Each Tuesday and Sunday, Taylor rounds up this week’s best new music with the New Music Discovery Show. Here’s one of our favourites.

MONOWHALES – “CTRL^^^”

Toronto-based rockers MONOWHALES have returned with a blistering track called “CTRL^^^”. It is the lead single off the band’s forthcoming album, Tunnel Vision.

Frontwoman Sally Schaar explained that “This song is the aftermath of an epiphany. I was always afraid to admit that I like to be in control. At this point, I was ready to admit it and own it.” After moving to Canada when she was only 10 months old, “CTRL^^^” helped Shaar come to terms with her Syrian origin. “For the longest time, I was encouraged to be the most white Canadian person I could be because that’s what my parents told me success would come from. Now I feel like I want to take that back from them; to put my heritage in a positive light to show other immigrants that you can succeed on your own terms.”

Tunnel Vision will be released in the fall of 2022.

 

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