Tin Angel

Niemi, Eliza

Progress Bakery

Tin Angel

Kneading dough is tricky—you should know how it’s supposed to feel. If you try too hard you could make it worse. It’s a beautiful practice—creation with a gentle touch, to work at something so it can be left alone. “If it’s too drawn out it’s awful. It’s easy to give too much.” Dance in the mirror. Contemplate your veiny hands. Who do they remind you of?On Progress Bakery, her second album as a solo artist, Toronto artist Eliza Niemi knows to leave some questions alone—to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. It doesn’t have to be hard. The feelings and revelations they provoke rise in the heat. The smell is sweet. Crispy on the outside and soft all the way through. She playfully slip-slides through words and sounds and images, delighting in surprise, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water, touching down briefly with uncommon grace.Music and words don’t always have to interact. Where she decides to keep them apart gives a new contour to where and how she puts them together. The kind of thing you’re supposed to take for granted with songs and their singers comes alive in Eliza’s hands—the little miracle of mixing, kneading, stretching, and stopping.

Southworth, John

When you're this, this in love

Tin Angel

When you're this, this in love is the thirteenth studio album from John Southworth following the release of his previous musical film, novel and podcast Rialto and the critically acclaimed Niagara. With When you're this, this in love he put all his signature sounds together so if somebody was going to ask what record of his they should listen to then this would be a good start because it has all his styles of song done pretty good on it. He mostly sings folk songs sometimes dressed up as lounge ballads, rock nocturnes, classical chansons, time traveling, lucid, jazzy feeling pop songs too. It might irk the base of your taste or the taste of your base. But it's not so contrarian as that. His songs are pleas. Laments. Jean Martin – drums and percussion Justin Orok – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar John Southworth – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards Ben Whiteley – bass with: Kevin Breit – electric guitar on "Wondering what went wrong" Rebecca Hennessy – accordion on "Tiny Tim" and "Vow;" trumpet on "Time to unwind;" peck horn on "Vow" Aline Homzy – violin on "Vow" and "Down in the under" Felicity Williams – vocals on "Angel landing" Jesse Zubot – violin on "Vertigo" and "Heroes of Eros"