After 20 Years of Recording Montreal, Breakglass Has a Label to Call Its Own

After decades of recording artists like Wolf Parade, Patrick Watson, and Kaytranada, Breakglass Studios launches its first imprint with a thirteen-artist roster.

ByThe Main

April 7, 2026 · 3 min read

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There's a certain... irony in Breakglass Studios launching a record label in 2026. The studio has spent two decades being the place where a lot of Montreal music we know and love today got and gets made: where Wolf Parade and Arcade Fire cut their teeth, where Patrick Watson recorded his breakthrough, where Kaytranada made a Grammy-winning record. For most of that time, the idea of a Breakglass imprint lived somewhere between "eventually" and "why hasn't this happened yet?"

"A lot of people had been asking me about it for years," says James Benjamin, co-owner and producer. "And maybe had given up on it."

They hadn't given up on it. On March 28, Breakglass officially launched Breakglass Records with a public party and a first wave of thirteen artists spanning club electronics, post-punk, ambient, experimental, and a Beaver Sheppard double LP that Benjamin promises will blow people away.

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