After an undeserved two decades in musical purgatory outside their native Canada, Cowboy Junkies who kicked the genre system up the arse in 1986 with ‘Whites Off Earth Now’ and follow up ‘The Trinity Sessions’ are back, having dumped major label Geffen for the indies with a repackaged repertoire. Not only are they releasing new material by the bucketload, but we can expect four albums in the near future under the guise of The Nomad Series, Volume 3 ‘Sing In My Meadow’ being the current LP under review.

Arctic is Swedish artist Thomas Denver Jonsson’s fourth solo album; this time released under the name I’m Kingfisher. The record, produced by the musician himself, is folk, acoustic and indie-influenced, with a relaxed, yet relatively depressing mood, and contains somewhat confusing song titles.

Ottawa based Orienteers, purveyors of a rare species of music entitled “Space-Folk” have released an eponymous long-player as follow up to 2008’s ‘Staying Place’ (at which point they were known as That’s The Spirit) and it’s aural Marmite.

Montreal-based trio Trips and Falls’ new album is somewhat of a disappointment. In fact – it could even be said that their band name is reflective of their music – it kind of meanders along through the album and never truly achieves momentum.