Fourteen years into the adventure, Dare To Care Records/Grosse Boîte has now reached a new milestone, with 100 releases under its belt! To mark the occasion, we are offering you the chance to be one of the 100 people who will win a Dare To Care/Grosse Boîte album of their choosing, in CD or digital format. To enter the contest, all you need is to share a good memory, experience or story related to any of our releases. Click here to participate, you have until Friday, February 13, 2015. The best stories will also be shared on our social networks.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

After releasing its first album in the spring of 2014, Fontarabie strikes back with Éclipses, a five-track EP where older material and new jams collide into a slightly more pop experiment. Éclipses lays the grounds for a musical transition, while pulling no punches when it comes to the unique and sometimes dark melodies that made Julien Mineau’s brand.

To stream Éclipses, click here.
To buy the digital album, click here.

Once again this year, the staff at Dare To Care Records/Grosse Boîte wishes to share with you their favorite albums to have come out this past year. For obvious reasons, we have decided to exclude from our lists the albums published under the Dare To Care or Grosse Boîte label.

Today we turn to our Booking team for their favorite albums of 2014

Julien (Booking Agent and General Manager)

Top 5 albums
1- Mac De Marco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
2- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata (Madlib Invazion)
3- Alvvays, Alvvays (Royal Mountain)
4- Black Atlass, Young Bloods (Fool's Gold)
5- Plaid, Reachy Prints (Warp)

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Les Appendices, "Michel a soif"

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Sonia (Booking agent)

Top 5 albums
1. Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator (Secret City Records)
2. Mac Demarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
3. Heat, Heat (indépendant)
4. Christine and The Queens, Chaleur Humaine (Because music)
5. Operators, EP1 (Last Gang Records)

*Honorable mention
Chvrches' album The Bones of What You Believe. It was released in 2013, but they played Osheaga this year so…

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The Barr Brothers, « Half Crazy »

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Étienne (Production Coordinator)

Top 5 albums
1. Ought, More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
2. Sun Kil Moon, Benji (Carlo Verde)
3. Sébastien Tellier, L’Aventura (Record Makers)
4. Last Ex, Last Ex (Constellation)
5. Katerine, Magnum (Barclay)

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Last Ex, « Girl Seizure »

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Marilou (Production Manager)

Top 5 albums---in no particular order
Groenland, The Chase (Bonsound)
Fred Pellerin, Plus tard qu'on pense (Disques Tempête)
Alexandre Désilets, Fancy Ghetto (Indica Records)
Serge Fiori, Fiori (GSI Musique)
The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator (Secret City Records)

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Alexandre Désilet, « Renégat »

Once again this year, the staff at Dare To Care Records/Grosse Boîte wishes to share with you their favorite albums to have come out this past year. For obvious reasons, we have decided to exclude from our lists the albums published under the Dare To Care or Grosse Boîte label.

Today we turn to our Label team for their favorite albums of 2014

Nathalie (Project Manager)

Top 5 albums
1 - Timber Timbre, Hot Dreams (Arts & Crafts)
2 - The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operators (Secret City)
3 - Lykke Li, I Never Learn (Warner)
4 - Mac Demarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
5- Alvvays, Alvvays (Royal Mountain)

Video
Philippe B, "Calorifère"

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Jeanne (Project Manager)

Top 5 albums
1. Amen Dunes, Love (Sacred Bones)
2. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
3. TOPS, Picture You Staring (Arbutus)
4. Mac Demarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
5. Philippe B., Ornithologie, la nuit (Bonsound)

*Honorable mentions
Released in November : Pom Pom de Ariel Pink et Heartleap de Vashti Bunyan

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TOPS, "Way To Be Loved"

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Gabrielle (Assistant Project Manager)

Top 5 albums
1. Hundred Waters, The moon rang like a bell (OWSLA)
2. Beck, Morning Phase (Capitol)
3. Philippe B., Ornithologie, la nuit (Bonsound)
4. Damien Rice, My Favorite Faded Fantasy (Warner Bors. Records)
5. Philémon Cimon, L'été (Audiogram)

*Honorable mention / video
Ólafur Arnalds's video for the song "Ljósið".  

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Jules (Intern deluxe)

Top 5 albums
1. Alaclair Ensemble, Toute est impossible (Indépendant)
2. Mac Demarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
3. Alvvays, Alvvays (Royal Mountain)
4. The Black Keys, Turn Blue (Nonesuch Records)
5. Run The Jewels, Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal Records)
 

Once again this year, the staff at Dare To Care Records/Grosse Boîte wishes to share with you their favorite albums to have come out this past year. For obvious reasons, we have decided to exclude from our lists the albums published under the Dare To Care or Grosse Boîte label.

Today we turn to our Accounting and Publishing team for their favorite albums of 2014.

Roseline (Publishing and Licensing Coordinator)

Top 5 albums
1. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
2. MØ, No Mythologies (RCA Victor)
3. Hurray For The Riff Raff, Small Town Heroes (ATO Records)
4. Secret Sun, Cold Coast (Bonsound)
5. Eman X VLooper, XXL (indépendant / Disques 7ième Ciel)

*Honorable mention
Beach House live at Théâtre Plaza, October 7, 2014

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, "St. Roch Blues" (live)

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Émily (Accountant)

Top 5 albums
1. Caribou, Our Love (City Slang)
2. Michel Cloup Duo, Minuit dans tes bras 
(Ici d'ailleurs)
3. Beck, Morning Phase 
(Capitol Records)
4. Antoine Corriveau, Les Ombres Longues 
(Abuzive Muzik / Coyote Records)
5. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness 
(Jagjaguwar Records)

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Antoine Corriveau, "La tête en marche"

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Julie (Accountant)

Top 5 albums
1. Ty Segall, Manipulator (Drag City)
2. Pypy, Pagan Day (Slovenly Records)
3. King Tuff, Black Moon Spell (SubPop)
4. Sonic Avenues, Mistakes (Dirtnap Records)
5. Philippe B, Ornithologie la nuit (Bonsound)

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Philémon Cimon, "Julie July"

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Once again this year, the staff at Dare To Care Records/Grosse Boîte wishes to share with you their favorite albums to have come out this past year. For obvious reasons, we have decided to exclude from our lists the albums published under the Dare To Care or Grosse Boîte label.

Today we turn to our Promotion team for their favorite albums of 2014.

Claudie (Press and Radio)

Top 5 Albums
1. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
2. Timber Timbre, Hot Dreams (Arts & Crafts)
3. Philémon Cimon, L’été (Audiogram)
4. Hundred Waters, The Moon Rang Like A Bell (OWSLA)
5. Banks, Goddess (Harvest Records)

*Honorable mentions
The songs "Tambours de guerre" by Géraldine and « De mon enfance » by Stéphanie Lapointe and Philémon Cimon, as well as the albums À la manière des anges by Mara Tremblay and LP1 by FKA Twigs

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Hundred Waters, « Murmurs »

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Marianne (Publicist)

Top 5 Albums
1. Likke Li, Youth Novels (Atlantic Records)
2. La Roux, Trouble in Paradise (Polydor LTD)
3. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
4. Philémon Cimon, L'été (Audiogram)
5. Christine and the Queens, Chaleur humaine (Because Music)

*Honorable mentions
Organ Mood live at POP Montréal, Posterz live at FME/M For Montreal, and Father John Misty cause he's so great!

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La Roux, "Kiss And Not Tell"

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Francis (Web Promotion)

Top 5 Albums
1. Philémon Cimon, L’été (Audiogram)
2. Jamie T, Carry On The Grudge (Virgin Records)
3. Bernhari, Bernhari (Audiogram)
4. The Gaslight Anthem, Get Hurt (Island Records)
5. Dumas, Dumas (La Tribu)

*Honorable mentions
Shout out to Montreal's PASSWORDS for their Foreign Pleasures EP and to Canada's legendary act Constantines for their reunion show in October.

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Jamie T, "Zombie"

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Florence (super Intern)

Top 5 Albums
1. The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator (Secret City Records)
2. Chet Faker, Built on Glass (Downtown Records)
3. Philémon Cimon, L'été (Audiogram)
4. Timber Timbre, Hot Dreams (Arts & Crafts Productions)
5. Misteur Valaire, Bellevue Avenue (Indica Records)

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Misteur Valaire, "Life Gets Brutal"