I was cleaning out my home office over the weekend and filtering through about a thousand CDs that I'd been meaning to listen to but didn't for whatever reason. I was both excited and dismayed to discover Selina Martin's latest record, Disaster Fantasies, among the mountains of plastic in my house. Excited because I've long regarded Selina as one of the most intriguing songwriters in Toronto and I always look forward to hearing her newest stuff. I was dismayed because this album slipped through the cracks. I need an intern. In any case, all is well now because this excellent record is back on my radar and I get to share the first song from it with you now. It's called "Public Safety Management" and if it has a bit a of a manic Rheostatics tone to it, it could be because that's Martin Tielli playing guitar on it.
Selina Martin plays an early-ish show at the Tranzac (392 Brunswick) in Toronto on Wednesday February 16th.