Late Show by The Beaches

Late Show, the debut album from Toronto's the Beaches, came out on Island Records on October 13, 2017, and they had heavy hitters in their corner: Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw produced it. The band had been at it since 2009, with Jordan Miller singing and playing bass, Kylie Miller and Leandra Earl on guitars, Earl adding keyboards, and Eliza Enman-McDaniel on drums, and two EPs had already sharpened their attack.

It's a glammy, swaggering rock record, all fuzzed-up riffs, strutting grooves and choruses with a wink in them. "Money" was the calling card, earning a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination, and "T-Shirt" went all the way to number one on the Billboard Canada Rock chart. The album helped win the band the 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year.

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