Label Fantastic » admin https://labelfantastic.com Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 AMC Gremlin’s “return to cloud city” out today on Label Fantastic! https://labelfantastic.com/amc-gremlins-return-to-cloud-city-out-today-on-label-fantastic/ https://labelfantastic.com/amc-gremlins-return-to-cloud-city-out-today-on-label-fantastic/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:03:13 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1169 amc gremlin return to cloud city album coverA few days ago, I didn’t know a new album was coming out on Label Fantastic! today.

But this had to happen.  AMC Gremlin, and more specifically the creator behind the name, Andrew Collins, is not a stranger to LF!   We excitedly released his previous project Skeletones Four many years ago.  He is an old friend.  And a favourite creator.   When I found out a couple days ago that this album was coming out today, I asked permission for us to bring it in under our umbrella, to celebrate in the wonderful unexpected and much appreciated surprise that it is.

AMC Gremlin has a special way of creating a timeless warm sound that holds a familiarity that could easily be from an early 2000s homerock tape from a basement in Guelph, for those of us who carry a nostalgia for that.   But the reality is it’s all the new songs you were missing, songs that come with a heart-on-sleeve story arch that resonates with the big feelings that come from navigating a difficult world, but also an instrumental soundtrack that can carry you happily on a walk down the block, when you don’t find yourself needing to think to heavily about where you’re going.   It can be nice to be met with the music of an old friend – it can be nice to have a whole new album to pour into, while being brought back to some of your favourite feelings that friend has brought before.   I’m happy for this surprise and it’s place in our group here at LF!   Welcome back Andrew, and welcome AMC Gremlin!

Check out the album here:

https://amcgremlin.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-cloud-city

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/amc-gremlins-return-to-cloud-city-out-today-on-label-fantastic/feed/ 0 Pink Moth’s 4th full length release “Dark Oxygen” out today on Label Fantastic! https://labelfantastic.com/pink-moths-4th-full-length-release-dark-oxygen-out-today-on-label-fantastic/ https://labelfantastic.com/pink-moths-4th-full-length-release-dark-oxygen-out-today-on-label-fantastic/#comments Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:25:08 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1133 IMG_0525 Pink Moth is back!  A couple of years ago we were pleasantly surprised by a Pink Moth children’s album dedicated to Ray’s daughter Jessa, but it’s been a decade since Label Fantastic! helped supported Pink Moth with “Eclipsed” and we couldn’t have been more delighted when we discovered this new album was in the works.   And it’s finally here!  It’s dark and haunting, but with the slick synthy key-hooks we’ve come to look for from Pink Moth.   Ray’s ethereal voice shines front and center, bringing us through depths of haunting feelings, invitations to join Pink Moth in the night, out in a stormy ocean, from the horizon to the end of the world.  There’s a lot of room for these feelings these days, and Pink Moth has given us a perfect soundtrack.   Give it a listen over at Pink Moth’s bandcamp!

pinkmoth.bandcamp.com

Credits:

Released October 2, 2024

Written, performed and produced by Ray Cammaert.
Studios: the Tinshop, Attic Analog, Old South, Vaughan Public Library.

Mixed and mastered by Andy Magoffin at House of Miracles, Preston.
Pre-mix file prep by Andrew Collins, Montreal

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/pink-moths-4th-full-length-release-dark-oxygen-out-today-on-label-fantastic/feed/ 0 Guelph’s “Magpie” releases “Concessions” on Label Fantastic! https://labelfantastic.com/guelphs-magpie-releases-concessions-on-label-fantastic/ https://labelfantastic.com/guelphs-magpie-releases-concessions-on-label-fantastic/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:36:29 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1124 concessions cover

Magpie is definitely not new to Guelph, but it may be new to you!  It’s new to LF!  But this album is ready to win you over – with four talented and distinct contributing singing-songwriters, and a five member band who have their own various respective projects, Magpie is one of those bands that just fills a room with warmth pulling from all directions.  At some moments it feels like classic late 90′s/early 2000s east coast group legends like “The Guthries”.   At other moments, like a cousin of Julie Doiron, or Great Aunt Ida.  Then, moments later you’ll hear the influences of your favourite old country records and you’re teleported to the spirit of the Sadies.  There are guitar riffs, singing saw, and flute!  It changes and changes again.  A family formed of friends.  An instant old favourite, and one we’re glad to welcome to the group!   Welcome, Magpie!

Check out the album here:

https://therealmagpie.bandcamp.com/album/concessions

And the Artist page here

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/guelphs-magpie-releases-concessions-on-label-fantastic/feed/ 0 Wax Mannequin’s summer Prairie and Northern Ontario tour starts today! https://labelfantastic.com/wax-mannequins-summer-prairie-and-northern-ontario-tour-starts-today/ https://labelfantastic.com/wax-mannequins-summer-prairie-and-northern-ontario-tour-starts-today/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:18:05 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1107 Wax out west poster

Our dearest Wax is on tour through Northern Ontario and the Prairies!  And oyu can catch him starting tonight in Sudbury at Lounge 390, with local Sudbury act JEIDEI and LF!’s very own Jenny Omnichord!  And she’ll have her very limited “Jenny Omnichord Greatest Hits” with her!  There’s nothing quite like a JO and Wax show, those two are like twisty peas in a pod!  Come tonight if you can, and check out Wax’s other dates in case you can swing one!
Aug 6 – Sudbury – Lounge 390
Aug 7 – SS Marie – Adrian’s House
Aug 8 – Thunder Bay – Black Pirate
Aug 9 – Winnipeg – House Concert
Aug 10 – Saskatoon – Capitol
Aug 11 – Regina – The Artesian
Aug 14 – Lethbridge – The Slice
Aug 15 – Medicine Hat – Casa Amigos
Aug 16 – Calgary – Palomino
Aug 17 – Camrose – House Concert
Aug 18 – Edmonton – The Aviary
Aug 22 – Winnipeg – Royal Albert Arms
Aug 23 – 24 – Tumblestone Festival
Aug 25 – North Ontario TBA
Sept 13 – Smiths Falls – Bowie’s
Sept 20 – Toronto – Music on the River
Sept 21 – Hamilton – Casbah
]]> https://labelfantastic.com/wax-mannequins-summer-prairie-and-northern-ontario-tour-starts-today/feed/ 0 Jenny Omnichord’s Greatest hits! https://labelfantastic.com/jenny-omnichords-greatest-hits/ https://labelfantastic.com/jenny-omnichords-greatest-hits/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:05:08 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1111 Jenny O light through cover smallIn early 2000′s fashioned, LF! has released a burn disc that is the 21-track magic of “Jenny Omnichord’s greatest hits”!  She polled the collection of fans who responded on facebook, and put together the list.  Don’t agree that they’re her greatest hits?    Something missing?  Something you don’t want on there?   Reach out!   She’s handwriting the back covers, and burning the discs, so she can probably make a modified version for you.  If you’re a big fan.  Let her know how big of a fan you are and we’ll go from there.  The CD art is four overlays of the four full-length JO albums.  Hold the cover up to the light, it’s like stained glass!  Jenny is making the overlays in her basement using a heat press, acetates, and SCIENCE!  As homemade as a burned disk can get.   Reach out to Jenny to get your copy of Jenny Omnichord’s greatest hits today!Jenny O greatest hits small pic stack

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/jenny-omnichords-greatest-hits/feed/ 0 Sarah Good and the Bad’s “The Drifting” out now on Label Fantastic! https://labelfantastic.com/sarah-good-and-the-bads-the-drifting-out-now-on-label-fantastic/ https://labelfantastic.com/sarah-good-and-the-bads-the-drifting-out-now-on-label-fantastic/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:51:56 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1103 Smaller Copy of The Drifting Album art jacket frontWe are so very very pleased to announce that our Label Fantastic! family has expanded to include the Hamilton Ontario art rock brilliance that is Sarah Good and the Bads!  It’s exactly as special and weird as you’d expect from us, while also being more and different than everything else, too!  And it’s another parent on the roster!  The abundance of artists on label fantastic! that are also parents might be unmatched by any other label.  It’s a fabulous thing.  Don’t snooze on this record!   And welcome, Sarah, to Label Fantastic!

Check out the record at https://sarahgood.bandcamp.com/album/the-drifting

And the artist page here

And come see them play Guelph!  May 26th Satellite Collective show at Planet Bean (downtown) Guelph, w/Dark Bird, tab

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/sarah-good-and-the-bads-the-drifting-out-now-on-label-fantastic/feed/ 0 Total Eclipse https://labelfantastic.com/total-eclipse/ https://labelfantastic.com/total-eclipse/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:50:27 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1080 435691366_18424898272020946_3448571262691416959_nToday was a surreal day!  It was neat to imagine so many folks all looking at the sky at the same time, with weird little cardboard glasses, whether it was a 98% coverage like it was for us in Guelph, or a total eclipse not so far away.  The sky dimmed, birds pause mildly confused, and if you were on my (Jenny)’s front lawn, the soundtrack was Wax Mannequin and the Burning Hell (of course).  We may be back to a regular sun by now, and we may have stopped staring at the sky but if you’re feeling nostaglic for just a few minutes ago, maybe this track will take you back.

Many LF! new releases are on the horizon – stay tuned!

Wax Mannequin & The Burning Hell SIDE B Total Eclipse Of The Heart

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/total-eclipse/feed/ 0 Stormpath’s “Prometheus Found” out today on Label Fantastic! https://labelfantastic.com/stormpaths-prometheus-found-out-today-on-label-fantastic/ https://labelfantastic.com/stormpaths-prometheus-found-out-today-on-label-fantastic/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:40:23 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1063 IMG_0119We are really really excited to get to be a part of this release.  Stormpath‘s Rebecca Simpson has been creating magical music for over two decades, but she hasn’t always been easy to find.  She was one of Jenny’s first musical heroes, recording the Barmitzvah Brother’s first record way back in the year 2000, and being an integral piece of the music scene that gave that band its first shows.  Beginning as a “Mudpuddle”, it truly feels perfect that Rebecca has elevated to a Stormpath.  This album is the culmination of nearly two decades of recording.  Welcome Stormpath, to Label Fantastic!  Check out the release on her bandcamp: stormpath.bandcamp.com and read more about this release on Stormpath’s artist page

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/stormpaths-prometheus-found-out-today-on-label-fantastic/feed/ 0 New section of the site: OTHER PROJECTS https://labelfantastic.com/1043/ https://labelfantastic.com/1043/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:25:10 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=1043 59B7B14B-3C7C-4052-ABE7-A2B79A44DB76We added a drop down menu for “Other Projects”  The folks at Label Fantastic! are multitasking, multidisciplinary artists, and between making albums you can often find them wearing other interesting hats in their communities.  So come here for the music, stay for the other arts and projects!  Catch some shows!  Buy some historic-themed t-shirts!  Listen to podcasts!  So much to do and see adjacent to Label Fantastic!

]]> https://labelfantastic.com/1043/feed/ 0 Wax Mannequin’s “The Red Brain” https://labelfantastic.com/891/ https://labelfantastic.com/891/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:13:22 +0000 http://labelfantastic.com/?p=891 Screen Shot 2023-07-17 at 17.03.19

Have you checked out Wax Mannequin’s “The Red Brain”, yet?  Want to hear a silver lining in the form of songs that reflect a brilliant neurodiverse human who was creating and performing weekly during a global pandemic, while holding down the fort with his beautiful family?  Planting seeds, and telling stories, wearing masks and strumming a guitar in his pantry while distorted coloured videos flashed across his face and body?  Leave it to Wax Mannequin to make something so special during such a trying time.  Find your way to one of his shows, soon.  We’ve listed some of the dates below!  He’s playing most (or all) of the new record at all of his upcoming shows, many of which are with a giant magical band.  Find him!  Don’t miss him!  And grab his record at waxmannequin.bandcamp.com

Upcoming shows:

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