With his latest album 'After Hours' having reached Number 1, The Weeknd has unveiled another video, this time for the song 'In Your Eyes'. This is actually the continuation to his previous 'After Hours' short film, in which the 'In Your Eyes' picks up from the elevator scene. Going all Jason style with a butcher knife from 'Friday the 13th', The Weeknd has clearly chopped up the male counterpart to the female (played by Zaina Miuccia) in the elevator. She then runs out in the street trying to get away from the R&B crooner before ending up in a nightclub. What has become a full blown horror short, Miuccia ends up getting her revenge towards the end. Check it out.
At this point, though there is still the anticipation for The Weeknd's forthcoming LP 'After Hours', which is out March 20th, even more excitement seems to have been generated by his acting in his previous videos. The Weeknd continues to highlight that side of himself in this new 'After Hours' short film. Directed by Anton Tammi, what you have here is the Toronto crooner pretending to be happy whilst in front of an audience, but as soon as he walks off stage the joy is rapidly transformed into sadness and a depressive state. Seemingly still battling demons, the real horror start once he's in an elevator with two other people. You'll just have to stay tuned for continued visuals. Have a look.
Canadian singer Alexandria Maillot released her impressive sophomore LP 'Benevolence' last year. One of the highlight songs on the album was the track 'Someone to Keep You Warm'. She now unveils the official video to the cut. Directed by Brendan Taylor, the story revolves around a guy who can't sleep and begins to suffer from that feeling of being alone to the point of hallucination. Having continuous visions of two women frantically dancing around him, paranoia forces him to run outside with fear.
Having unveiled her song 'Mistress Of The World' a week ago, Toronto singer Tyra Jutai now brings forth her latest track 'Nudes'. Whilst the previous tune definitely had a darker edge to it, 'Nudes' is brighter with sparkling production coinciding with Jutai's distinct vocals.
Canadian singer Amanda Rheaume steps forth with an empowering anthem, gathering the strength to leave a relationship that is toxic. The track titled 'The Best' is an epic pop handing full of stadium stomping power with Rheaume displaying sheer confidence and might in her performance. The song is the kick off to 2020, which follows her 2019 LP 'The Skin I'm In'.
The Weeknd has unveiled his latest video 'Blinding Lights' which is a continuation of the story line from 'Heartless'. Whilst behaving like a man who has completely gone mad, living life in the most reckless manner, the Toronto crooner drives around Los Angeles at high speeds and eventually finds himself in bad run in with gangsters. The Weeknd is definitely going into full on acting mode in these days, which in all fairness, he does quite a good job. The video is directed by Anton Tammi.
Rising Toronto vocalist Angélique expresses her raw love with her new track 'Heaven&Safety'. Delivering sultry and seductive vocals atop slow, nocturnal rhythms, the Canadian singer proves that she packs quite a punch in terms of soul.
Having released her critically-acclaimed EP 'Stone Woman' back in 2018, Toronto's Charlotte Day Wilson now returns with a gorgeous track titled 'Mountains'. Written with none other than Babyface, the tune is a slow-burning soul piece packed with emotion as Wilson's smokey vocals are utterly touching to the point of tear-jerking moments. Daniel Caesar provides the background singing for the song in which he adds a gospel touch.
Last year Canadian artist Kitzl stepped up with her experimental art pop cut such as 'Armadilla'. She then followed-up the song with further boundary pushing tunes like 'GSF' and '40 moons'.
Toronto noise rockers METZ are slated to release their new album 'Automat' on July 12th via Sub Pop. One of the songs featured on the upcoming LP is this riotous cut entitled 'Pure Auto'. Skewed guitar riffs along with thunder boom drumming are aided with distortion all backing the raging vocals of Alex Edkins.
