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Touring was off the table for much of 2021, but releasing albums certainly wasn't. Throughout the year, Canadian artists cranked out outstan...

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They say to do a cover right, you have to make it sound like your own song. In that case, Lauren Spear's father definitely did them right. W...

Open share drawer Simone Schmidt and company navigate interior and exterior life with country-inflected improvisations that stretch out like a long summer afternoon. The contemporary musician’s to-do list only gets longer and more obtuse in the name of Engagement and Content: write funny tweets, gaze into the TikTok abyss, maintain a carousel of fresh photographs, sprinkle it all with carefully maintained parasocial politeness. Simone Schmidt has never really played the game. And why would...

[You’ve Changed] Fiver is the musical project of Toronto-based singer, guitarist, and producer Simone Schmidt. Schmidt’s latest work is a collaboration with drummer Bianca Palmer and multi-instrumentalists Nick Dourado and Jeremy Costello. Schmidt recorded with the trio—dubbed the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition—in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People near Nova Scotia. Schmidt produced the album, which explores an improvisational approach...

Fiver Announces New Album with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition Lead single "Leaning Hard (On My Peripheral Vision)" comes with an eight-minute documentary on its creation You Wanted Country? Vol 1. The collaborators have now revealed that a full-length album of original songs,  Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition, is due for release on May 7 via Youve Changed Records. Schmidt devised the albums eight songs with drummer Bianca Palmer, guitarist/saxophonist ...