Kestrels

This is a killer review of Better Wonder from The Big Takeover! Check it out. Close listening ally! Jack Rabid also listed us as one of the top 100 LPs of 2025. Link in comments. Check it out!

Kestrels - Better Wonder (Darla Records) On ‘Better Wonder,’ Kestrels sound like a band finally trusting the strange weather systems they’ve always circled. The album doesn’t just lean into shoegaze’s familiar pleasures of volume and blur; it uses them as tools to map a restless inner life. This is music that feels lived in after...

Our cover of Wham’s “Last Christmas” is once again seasonally appropriate! Recorded mostly out at my house in the country with some re-recorded drums in Toronto, this fuzzy ode to weird Christmas feelings is ready for your playlist. Find it wherever you stream music. I had fun doing 60s style guitar->fuzz->straight into the preamp during the outro. Masterfully mixed by at and masterfully mastered at . Find it wherever you stream or grab the download in your preferred format from Darla.com.

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Halifax show is imminent. November 8 at the Dartmouth Woodside Tavern with Ronny Howl (EP release on Noyes Records) and Everyone in Cars. Tickets available in the link! Fresh batch of shirts and vinyl ready to go. I even found some old sealed CDs if that’s your thing. See ya there!

Ronny Howl *EP Release* w/Kestrels and Everyone in Cars — Side Door Join Ronny Howl for the release of their new EP Hard to Please with special guests Kestrels and Everyone in Cars. Location: Woodside Tavern, 209 Pleasant St, Dartmouth Ronny Howl - https://ronnyhowl.bandcamp.com/ Kestrels - https://kestrels.bandcamp.com/ Everyone in Cars - https://everyoneincars.b