Make Your Ears Happy – Jan and Feb 2019
Happy New Year! Like some critters, I’ve emerged from my winter hibernation. It looks like I left the oven on, so I’m dreading to see my hydro bill. What I also did was listen to a whack of music these...
Category: Instrumental
Make Your Ears Happy! May 16, 2017 Edition
As I put away my rubber rain boots and pull out my summer dresses, I’m reminded that I am a man who doesn’t wear dresses, and that I should also probably make a new playlist. We see the return of...
Make Your Ears Happy! January 17, 2016 Edition
In this edition of Make Your Ears Happy, we bring you new stuff from some instrumental / post-rock giants, with new tracks from Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. Toronto indie darling Basia Bulat has another new tune, too. Listen...
Listen! Eluvium – Confessor
I love me some ambient instrumental music. One of the better ones in the business, in my opinion, is Eluvium. Eluvium (or Matthew Cooper as his parents named him) will be dropping an album on December 18 – just in...
Listen! God is An Astronaut – Helios Erebus
Irish rock instrumentalists, God Is An Astronaut, return with a new album and a new song for us to lose our thoughts in. Both the song and album are called Helios Erebus, which just rolls off the tongue. New track...
Listen! Ratatat – Cream on Chrome
Brooklyn instrumental indie electro rockers (how is that for a lot of adjectives?) Ratatat have returned. The duo played Coachella this past weekend (pfft, who didn’t?) and dropped a new song during their set, and then also on the Internet....
Listen! Inventions – Escapers
Hopefully you’ve been paying attention to the music being dropped by Eluvium’s Matthew T. Cooper and Explosions In The Sky’s Mark T. Smith (himself being a past interviewee on PHM). The duo are known as Inventions, and have a new...
Listen! Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Peasantry or ‘Light! Inside of Light!
The exclamation marks found in our Listen! or Watch! segments just got quadrupled, and I sure as hell ain’t complaining. Why is that? Oh, because one of my favourite bands of all time, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, just announced a...
Listen! Inventions – Peregrine (plus The Field’s remix)
We have a double dose of music for you today. We bring you the Eluvium / Explosions in the Sky project, Inventions, which we featured recently with Springworlds. They have a new track off of upcoming March 16 release called...
Listen! Cold, Cold Heart – Megan
We bring you more post-rock instrumental music from Cold, Cold Heart. Their latest track is called Megan, and features a cello and viola, two instruments that are clearly a flash in the pan and have no staying power in music....
Listen! Inventions – Springworlds
Previous PHM interviewee Mark T Smith of Explosions in the Sky teamed with Eluvium (aka Matthew Cooper) and previously formed the lovely outfit Inventions. The ambient instrumental duo produced tracks like Entity and Peaceable Child. They have bashed out another...
Listen! Turtle – Lavender
No, the dude from Entourage doesn’t have a music career that features on PHM. Turtle is in fact a Glasgow-based producer named Jon Cooper. He is following up his Who Knows EP with his latest EP, Colours. Our first listen...
Listen! Loscil – Sturgeon Bank
Some more unique and fascinating stuff from Vancouver-based Loscil. We featured their first release, Ahull, which was also a strong one. The latest effort from the upcoming November 17 release of Sea Island is called Sturgeon Bank. The track is...
Listen! Cold, Cold Heart – Wolf Eyes, You’re Staring
Some more music from the post-rock world. We have an act from the UK called Cold, Cold Heart (named after my ex-girlfriend, apparently). They play a mix of guitar, EBow, slide guitar, bass, 6-string bass, piano and synthesizer in their...
Listen! MONO – Cyclone
More post-rock instrumental music by a group that excels at it. The band are MONO from Japan, and they’ve already dropped Where We Begin. If you recall, they are releasing TWO ALBUMS on the same day. A darker one, and...
