Absent Sounds Archive

Today's episode finds us mid-brunch, mid-tour with youbet — Nick Llobet and Micah Prussack, joined by Jolie Gordon and Adam Berkowitz — walking through their self-titled record from top to bottom. It's been a whirlwind...

Jed Arbour is a force to be reckoned with. We caught them in Calgary during Sled Island, a day after they played a set concussed — bucked in the face by her neighbour's horse, yet soaking in the magic from her favourite...

Today on Absent Sounds we're talking to Salami Rose Joe Louis — the project of Lindsay Olsen — at Sled Island, playing through her 2025 record, Lorings. If you know her earlier work, Lorings might catch you off guard...

We caught up with SamWoy — the project of Juno-winning musician and producer Sam Woywitka (Half Moon Run, Patrick Watson, Teke Teke, Luca Fogale) — at Sled Island in Calgary, where he was in town for two sets — one at...

In today's episode of Absent Sounds, we sit down with jc, the brain behind the beast that is friends&, to talk through folx. It's the 2026 record from the Toronto collective sprawling 112-tracks, and eight years in the...

Greg Mendez's Beauty Land circles back to the same place again and again: forgiveness, offered and asked for, like a practice. This week on Absent Sounds, we sat down with Greg on the grass outside of the Sound Garage...

It has been a long time coming for Hikes to release new music. In every way, Winnower finds them stripped down to the truest version of themselves — built around the folk practice of separating grain from chaff. It's a...

One of our favourite albums of 2026 was released only 16 days into the year. 6 months in and we're still just as captivated by it as the day we first listened. That album was Shaking Hand by Shaking hand and this week...

Back in March we asked 10 artists at Treefort Music Fest 2026 some version of the same question: what question their music was trying to answer right now. This is the 3rd of four episodes. Three artists, without knowing...

Taupe is a shimmering four-piece from Montreal whose debut record New Window arrived this spring. We caught up with Andrew Miller, Heather Ogilvie, Jess Barry, and Evan Magoni before their show at the Cameron House...

Sometimes you go into a project trying to make sense of something and come out with a better sense of what you're trying to make sense of. This is the second of four episodes Absent Sounds made at Treefort Music Fest in...

There is a banner plane making loops over downtown Boise, as we showed up to record this episode. It says USA LOVES TRUMP. Below it, Treefort music festival is happening. This is the first of four episodes Absent Sounds...

In today's episode of Absent Sounds, we sit with Alice Gerlach: also known as alice does computer music. Her latest record, Bliss , is four ten-minute electroacoustic compositions assembled from cello improvisations...

On this episode of Absent Sounds, Will Wiesenfeld (Baths) sat across from us at a coffee shop in Toronto, hours before his show at Lee's Palace. We talked about Cerulean R, his expanded reissue of the 2010 debut that...

In today's episode of Absent Sounds, we sit with Alex and the world he built as Tōth. His latest record, And the Voice Said has been a compass for me these past few months- it imposes no answers on listeners, but pulls...