25, but the physical release only arrived a month later. label Feeding Tube and European label Les Albums Claus, is only finding its way into North American mailboxes and record stores now.īasia Bulat’s The Garden came out via Montreal label Secret City on Feb. Myriam Gendron’s beautiful folk release Ma délire - Songs of Love, Lost & Found was the toast of 2021 best-album lists, but the vinyl, a joint release between U.S. 25, but the physical release was a month later. In terms of Montreal artists, Basia Bulat’s The Garden came out via local imprint Secret City on Feb. Noted vinyl revivalist and Third Man Records founder Jack White even called his upcoming tour, which stops at Place Bell in Laval on April 16, the Supply Chain Issues Tour. Fans of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis had to wait a little longer for the physical release of the duo’s album Carnage last year. No one is immune to delays, even industry vets and big label acts. Friday is weekly release day for the music industry, but it’s becoming more common for vinyl to come weeks or even months after the initial digital launch. Meanwhile, vinyl pressing plants are stretched thin as demand for the format grows and the costs for materials balloon. ![]() ![]() Sales are up a tick for the first time since 2004, but in March, Sony announced the closure of its last disc production facility in the U.S., moving its entire operations to Salzburg, Austria. On his website, the $40 double LP of Bubba is long sold out, and with vinyl releases treated more like collectors’ items these days, once they’re gone, you never know when they might return.Ĭontrary to rosy reports earlier this year, the compact disc is not making a comeback. Even Kaytranada’s Bubba, the Grammy winner for best dance/electronic album in 2021, was never released on CD, unless you want to give an eBay bootleg a try. (Adele’s former label home), expect that to be rectified. Photo by Chachi RevahĪt the moment, you won’t be able to find Skiifall - one of the most exciting young artists to emerge from the city - in a record store, but now that he’s signed to XL Recordings in the U.K. Montreal’s Backxwash won the Polaris Music Prize in 2020 for God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It, an album that doesn’t exist in any physical form. Whereas my collection of Montreal music from the indie heyday just over a decade ago is neatly catalogued on my shelf, the current era is a hodgepodge of playlists and mislabelled files, at risk of getting lost in the shuffle. It’s an album that doesn’t exist in any physical form, or even on streaming services thanks to sampling issues. When Montreal’s own Backxwash won the Polaris Music Prize in 2020 for God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It, there was no official CD to hand out. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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