Reuben & The Dark Arms Of A Dream Arts & Crafts Anybody a bit more familiar with Calgary’s Ruben & The Dark has known them so far as just yet another set of [...]
Megan Bonnell Separate Rooms Cadence Music Group Three albums into her musical career and Megan Bonnell is ready to become a name that is recognizable beyond Canadian [...]
Dana Buoy Ice Glitter Gold Everloving Akron/Family are (were?) one of those bands from whose inception you were never on a sure ground. On record or live (even better), you [...]
Idiot Grins State Of Health Snug Harbor Records Harkening back to bygone musical times requires detailed musical knowledge and perception, but also a vision of what kind of sound [...]
The Flux Machine Hurricane Independent How do you mix a good cocktail that will pump you up, get you moving, jump around so that at one point you can simply drop? Usually, it means [...]
Dave Allen When The Demons Come Independent Dave Allen has released When the Demons Come, a stone cold brilliant album that absolutely should not become a tiny footnote of, in this [...]
Various Artists Stax Country Stax Records Would anyone have expected a country music album from the stalwart Southern soul label Stax? Nevertheless, while there is a history [...]
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights Matador Records Julien Baker’s new album Turn Out the Lights is emotionally disarming, as her talent as a songwriter/lyricist/singer makes [...]
Dirty Fences Goodbye Love Greenway Records You walk into a punk/heavy rock dive, you’re seriously craving a greasy burger and an even more seriously cold beer. Oh, and you want [...]
Little Coyote The Trouble With Teeth EggHunt Records Debut albums can be a tough affair, for the artists making them and for the listeners encountering an artist they are not [...]
Michael Nau The Load Suicide Squeeze Sometimes, no matter how good you are or how hard you try — or both — you just have an extremely hard time making it. It can be any [...]
Electric Youth Breathing Milan Records Sometimes it is hard not to pigeonhole a band based on its name. After all, the Toronto duo Austin Garrick and Bronwyn Griffin named their [...]
The Persian Leaps Bicycle Face EP Land Ski Records Everybody who thinks they have something to say about music at some point mentions originality. Sure, great, but what do [...]
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Echo Of Pleasure Painbow Records The fourth album by Kip Berman’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is called The Echo of Pleasure. The [...]
The Dan Ryan Guidance Cosmic Dreamer Some albums hit you straight away, right in your chest, feet, head, or all of those. Some, on the other hand are slow evolving affairs, unfolding [...]
My Favourite Things Fly I Will, Because I Can Independent You really have to be a bit cheeky to name your band My Favourite Things. This was one of the main themes from the [...]
John Murry A Short History Of Decay Latent Recordings Some artists suddenly crop up, come up with some brilliant music, get critical accolades, and then, as if there is an [...]
Pattern Language Total Squaresvielle Happy Robot Records What would be motorik in terms of music? I guess something to get you motorin’ down the Autobahn, or the open [...]
