New Canyons Return After Eight Years With A Third Album Of Gloomy Dream Pop

Gossip Wolf was immediately smitten with New Canyons, aka Adam Stilson and Andrew Marrah, when they released their excellent sophomore LP, Everyone Is Dark, on BLVD Records in 2013. The duo’s deft, genre-bending songs swirl together synth-pop hooks and industrial rhythms and coat everything with a syrupy glaze of shoegaze-style atmospherics. In the years since, New Canyons have been pretty quiet when it comes to new recordings—the most they’ve managed was a brief burst of activity in 2017, which resulted in a single (with three remixes) and a stand-alone cover of Nirvana’s “Drain You.” But late last month they finally dropped their third album, Heavy Water, via FeelTrip Records—and this wolf is already fond of the deliciously brooding “Blackest” and “No Shame.” The digital album is available via Bandcamp, and you can preorder the vinyl (due to arrive later this month) either there or through the FeelTrip site.

GENESIS by Ivy Hollivana