"Fairy Creek" single from 2021... a dream of protest in the rain forest.

Vinyl records for Love & Weather (2021) and Scrappy Art Rock (2018) are now ready to ship from Bandcamp or to stream on most platforms.
Love & Weather is an album of unusual rock music. Songs that are simple in form but complex in texture. They describe a world gone splendidly off the rails. This marks the first release of Unusual Music Exchange, an online library of interesting music.

On this and previous releases, Thorpe has collaborated with visual artists Angelica Mesiti, Mathew McWilliams, Ashes Withyman, Devon Knowles, Ian Wallace, Geoffrey Farmer, Renée Lear, Sandra Meigs, Trevor Shimizu, and Lily Ross-Millard. Watch for vinyl to be released in partnership with YYZ Artists Outlet and Dunlop Art Gallery, as well as an unusual series of programming around sound, music, and listening in spring 2021.

Love & Weather (2021) refers obliquely to the need for compassion in an exploding world. It also refers to the mundane but essential forces of the elements, intimacy, and the social. The album was recorded in Glasgow, UK, with Thorpe on voice, guitars, and keyboards; Rory Haye on bass VI; Owen Curtis Williams on drums. Recorded and mixed by Luigi Pasquini of Dystopia Glasgow.

Cover art by Australian Angelica Mesiti and music videos by Ashes Withyman, Mathew McWilliams, and Josh Thorpe (w/ footage by Devon Knowles), all with Vancouver roots of some kind.

Reviews and Press
Backseat Mafia album review 8.6/10

Clash Magazine online premieres the single 'Manhattan'. A nice little write up to read as well.

Interview in Fame Magazine.

Interview in the Fountain.
Scrappy Art Rock You Can Dance To (2018)
Support / buy album on Bandcamp. Or, available on the usual streaming platforms.

Voice and guitar: Josh Thorpe
Bass: Mike Overton
Drums: Jay Anderson

Recorded by Christopher Sandes

Cover image by Ian Wallace
Reviews:
"...dynamic tones and kinetic guitar-playing take us veering between moments of brightness and sheer oddness, joy, reflection. [Thorpe] makes us dwell in steady friction, then rewards us with a good crunchy solo."
-Maria Sledmere

"Gently swaying guitars and a warm, Lou Reed-like vocal...."
-Mike Mineo, Obscure Sound