Clik here to view.
IF I LOOK STRONG; YOU LOOK STRONG
(SAY BAND NAME IN ROBOT VOICE), PINT SIZED RECORDS “Musical genius” is not a term to be thrown around lightly, but after being blown away by the natural creative energy in every consecutive release...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JOHNNY CASH
OUT AMONG THE STARS, SONY MUSIC CANADA/LEGACY RECORDINGS This is a rarity in the world of posthumous releases. Such works are most often collections of outtakes. In this case the album, as envisioned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
KALLE MATTSON
SOMEDAY THE MOON WILL BE GOLD, PARLIAMENT OF TREES While Ottawa-based artist Kalle Mattson may not have hit age 25, Someday the Moon Will Be Gold features songs peppered with pockmarked nostalgia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
KAMCHATKA
THE SEARCH GOES ON, DESPOTZ RECORDS Fried, not stirred — that’s how the Sweden’s rawest metal-fuck, Kamchatka, sears through brain and under the midnight sun, splits shipboards in the salty cabin of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LI’L ANDY
WHILE THE ENGINES BURN, SELF-RELEASED While the Engines Burn is pure Canadian country, through and through. Stories of turn-of-the-20th-century Canada and the struggles that came along with it are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LIVINGSTON
ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT FOLK SONGS OF CANADA, VOL. 1, LABEL FANTASTIC! It’s hard to write a song, as it involved the combination of two skills that take years to develop and then having to figure out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CHROMEO
WHITE WOMEN, LAST GANG RECORDS Chromeo return with their most polished and sexy LP to date. The beats are danceable, the synths are vintage and the hooks are sharp as ever. The vibe is unashamedly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW, UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Fresh off the press, one of the hottest mixes anywhere, North London’s cheer has erupted in the form of So Long, See You Tomorrow. Each and every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ASTRAL SWANS
“YOU CARRY A SICKNESS” B/W “PARK STREET”, MADIC RECORDS Matthew Swann is no stranger to the barren and haunting landscapes of tape hisses, drone groans and dissonant warbles, but where his previous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BADBADNOTGOOD
III, PIRATES BLEND BADBADNOTGOOD have certainly come a long way since 2011. While the band quickly made their name with reinterpretations of Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame, they were easily destined...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ELTON JOHN
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (RE-ISSUE), UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Those who did not grow up with Elton John streaming out of our stereo speakers may not know the feeling of rushing out to the record store...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FLOOR
OBLATION, SEASON OF MIST Despite 12 years between albums, not much has changed for Floor. While Oblation hardly feels like the logical continuation of 2004’s Dove, Floor find themselves comfortably...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FUCKED UP
YEAR OF THE DRAGON, TANKCRIMES 2011’s David Comes to Life brought Toronto hardcore outfit Fucked Up more international acclaim than ever before but, for those familiar with the band, it only affirmed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER
MIDNIGHT SUN, CHIMERA MUSIC My favourite thing about Sean Lennon’s latest album, Midnight Sun, is how he gives himself into romanticism and creates from this fantasy place that can hardly exist. It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JUSTIN RUTLEDGE
DAREDEVIL, OUTSIDE MUSIC It’s a feat when you can find a cover version of a song greater than, or even equal in greatness to, the original version. The very point of a cover song is to pay tribute to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LATCHO DROM
LATCHO DROM, SELF-RELEASED Latcho Drom are a three-piece indie-rock/post-hardcore band from Edmonton. While they’ve been active since 2011, despite a couple of releases with the “Everyone’s a Stupid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TUNE-YARDS
NIKKI NACK, 4AD After Merrill Garbus released her sophomore album, w h o k i l l, as tUnE-yArDs in 2011 and subsequently spent the majority of the following year touring in support of the record, she...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SHARON VAN ETTEN
ARE WE THERE, JAGJAGUWAR Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten returns to the fray with Are We There Yet, the delicate, bare and frustratingly question-mark-omitting follow-up to 2012’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FAILING
THE APPLE IN THE PIG’S MOUTH, SELF-RELEASED Vancouver’s Failing start their debut LP off with a blast, falling in line with their self-described aesthetic of ‘doom-laden noise’, but continued...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DEAD AIR
CHAMPION REMIX, WOLFSHEEP RECORDS This remix is one of the first releases from the new record label sub-branch of Victoria’s Wolf/Sheep Arthouse. For the last few years, Wolf/Sheep have been aiming to...
View Article