Closed For The Festival is MIDI Janitor’s fourth full-length and is the follow-up to the Holy To Dogs LP, which was originally released on cassette in 2024 on legendary Vancouver tape label Hotham Sound and then in a vinyl edition by Toronto’s We Are Busy Bodies. Closed For The Festival will be the first MIDI Janitor record to be released exclusively by We Are Busy Bodies. The new album, Closed For The Festival, is a biography of Jonathan Orr’s shadow self. The album’s first single, ‘Sovereignty Figure’ is out today.
MXD is a nine-song set of expansive, progressive, art-leaning rock epics adorned with celestial saxophone, singular vocals, and kaleidoscopic arrangements. The project grew from an “old-school New York manager putting together a boy band” moment when veteran manager Steve Saporta connected the two artists when McCaslin needed a vocalist for his 2018 solo album Blow. Inspired by a conversation Ryan had with Donny’s young son Henry about his day, lead single, “Henry Takes The 5th” reframes the mundane through a child’s lens where the everyday feels enormous, heavy, and extraordinary.
Who’s Gonna Buy?, credited to The Lemon Dips, is a shadowy 1969 artifact from the UK’s golden age of psychedelic library music. Released on the Music De Wolfe imprint and likely performed by anonymous session players, the record drifts between fuzz-toned garage rock, freakbeat melodies, and mood-setting instrumentals designed as much for film and television as for home listening.
We Are Busy Bodies announces the signing of Japanese sound collage artist Oowets and the release of a brand-new album. The new album Uchuu (Space) is the most abstract work in Oowets’ career to date—a gentle collection of songs expressing inner sensations and a connection to the universe. Across these nine tracks, Oowet’s intention is that you will feel as if you are walking through a forest or drifting among the clouds.
Nearly 50 years on from its initial release, the Scottish jazz/rock outfit Head’s knotty, dexterous 1977 album Blackpool Cool is getting the reissue treatment, courtesy of Toronto’s ever-eclectic label We Are Busy Bodies. Initially released in a small run on the band’s own boutique record label and long out of print, the new pressing is freshly remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel and is ready to introduce Head’s expansive fusion compositions to a contemporary audience.
Today, Critically-acclaimed experimental band New Age Doom announces Angels Against Angels, its collaboration with H.R. (Human Rights), lead vocalist of the legendary Bad Brains, and releases the track ‘Amaseganalo pt.2’. The full album will be released on March 6, 2026 through Toronto label We Are Busy Bodies. The two-part album closer “Amaseganalo” (translating to “thank you” in Amharic) is nostalgic, uplifting, and emotionally charged, drawing on New Age Doom’s melodic post-rock influences and guided by the band’s profound respect for H.R. and the force of his voice...
Today, the singularly original, creative and musical mastermind, Rich Aucoin announces the final release in his quadruple album project Synthetic with its fourth Season announced to be released on October 30. This Season boasts the highest number of synthesizers of any of the previously released Seasons with its sounds being comprised of 103 unique synths. These 103 synths bring the total count for the four Seasons releases to 162 – a feat (arguably) never before achieved, and making it one of the most unique releases in music history.
For those just tuning into their programme, Vanity Mirror is the name under which the transnational musical duo of Canadian singer-songwriter-producer Brent Randall and Los Angeles-based drummer Johnny Toomey release music. Their debut record, Puff (2023), was a masterclass in lo-fidelity rock and roll, weaving together various strands of twentieth-century pop into a variegated sonic tapestry that is both rich in melancholic longing and radiant with technicolor exuberance...
Dun-Dun Band is a ten-member ensemble based in Toronto led by guitarist Craig Dunsmuir, inspired by North African gnawa music, American minimalism, progressive/post-rock and spiritual jazz. It features members of cross-genre jazz-informed groups The Weather Station, Eucalyptus, Badge Epoque Ensemble, GUH, and The Brodie West Quintet. Dunsmuir has long been drawn to the trance-like states that repetitive music and irregular rhythmic patterns...
We Are Busy Bodies announces a double LP compilation of Japanese ambient composer Ken-ichiro Isoda out on September 26. The double LP set is a compilation of 8 tracks from Isoda’s 6 CD albums released in 1990 and 1991, selected, edited, and reconstructed by himself. The album compiles two songs each from the albums “Beach of the Pliocene”, “Meditation of Clammbon”, “Majel’s Star”, and “Sparkle of Space Time.”...
Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards, somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.
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