The first song I ever heard by Edmonton dream-pop musician Jessica Jalbert was the melodic and mellow gem Lack Of A Lake. Climbing, clean guitar lines trade off with Jalbert’s pretty, drawling vocals, the effect like end-of-summer sun on bare skin.

After five solo albums, Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt finally feels confident with full musical self-expression – and he’s abandoning his given name to do it.

On the cover of Eamon McGrath’s third album, Young Canadians (White Whale), the 23-year-old folk rocker is surrounded by piles of vinyl and CDs in a gritty shoebox-sized record shop on New York’s Lower East Side.

Graham Douglas Bertie should be in Glasgow but is instead stuck in an airport in Berlin.