One of the smartest musical moves I ever made was paying for a Bandcamp subscribtion to the San Francisco label Text Me. Every few days they drop a new single or LP into my Bandcamp collection, and whatever they deliver is reliably fire—music that falls somewhere on the pop/hip-hop/electro spectrum, but is always decidedly iconoclastic in posture. Last month in this space I wrote about Anjali Asha’s fantastic EP Doomsday; for the last week, iamhill’s Sellout has been dominating my daily listening.
Edmonton-born artist, hill of iamhill, steers away from her previous R&B sound and into experimental pop that will pump out thrills and excitement from your speakers.
January might not be longer than all the other 31-day months of the year, but it certainly feels like it. Thankfully, as these four purgatorial weeks drudge on, we keep getting hearty doses of great new Canadian music to keep us toasty and warm.
Conversations with Juno-nominated alternative pop/electronic artist iamhill & the concert industry's most accomplished lighting design, Tom Kenny, on going from Dublin bar bands to stadiums with legends
HILL is 100% badassery all of the time. This song in particular is my favorite thing to blast when I am fed up and need to cut loose. I love the swagger of her vocals. The confrontational lyrics in the verses are unapologetic and honest.
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Despite still basking in the euphoria of her Juno- nominated album Give it a Rest. Canadian singer/songwriter Brenna Macquarrie a.k.a iamhill knows a thing or two about keeping a solid work ethic.
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Extra vicious, hard-hitting pop. This is SALT
Nobody can predict the future. Not least the future of music, dictated as it often is by factors beyond just talent. But there are some artists so fizzing with potential that their success seems predestined.
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