About Heather Gardner

Heather Gardner is a Toronto-based music supervisor (Vapor Music) who spends her days finding and licensing the best of the world’s music for television, film, advertising and video games/new media. By night, Heather can be found feverishly designing future homes on Pinterest, planning her next great theme park vacation, questing to find the best bubblegum ice cream, and relaxing with her hubby and cocker spaniel rescue, Gozer (yes, that is a Ghostbusters reference!).

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Currently Listening To: Lydia Ainsworth

Lydia Ainsworth‘s experimental pop sounds can only be described as magical.  The Toronto-based songstress has been making waves on the festival circuit, just finishing a series of showcases at CMJ and M for Montreal, and her debut release ‘Right from Real’ (released on Arbutus Records in September) has quickly become one of my favourite albums of 2014.

Listening to her music it is no surprise that she trained in film composition at both McGill and NYU — her songs are ethereal, cinematic, and breathtaking.

Torontonians, catch her at the Drake next Friday, December 5 supported by Digits.

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Video: “New York” by Milk & Bone

Montreal electro-pop duo Milk & Bone (Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin) craft ethereal soundscapes topped with sweet vocals, showcased in a world of black and white for their music video for “New York”.  These gals were one of my favourite performances last week at M for Montreal, and with their debut album set for release in early 2015 they are definitely an act to watch.

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Vaults – “Vultures”

For fans of Florence & The Machine, Banks, or London Grammar (who the band is currently supporting on tour), Vaults’ first track off their new EP is a piano-driven stunner of a pop song.  Simultaneously dreamy and grand, the tune is carried by lead singer Blythe Pepino’s haunting vocals.  This London-based trio is one band I will be keeping a close eye on in the coming months!

Catch them on their current UK tour, or join me in hoping for some North American dates in the new year.

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Willa – “Stay The Night”

Last week I had the pleasure of checking out the Vancouver Film Festival edition of Festival Music House, with performances by local acts (and some of my favourites) Damn Fools, Willa, Hannah Georgas and Bear Mountain.  I was particularly excited to see Willa after the release of her debut single “Stay The Night” earlier that week, a catchy dark electro-pop tune produced by Mother Mother‘s own Ryan Guldemond.

The song has been on repeat ever since, and after hearing her play live, I can’t wait to hear the rest of the tunes recorded.  Definitely one to watch!

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Video: “Say My Name (feat. Zyra)” by ODESZA

Saying that I’m obsessed with ODESZA‘s new record, ‘In Return,’ would be an understatement.  The whole album has been on constant repeat, but lead single “Say My Name (feat. Zyra)” (and its collection of remixes) has me swooning.

The official music video was released a few weeks ago, directed by Ian Pons Jewell and starring Stephanie Hunt as a commercial actress caught between reality and imagination.  “Say My Name (feat. Zyra)” is one of my favourite tunes this fall, without a doubt.

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