaze, synth-pop, and 80s balladry, Blue Rev is bursting at the seams with heartbreaking sadness and messy joy.

Featuring Daniel Monkman of Zoon and Adam Sturgeon of Status/Non-Status, Sewn Back Together is a chimeric blend of post-punk, dream pop, and folk

Orville Peck reclaimed his crown this year as king of the rodeo, charting a new course in country music with BRONCO.